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Just A Little Bit Crazy
By Joyce Moreno
Label: Blue Jackel
Released: 2004
Track listing: A Banda Maluca, Chuvisco, Os Medos, Na Paz, Samba do Joyce, For Hall, L'Etang, Galope, A Hard Day's Night, Cartomante, Mal Em Paris, Pause, Bitte, Tufao
Joyce: Just A Little Bit Crazy
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The late, great Elis Regina was the first major artist to record Joyce's songs, and there are some similarities in their approach: both are honest, passionate, fluid and pitch-perfect, with a minimum of vocal pyrotechnics and often the distinct sound of a smile. While delivering the sultry and sunny sambas the world has come to expect ...
William Cepeda and Afrorican JazzGrupo AfroBoricua: Bombazo
by Eric Saidel
This CD represents William Cepeda's attempt to educate us in the ways and rhythms of the music of his native Puerto Rico. The music is based in the drums and rhythms brought to Puerto Rico as a consequence of the African slave trade. The melody instruments are, for the most part, limited to the voices of ...
William Cepeda and Afrorican Jazz: My Roots & Beyond
by Eric Saidel
William Cepeda is a man with a mission. His goal is aptly given by the title of his cd, his debut as a leader. He wants to introduce us to the music of his roots and beyond. Cepeda takes the rhythms, the dances, of Puerto Rican music, and uses them as the basis for Jazz. As ...
Grupo Afro-Boricua: Bombazo
by AAJ Staff
William Cepeda is a man on a mission. For some time the trombonist for the United Nation Orchestra has stressed the music of Puerto Rico, so we do not forget its contribution to the Latin sound. His album Afrorican Jazz: My Roots and Beyond put a big band atop bomba drums and “versa negro” chanting (Capeda ...
Grupo Afro Boricua: Bombazo
by Jack Bowers
Dizzy Gillespie would have loved this. No Jazz to speak of, at least as we normally employ the term, but an abundance of captivating and colorful Latin rhythms from Puerto Rico, home of Grupo Afro Boricua and its director, William Cepeda. Grupo Afro, it says in the liner notes, is a leading exponent of Puerto Rico’s ...