Jazz Articles about Layla Angulo

Layla Angulo: Live At The Triple Door

by Jerry D'Souza
December 15, 2005

Layla Angulo brought her brand of Afro-Peruvian rhythms and jazz to the Triple Door in Seattle for this set, which turns out to be an entertaining one. Angulo wrote all the music except for “Muñeca, a Eddie Palmieri composition. The band is tight and can essay ideas that please and also work on long jams.

One of the most sparkling tunes is “La Rumbera, which has a lot going for it in the seamless lines of the horns, ...