Jazz Articles about José Lugo

Jos: Piano Con Mata

by Javier AQ Ortiz
January 2, 2003

Quick and to the Point: Youthful jazz vigor penned with broad strokes of good-humored Puerto Rican musical acumen...

José Lugo pops his cherry as a leader on Piano con mata and it is tight! This is a novel voice in jazz, Latin at that, with enough playing, producing, composing and arranging to keep listeners tuned in.

At the very outset of the recording, much of Lugo's style is clearly established. The temper of the production, its ...