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Jose Duque's Zumbatres: Far Away

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 5, 2007

Venezuelan-born, Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based drummer/percussionist Jose Duque leads Zumbatres, a band that doesn't read like a Latin jazz band (and certainly not one from south of the border), for his second album, Far Away , but indeed they sound like one. There is some talk in the liners about the blending of borders insofar as crossing boundaries (e.g. Venezuelan Latin music) and other brands of the genre from Central and South America, but frankly I don't hear it. Latin jazz ...