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Juan Manuel: Reunion 2000
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist Juan Manuel follows up Liberation with a new collection of original compositions further delving into the Latin sensibilities in music.
Juan Manuel epitomizes smooth, Latin-tinged contemporary jazz. His debut, Liberation, established the classically-trained guitarist as a heavy hitter in the realm of Latin Jazz. It contained all original compositions that smacked of swing and sly invention. Manuel further promotes this inventive swing on Reunion 2000, a collection of original compositions performed by his long time associates and featuring the ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
An Embarrassment of Six String Riches. September was a good month for new guitar music. Two fine jazz-crossover guitar discs hit my desk and both proved to be filled with quite fine and recommendable music. Juan Manuel and Jack Jezzro each turn in original collections of contemporary Latin jazz.
Rocket Science. Juan Manuel, NASA Engineer/Professional Musician/Renaissance Man, offers a contemporary acoustic and electric guitar jazz collection that is both smart and infectious. He is ably backed by saxophone, piano bass, ...
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