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Take Five With Billy Carrion Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Billy Carrion Jr: I've been around music since I was in my mother's womb. My dad-- singer, Billy Carrion Sr. --would play sounds of Batacumbele through headphones over my mom's belly. My first saxophone experience came at nine. After being taught to read and write, I started my musical journey. At 16, I was ...
Various Artists: Long Live Boogaloo: Rare Latin Boogaloos from Spanish Harlem 1963-'72
by Chris M. Slawecki
Long Live Boogaloo captures rare and sometimes underground Latin boogaloo, traditional Cuban music shot up like steroids with James Brown and other hard-driving R&B sounds, which emerged from Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, compiled by producer Bobby Marin for Secret Stash.Even if this Boogaloo can sometimes sounds anachronistic, it still sounds vibrant and alive. ...
From Britain to Boogaloo
by Chris M. Slawecki
Chris BarberMemories of My TripProper American Records2011 You will find very few jazz retrospectives more thoroughly, warmly inviting than Memories of My Trip, which celebrates six decades of recording and performing by one of Britain's most enduring traditional jazz musicians--trombonist, bassist and bandleader Chris Barber. ...
El Alquimista - The Alchemist
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Who Do I Trust; Not Good Enough; Reflection; The Truth Will Always Surface; My Patience; Por Si las Moscas, Roberto; Scorpion; El Indio; Shambala; El Alquimista.
El Alquimista (The Alchemist)
Label: Conde Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Jive State Suite: Who Do I Trust, Not Good Enough, Reflection, The Truth Will Always Surface,
My Patience; Por Si las Moscas, Roberto; Scorpion; El Indio; Shambala; El Alquimista.
Pete Rodriguez: El Alquimista (The Alchemist)
by Woodrow Wilkins
"Jive State Suite" sure is an attention getter. The introduction to the first track of Pete Rodriguez's El Alquimista (The Alchemist) makes clear this is an album with a difference. Rodriguez, a trumpeter, vocalist and composer, has performed with a virtual who's who of Latin music, as well as other styles. Among his ...
Pete Rodriguez: El Alquimista - The Alchemist
by Edward Blanco
Puerto Rican trumpet wonder Pete Rodriguez blends his style of Latin music with a modern jazz sound, forging an impressive musical statement on El Alquimista - The Alchemist, his third album as leader. Serving as a sideman on many other recordings, performing with some of the best Latin jazz artists in the business including Eddie Palmieri, ...
