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Incantations Encantaciones
Label: Pimienta Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Oguere?s Cha (E. Villafranca) 2. El Hombre (P. Martino) 3. Encantaciones Cubanas (E.
Villafranca) 4. Assumption (E. Villafranca) 5. Negrita Prende la Vela (L. Berm?dez) 6. Cacique (E.
Villafranca) 7. You Spoke Too Soon (E. Villafranca) 8. Something Nice to Say About You (E.
Villafranca) 9. Orishaoko (E. Villafranca) 10. It?s Not That Serious (E. Villafranca)
Big Band Time
Label: Pimienta Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: To Brenda With Love, Danza Caracteristica, Song for Maura, Basstronaut, Who's Smokin'?, Y La
Negra Bailaba, Andalucia, A Lo Tristano, Como Un Bolero, Annette's For Sure.
Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: WDR’s Latin Big Band offering with D’Rivera, Roditi and others. Big Band Time is yet another showcase for the first-rate WDR Big Band (WDR), featuring Paquito D’Rivera and Claudio Roditi. Conducted and rearranged by Bill Dobbins, the material is familiar, although its treatment isn’t. The reconceptualizations of compositions mostly ...
Elio Villafranca: Incantations Encantaciones
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Yet another Cuban loss is Philadelphia's gain. Enter Elio Villafranca. Incantations Encantaciones, produced alongside Larry Cramer, is his sortie into winning leadership. Sorting out the pianist's musicality, brute force, effervescence, topicality, virtuostic independence (just pay attention in You Spoke Too Soon" on this regard), patience, candor, and brazen delicacy is not that difficult. This is one ...
Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time
by Jack Bowers
This is one of those good old-fashioned power-laden big-band albums that begs the listener to crank up the volume and let 'er rip. Great songs and wonderful charts, essentially in a buoyant Latin groove, played to a fare-thee-well by Germany's superlative WDR Big Band, with electifying solos by Paquito D'Rivera, Claudio Roditi, other guest artists and ...
Paquito D'Rivera with the WDR Big Band: Big Band Time
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
As much as I love the intimacy of trios, there's nothing like a big band--especially one with Latin rhythms, great charts and masterful soloists. Big Band Time has all of these, together with ample proof that D'Rivera is a fine writer as well as player (six of the ten tunes are his). The German WDR Big ...