Jazz Articles about Willie Villegas

Willie Villegas y Entre Amigos: Dancer's Paradise

by Javier AQ Ortiz
October 9, 2003

Quick and to the Point: Hard charging Salsa--la Manny Oquendo, Willie Colon, La Perfectaï .

Evolution favors those with better mutative luck and improved capacity for adaptation. Musical matters are no exception. Whereas some musical organisms seek survival in newness, others dig into the familiarity of established repertoires, styles and aesthetics with the same purpose in mind. Dancer's Paradise belongs squarely in the latter category. Even the title of the release seems to be derived from Luis “Perico ...