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Dafnis Prieto Sextet

Dafnis Prieto Sextet: Transparency

by John Chacona
November 21, 2020

In Cuban music, emotional grandeur and extravagant virtuosity is built on a foundation of inexhaustible rhythm. So, it's no surprise to find an abundance of juicy melodies and breathtaking drumming on Transparency from drummer and MacArthur “Genius" Fellow Dafnis Prieto. Yet for all the astonishing things he does behind the kit, what stands out ...

Triangles and Circles

By Dafnis Prieto Sextet

Label: Dafnison Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: Back and Forth; Triangles and Circles; Flores; The Evil in You; Blah Blah Blah; Blah Blah; Two for One; Opening.

Dafnis Prieto Sextet: Triangles and Circles

by Dave Wayne
June 3, 2015

The thing that sets Latin jazz apart from other forms of jazz is that it's fundamentally a music for dance. The artists who create this music are expected to move gracefully back and forth between the worlds of jazz and salsa, sometimes in a single tune. Though it's overtly intended to get our bodies moving, Latin ...

Dafnis Prieto Sextet: Taking the Soul for a Walk

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 22, 2008

It's been almost a decade since drummer/percussionist/composer and arranger Dafnis Prieto came to New York from his native Cuba. Taking The Soul For A Walk is his third album and the first for his own label, Dafnison. Before adventuring on his own, Prieto spent a period working in a variety of jazz subgenres; which include latin ...

Dafnis Prieto Sextet: Taking the Soul for a Walk

by Troy Collins
April 29, 2008

Since his arrival in New York in 1999, Cuban born drummer Dafnis Prieto has established himself as a prized sideman, having served alongside Latin jazz masters like Michel Camillo, Eddie Palmieri and Chucho Valdez, as well as modernists like Don Byron, Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill. His first album on his own ...