Jazz Articles about Snowboy

Snowboy and the Latin Section: New York Afternoon

by Phil Barnes
April 21, 2016

The pervasive myths of New York are of a whole different order to those of just about any other world city. If 'Swinging London' ever existed before the offshore 'investors' moved in, it was long ago reduced, as the Clash put it, to the 'ring of that truncheon thing,' yet New York has somehow kept its mystique. Perhaps it's just a whole different level of myth, an Instagram filter on a rose tinted memory of a construction learned from beloved ...

Snowboy and the Latin Section: Afro Cuban Jazz

by Jim Santella
July 1, 2000

Snowboy, who has recorded nine albums with his band The Latin Section, combines an acid jazz texture with traditional Afro-Cuban chants and rhythms. Using a basic call & response format atop lively rhythms, the leader colors his performance with Fender Rhodes and Hammond Organ timbres. The result is a hot dance affair that’s anchored by Snowboy’s congas and remains within the tradition.

Which tradition? Snowboy fuses several. Centuries-old chants and rhythms provide a link to the music’s earliest roots. The ...