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Peter Furlan: Spy Glass Hill
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Tight and steady debut with fat band tracks and smaller ensemble playing. Featuring Eddie Palmieri’s jazz octet trumpeter Brian Lynch as well as Andrew Beals on alto sax, Peter Furlan’s New York love affair with the Caribbean is evident in the ambitious mambo big band arrangement for the 14-member ...
Puerto Rican Batrachians: El Hermoso Cantar del Coqu
by Javier AQ Ortiz
It is literally impossible to understand many Puerto Rican musical streams unless one is familiar with the songs of the 16 Eleutherodactylus species there. Two of them – Eleutherodactylus portoricensi and Eleutherodactylus coquí – emit a recurring percussive song, from whence derives the popular name. The former frog is endemic only in Puerto Rico and it ...
Kenny Dorham: Afro-Cuban
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: An ageless recording of true historical import in all matters Latin and Jazz. Several basic and rather obvious reasons to check out this recording: 1. It is one of the earliest well-informed, conceived and arranged mergers of jazz and Afro- Cuban musical idioms. 2. ...
Gino Sitson: Song Zin
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: African jazzistic vocal lusciousness. Although seldom fully appreciated, musical expressions often evidence a remarkable bond with the cadences, inflections, harmonic and melodic character of the languages spoken by their producers and interpreters. Africa’s premiere position amid the world’s rhythmic bequest, for example, is not merely coincidental. Many African ...
Charlie Miller: Peace Horn From New Orleans
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: 11 on a trumpet and 2 on a flute, in a New Orleans state of mind. During the '70s, multi-instrumentalist Charlie Miller was in New York playing salsa and jazz. The most important thing, however, was the heightening of his learning curve already well tempered by his rearing in ...
Don Wilner: Mysterious Beauty
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Elegantly classy, swinging affair. There is little mystery to the beauty of Mysterious Beauty. Easy instructions for home assembly of this recording follow graceful compositions of proven caliber. The repertoire includes materials from Porgy and Bess, Carmen, an all too brief Charlie Parker tune, “Danny Boy,” Brazilian music, a ...
FBVD: Hear Me Yell!
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Free jazz with a feminist bite. Under the sponsorship of the National Association for Womanhood, the Berkeley-based Californian Musical Institute, granted funds for “musical works that probe contemporary intellectual achievements by women and/or are inspired by a full-figured feminist perspective.” Hear Me Yell! by the Full-figured Brass Vagina Dentata ...
Bix Beiderbecke: Bix and Pops Lost Cannabis Sessions
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Not even the French can bake like Pops and Beiderbecke baked together. Unbeknownst to Ralph Barton, his literary foray into Bix Beiderbecke’s life would take almost 30 years to unearth a rather mysterious jazz tale. Back in 1974, Barton wrote Remembering Bix, where he repeatedly relays information about Bix’s ...
The Taubes: The Peace Album
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: A peacefully strong political statement from unlikely musical sources . Awash amidst the war news, The Peace Album by The Taubes –or Doves of War– has not attracted much attention in the media. Nevertheless, one of the stated goals of The Peace Through Strength Foundation of North America –a ...
Hoffman/Alicea/Vicuta: Channeling Adorno on Jazz
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Vocal recording of a Jazz related séance seeking to contact dead scholar Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno. Europe’s answer to John Edwards is Mrs. Gaviria Vicuta. “Verrücktes Gespräch mit den Toten,” her popular German TV program, has been translated into 13 languages. One significant difference between Mrs. Vicuta and Mr. Edwards, ...
