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Charles Flores: Impressions Of Graffiti
By Track review of "Street Walk"Other than his leadership roles, jazz and jazz-fusion guitar hero Wayne Krantz lends his wares on two tracks and lights a firestorm on "Street Walk," where Flores broadly underscores the medium-tempo in-the-pocket motif, spiked with odd-metered unison runs, alternating flows and scorching breakouts. Krantz dishes out a rather animated search and conquer mission, tinted with high-strung blues lines and engineered with climactic overtures. The band tenders conflicting metrics, where burly momentum breaks out into fluent excursions. At times Flores' pliant bottom along with drummer Cliff Almond's polyrhythmic flurries spawns a barnstorming outlook, subsided on a clement note via Elio Villafranca's unassuming synth passage, leading to the finale.
Even though the album is marked by sad circumstances, this celebratory rendezvous gains additional steam on repeated listens, serving as a testament to Flores' unwavering devotion to his craft.
Track Listing
Impressions Of Graffiti; Gentle Words; Street Walk; Broken Image; Carlito's Way; Driving Through; Miriam; Influence; The Whole Train; Back On The Wall; Persecusion.
Personnel
Charles Flores
bassCharles Flores: bass; Elio Villafranca: piano, keyboards; Richard Padron: guitar; Cliff Almond: drums; Wayne Krantz: guitar (3, 6); Manuel Valera: keyboards (9), percussion programming.
Album information
Title: Impressions Of Graffiti | Year Released: 2013 | Record Label: Dafnison Music
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