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Carlos Bernardo: Agua Nova
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Agua Nova is Portuguese for “New Water." The aqueous motif is not plain rubric as this album does model Carlos Bernardo's flowing musical stringed ways. His ways, conversely, are innovative.Bernardo, using a combination of diverse string instruments, offers the listener ten flowingly melodic, harmoniously strong, and cleverly conceived encounters. All the cuts reveal a ...
Babatunde Lea: Soul Pools
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: An energetic and refreshing Latin Jazz dousing.... Heavily traversing along Latin jazz mainstream tributaries, Soul Pools is a creditable recording, intermingling refreshed takes on various percussive modalities and rhythms with jazz inflow dynamics. Babatunde Lea gathered a strong contingent for this recording. It starts off with a ...
Ron Carter: Stardust
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Oscar Pettiford would’ve loved itï The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet, a 1953 Leonard Feather production, featured Pettiford’s “Tamalpais Love Song.” Ron Carter –his own man when incorporating varying nuances of equal multiplicity of origins to his work– proves a manly man at the outset of Stardust. In “Tamalpais,” we ...
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by Javier AQ Ortiz
If Star Trek’s Data were to research violinists for a Jazz concert presentation at the Enterprise, featuring him on violin and Number 1 on trombone, Stéphane Grappelli: A Life in the Jazz Century would be his main source of information. Grappelli lived and shaped the Jazz century; hence, the need to seriously consider his ...
Carmen Lundy & University of Miami Concert Jazz Band
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Carmen Lundy & University of Miami Concert Jazz Band Saturday, January 25, 2003 8:00 p.m. Maurice Gusman Concert Hall Coral Gables Campus Program presented with the support of WDNA 88.9 FM . Carmen Lundy established herself outside her hometown. There isn’t enough ground swelling in ...
Afro Blue Band: Impressions
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Free range testosterone jazz high.... When it was released, much was expected from this album given the talent on the recording. Such prospects were understandably imposed on Impressions. Heavy expectations come with talent and fame. Surely, every fan can come up with examples of jazz notables who failed to ...
Julito Alvarado del Sur al Norte: Changing Routes
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Jazz picked at its peak in the sun-drenched tropics: sweet, juicy, and bursting with flavor. Changing Routes is the first production from the Puerto Rican group Julito Alvarado del Sur al Norte. It features eight compositions by Alvarado, as well as his distinctive takes on Coltrane’s “Mr. P.C.” ...
Steve Tibbetts: A Man About A Horse
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Soothes and suits both emotion and reason'The oddly metered musical strands hailing from Central Asia, India and its adjoining regions are vital for jazz's lore and lure. Conjoined with music from the West, their enchanting, enthralling, and percussively melodic possibilities unwrap exotic gifts of expression and improvisation. Upon listening ...
Mas Cabeza: E=Mas Cabeza2
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: If you are into heavy Latin Jazz, steer clear; otherwise, at least check the fun they have.... Nature is stratified; therefore human endeavors are too. When applied to music, such geographically informed perspectives yield somewhat novel ways of approaching things. Take the case of the Spanish-named Bay Area group ...
Gabriel Szternsztejn: A Different Kind of Fusion
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Researching a project for Jazz in Norway, Gabriel Szternsztejn--an Argentinean guitarist living in Spain--appeared featured on a Norwegian website. He is a musician's musician, with a singular compositional voice and a varied conceptual--as well as experiential--background.AAJ Contributor Javier Antonio Quiñones Ortiz spoke with Szternsztejn about his music and self-titled release. ...
