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Jamie Dubberly

Chris Trinidad: Chris Trinidad's Changing Tides

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 6, 2022

During the course of 2021's lockdowns and distancing, music educator and bassist Chris Trinidad began to wonder if technology was bringing people together or keeping people apart. During these reflections, he reengaged with music he had written years earlier, for a release he titled Certain Times (Iridium, 2014). “The compositions on that album were written in ...

Monsters from the Jazzlab

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 17, 2022

Rodrigo Almonte Distancia Odradek Records 2021 “Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical ...

Chris Trinidad's Changing Tides

By Chris Trinidad

Label: Iridium Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Inevitable Evolution; Something New In The Familiar; The Benefit of Hindsight; Finding Somewhere Forever; A Reading in Retrospect; Transcending December; Though Certainly Speaking.

Chris Trinidad: Chris Trinidad's Changing Tides

by Mark Sullivan
December 29, 2021

Bassist and composer Chris Trinidad released the quartet album Chris Trinidad's Certain Times (Iridium Records, 2015) five years after relocating from Vancouver to the San Francisco Bay area. The compositions were constructed from an assortment of sketches, built on grooves and simple harmonies to give the soloists freedom. For Chris Trinidad Y Con Todo (Iridium Records, ...

Pacific Mambo Orchestra: The III Side

by Dan Bilawsky
June 12, 2020

Pacific Mambo Orchestra—PMO, for short—has a lot to celebrate. With the calendar turning to 2020, this Grammy-winning Latin big band celebrated its 10th anniversary and the early January release of this potent third album. Inviting special guests, strings and part-time personnel to the party, PMO uses this opportunity to craft a spicy stew seasoned with Mambo, ...

Brian Andres & the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel: This Could Be That

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 2, 2016

This Could Be That celebrates the first decade of Brian Andres & his Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, which came together in 2007 in and around the jny: San Francisco Bay Area's Latin jazz hothouse. Music is sort of the Andres' family business: Brian's father Mike, a professional woodwind player from the jny: Cincinnati area (who appears on ...

Artistry in Rhythm: Afro-Cuban Epiphany to Haitian Voodoo

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 29, 2016

Brian Andres & the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel This Could Be That Self-Produced 2016 This Could Be That celebrates the first decade of Brian Andres & his Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, which came together in 2007 in and around the jny: San Francisco Bay Area's Latin jazz hothouse. Music ...

La Clave Del Gumbo

By Jamie Dubberly

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Jazzy; Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing; La Esencia Del Guaguanco; West Side Story; Mambo Pacific; Soul Provider; Sonando; It Ain't My Fault; I Don't Need Nobody Else.

Jamie Dubberly & Orquesta Dharma: La Clave Del Gumbo

by Dan Bilawsky
August 10, 2014

Many performances come and go without fanfare for the musician(s), but a rare few are transformative, reshaping the artist's perspective and direction. California-based trombonist Jamie Dubberly had one such experience when his Latin jazz group shared a bill with a New Orleans-style brass band. Dubberly decided to bring both ensembles together to close the show, putting ...