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Article: Album Review

Johnny Conga: Breaking Skin

Read "Breaking Skin" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 7, 2009

Johnny Conga comes from a long line of illustrious tumbadora (conga) players. From the musical evidence on Breaking Skin, this genealogy may begin with the likes of Chano Pozo, Mongo Santamaria, Tata Guines, Candido, Armando Peraza and Francisco Aguabella. Lest there be a scream of “blasphemy," it bears mention that Conga stylistically connects the ancient with ...

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Article: Highly Opinionated

Why George Russell Will Always Live in Time

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 10, 2009

A measure of just how underrated a musician he was in his lifetime is reflected in the fact that even three days after he passed on most of the major publications had not even reported his death, much less celebrated his life in the glowing terms that he so richly deserved. Perhaps this was because oddly ...

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Article: Interview

Arturo O'Farrill: Upholding the Latin Tinge

by R.J. DeLuke
June 22, 2009

Arturo O'Farrill, an extraordinary pianist, admits he came out of the bebop school of playing, a Bud Powell disciple, and his strong chops would attest to that. He didn't pursue the music of his father—the great Chico O'Farrill—in his younger days, but he came upon it as he studied the music. He came to not only ...

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Daniel Sadownick: There Will Be a Day

Read "There Will Be a Day" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
May 6, 2009

Granted this is an oversimplification, but modern Latin jazz was created when percussionist Chano Pozo and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie got together in NYC in the late '40s. While percussionist Daniel Sadownick's sense of history is acute on this debut--witness his use of an excerpt from Pozo's “Rumba En Swing" on the catchy solo percussion opener “Dedication"--he ...

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