Jazz Articles about Edwin Bonilla

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Edwin Bonilla: Homenaje a los Rumberos

by Javier AQ Ortiz
November 6, 2010

Homenaje a los Rumberos is a hyper-swinging and high-octane danceable salsa recording by Edwin Bonilla, that truly takes dancers as its true North. Bonilla, who keeps an awfully busy schedule performing and working as a first-call studio percussionist for quite a broad assortment of groups and figures, became a darling of the international salsa DJ scene with his penchant for hardcore, get-down-and-dirty productions under his name. This is the type of music popularly referred to in Spanish as capable of ...

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Edwin Bonilla: Pa

by Javier AQ Ortiz
July 18, 2004

Edwin Bonilla Pa' La Calle SAR/Guajiro 2004

Pa' la calle, as its preceding two productions for the SAR/Guajiro label, was minutely conceived for the international dancing community and those who cater to them. The majority of DJs in dance clubs, from Israel to Hong Kong, will once more enjoy what Arturo Gómez Cruz of Denver's KUVO 89.3 FM calls “happy music for dancing feet. Indeed, that's what they have been doing with ...

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Edwin Bonilla: Edwin y su Son

by Javier AQ Ortiz
March 1, 2002

The betting kind would be wise to put their money on the fascinating results of a study of the neurological effects of music such as this. Indeed, captive audiences throughout Europe, Japan, the Americas and Africa have experienced a matchless neural realignment after listening to this album. A French Canadian television special, honoring Benny Moré, featured some of the music of this recording live on the air with Bonilla accompanied by local musicians in Quebec. France also enjoyed this program ...