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Joe Syrian: Secret Message

by Richard J Salvucci
A title like Secret Message does make a listener wonder what it might be. Is it deeply subversive, like the Zimmerman Telegram, or apocalyptic, like Fatima? Of course, as someone is reputed to have said, 'Sometimes, a cigar is just a smoke.' So it is possible to over-interpret a title, which may, in the final analysis, ...
Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero

by Richard J Salvucci
In Cuban Spanish (and, for sure, there is no generic Spanish in Latin America), vacilón means, well, one hell of a good time. And that is what you can expect from this punchy collection, a great time a la Santiago de Cuba, the capital of one of Cuba's southeastern provinces. It is the land of Bacardí ...
Vacilón Santiaguero

By Kiki Valera
Label: Circle 9 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Este Vacilón; El Ají de Cocina; Sobre una Tumba una Rumba; El Penquito e’ Coleto; Funfuñando; La Guajira; Mari-Juana; Muñequita Feliz; El Empanadillero; Pájaro Lindo; Dos Gardenias; El Cuarto de Tula.
Vacilón Santiaguero

By Kiki Valera
Label: Circle 9 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Este Vacilón; El Ají de Cocina; Sobre una Tumba una Rumba; El Penquito e’ Coleto; Funfuñando;
La Guajira; Mari-Juana; Muñequita Feliz; El Empanadillero; Pájaro Lindo; Dos Gardenias; El Cuarto
de Tula.
Secret Message

By Joe Syrian
Label: Circle 9 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bye Bye Blackbird; Star Eyes; People Make the World Go Round; Here, There and Everywhere;
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing; This Masquerade; Night and Day; I Should Care.
Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: Secret Message

by Jack Bowers
No fuss, no frills here, simply forty-seven or so minutes of generally bright and engaging straight-ahead jazz, stylishly performed by drummer Joe Syrian's admirable Detroit-based octet. This is music the group plays often, blending standards from the Great American Songbook with more recent themes by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Leon Russell and others. ...
Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero

by Paul Rauch
Son Cubano, the music and dance from the hill country of eastern Cuba, may be a mystery to some readers of these pages. Though the form is rooted in both Spanish and Bantu traditions, its modern day practitioners, embodied and popularized by the music of Buena Vista Social Club, have broadened the music's view. In the ...
Makram

By Joe Locke
Label: Circle 9 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Love For Sale; Raise Heaven (For Roy); Makram; Elegy For Us All; Tushkin; Shifting Moon; Song For Vic Juris; Interwoven Hues; Lush Life.
Joe Locke: Makram

by Neil Duggan
One of the leading vibraphone specialists of the 21st century, Joe Locke has won multiple awards and performed with artists as diverse as the Beastie Boys and Ron Carter. It's not just his musicianship on the vibraphone that sets him apart. He is a highly versatile arranger, incorporating soul and international influences. Named after the Lebanese ...