Jazz Articles about Imer Santiago

Imer Santiago: Hidden Journey

by Hrayr Attarian
November 29, 2013

Nashville based trumpeter Imer Santiago's debut album Hidden Journey is an engaging, diverse set of nine originals and two standards, that maintains its momentum from the first note to the last. Santiago's compositions sometimes in collaboration with saxophonist and label founder Rahsaan Barber are primarily hard bop vehicles with a variety of flavors that allow the individual musicians space for short yet crisp and elegant expressions of spontaneity. The opening tune “Girls' Night Out" harks back to the ...