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Bobby Sanabria / Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Kenya Revisited Live!!!

Read "Kenya Revisited Live!!!" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 9, 2009

In 1957, Cuban band leader, singer and composer Francisco Raul Gutierrez Grillo de Ayala, AKA “Machito," his Afro-Cuban big band, along with co-founder Mario Bauza, Cannonball Adderley and Basie trumpeter Joe Newman, released an album titled Kenya (Roulette), which, at the time, became instrumental in launching the Afro-Cuban or Latin jazz genre. Multiple Grammy nominee Bobby ...

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Bobby Sanabria / Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Kenya Revisited Live !!!

Read "Kenya Revisited Live !!!" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
May 7, 2009

A full horn section combined with an ensemble of percussionists usually means one thing: Afro-Cuban jazz. Conductor Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra capture the essence of this style of music by paying tribute to a landmark recording.Kenya Revisited Live!!!, originally recorded in 1957 by Machito and his Afro-Cubans, ...

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Lua e Sol

By Mark Weinstein

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Canto de Ossanha; Estrelinha; Floresta; Isaura; Choro da Gafiera; Lua e Sol; Emorio; Segura Ele; Pra Machuchar Meu Coracao; Upa Negrinho.

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Straight No Chaser

By Mark Weinstein

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Loverin'; Miyake; Blues For Janice; Airegin; Shanti; Sleeping Beauty; Invitation; Violets For Your Furs; Straight,No Chaser; Crianza.

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The Birth of Hip Bop

By Too Blue Lou

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Never Gonna Give Up; Nardis; Hip Bop & Scappy; Groove One for Fun; That Situation; Stella By Starlight; Ode to Knee Deep; Blue in Green.

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Con Alma

By Mark Weinstein

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Santi's Africaleidescope; Broadway Local; Con Alma; Crescent; Fee Fi Fo Fum; Evidence; La Coneja Loca; Gotcha; Soul-Leo; Monte Adentro; Stella by Starlight.

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Straight, No Chaser

By Mark Weinstein

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Loverin'; Miyako; Blues for Janice; Airegin; Shanti; Sleeping Beauty; Invitation; Violets for Your Furs; Straight, No Chaser; Crianza.

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Mandala

By Oleg Kireyev

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Mandala; Ai ya Haiya; Zhok; Lullaby; East.

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Nordic Disruption

By NYNDK

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Histrionics; Great Expectations; Backward Glance; Nordic Disruption; Blade Runner; Derivative; Brooklyn; I Hear a Rhapsody; Elefantens Vuggeviser (The Elephant

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Mark Weinstein: Lua e Sol

Read "Lua e Sol" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
December 24, 2008

It's fitting that flautist Herbie Mann is one of the luminaries who have led bands that included Mark Weinstein. Among his many attributes, Mann had a special way of bringing Brazilian music into his repertoire, and Weinstein does the same here with Lua e Sol.Weinstein began his career as a trombonist, and was associated ...