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Bobby Sanabria: Vox Humana
by Cary Tenenbaum
The opening track on Vox Humana could easily have been the encore of this live performance recorded at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, part of Jazz At Lincoln Center in New York City. It is a rousing version of the Duke Ellington crowd pleaser Caravan" and a boisterous Latin tinged big band version it is, with Matthew Gonzalez's barril de bomba and requinto pandereta, bandleader and drummer Sanabria and others on congas, bongos and bells prominently leading the percussionists and portending ...
read moreArturo O'Farrill: Four Questions
by Jerome Wilson
Surprisingly this set marks the first time Arturo O'Farrill has recorded a set of solely his own compositions. It was worth the wait because this music, played by his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, really demonstrates the cinematic sweep and variety of his writing. The set is constructed around two topical extended works. The first, Four Questions," is based on four questions about the struggle for human rights and personal dignity first posed by African-American author W.E.B. DuBois in ...
read moreArturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Four Questions
by Jack Bowers
The Four Questions addressed by composer / pianist Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra on its latest album were first posed in 1903 by W.E.B. DuBois in his book The Souls of Black Folk and are answered herein by the esteemed educator / historian / social activist Dr. Cornel West. For the record, the questions are what does integrity do in the face of adversity and oppression, what does honesty do in the face of lies and deception, what does ...
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Contemporary Insanity
From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 3:...By David DeJesus
Eleanor Rigby (remastered)
From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 2:...By David DeJesus
God Bless the Child
From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 2:...By David DeJesus
Fusion of Minds
From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Volume...By David DeJesus
I Wanna Fly
From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Volume...By David DeJesus
Frankenfanny
From: Best of Tobin Mueller, Volume...By David DeJesus
Birdland Runaround
From: PrestidigitationBy David DeJesus
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
From: PrestidigitationBy David DeJesus
Giant Steps
From: PrestidigitationBy David DeJesus
Watermelon Man
From: PrestidigitationBy David DeJesus