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Nachito Herrera: Live at the Dakota 2
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
This 2003 date by pianist Nachito Herrera, a veteran of both the Cubanismo group and an idiosyncratic migration from Havana to Minneapolis, is his second live record from the Dakota, located in his adopted hometown. This time around, the large-group format of the first live disc gives way to a smaller ensemble.
Herrera's group masters the dynamic contrasts at the heart of Latin jazz. One motif is turning up the volume for the climatic resolution of repetitive themes; the opening ...
read moreNachito Herrera: Bemb
by Chris May
Nachito Herrera conceived this recording as an exposition of eleven different Cuban song forms--from bolero and cha-cha-cha through guaracha and guanguanco, with a strong admixture of jazz throughout--but any danger of Bembé En Mi Casa coming on like a college lecture disappears with track one, note one. A campus riot would be a more accurate description. Like the title track says, Party at mine!" The music starts out hot and passionate and stays that way, with only brief pauses for ...
read moreNational Debut Release by Former ¡Cubanísmo! Bandleader and Pianist, Nachito Herrera, BEMBÉ EN MI CASA
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All About Jazz
This album is a wonderland of musica cubana and a must if you love the piano stylings of Peruchin, Lili Martinez and Frank Emilio Flynn, other pianists with the candela (flame) to turn ice into water." - Jesse Chuy" Varela, Latin Beat
In the past decade, Cuba reminded the world once again, as it has done frequently since the rumba rage of the 1930s and the mambo era of the post World War II years, that this small ...
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