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Joseph Diamond: Island Garden

by Javier AQ Ortiz
August 1, 2002

Quick and to the Point : Safe Latin jazz album that dips on several related musical genres.

Island Garden is the latest production from pianist Joseph Diamond where he continues his Latin jazz ventures after his debut as leader in Not Your Typical New Yorker. Diamond is a fine pianist with amicable and familiar compositional and arranging ideas, stemming from Diamond’s similar style of playing. He dwells mostly in radio friendly and danceable material rather than abstract ...