Latin Jazz / Latin Funk - CD Reviews (316)
In 1971 Dave Leibman was just starting his career and had the life changing experience of recording Genesis with Elvin Jones. His fellow reed artist Dan Moretti was also pr…
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Saxophonist/percussionist Hilary Noble has teamed up with Latin drummer extraordinaire Bobby Sanabria to produce Noble Savage. The result is a musical stew with a pronounce…
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It's rare in jazz when an artist legendary for mastery of one instrument is daring enough to record an entire CD on another. OnMy Passion For The Piano, Trumpeter ex…
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Joseph Diamond's second CD Island Garden is an exciting mix. These tunes are not just seasoned, but cooking with Caribbean and Latin flavor. It's unusual for an artist to d…
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Harvie S & eye contact give the listening audience some exciting and creative contemporary jazz in their new CD titled NEW BEGINNING. There are a total of 9 selections, eac…
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Michel Camilo has come into his own on "Triangulo," a thriving cultural melting pot of Latin rhythms backed by stalwart players Anthony Jackson (bass) and Horacio "El Negro…
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For those jazz piano fans waiting for the latest release of composer/pianist Michel Camilo, here it is, and they will be delighted with his TRIANGULO, a ten selection CD th…
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Bassist, Harvie S, formerly known as "Harvie Swartz," doesn’t need to begin convincing anyone of his multi-talented musicianship as a leader and sideman for a stellar list …
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Pianist and composer, Michel Camilo, marks his move to Telarc with his third release, "Triangulo," slated to hit the shelves March 26, 2002 featuring Anthony Jackson, maste…
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The Boys are back in town, and what a wonderful surprise to hear them since their ground-breaking debut CD, SALSA FLAMENCA (reviewed in Jazzreview in volume 111)! Young & R…
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Bill Withers, "Use Me" starts this CD off on a Latin beat and the music continues to get hotter from there. The selections speak for themselves from "Hopeless Case," to "On…
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Grammy-nominated jazz/pop song stylist Chris Bennett has taken a turn for bossa nova with the release of Until the End of Time, a Brazilian and Latin-flavored labor …
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Tony Lujan is possibly one of the most underrated Jazz Artists of our time. At 44 this virtuoso trumpeter, composer, arranger and Band leader is too old to be a young lion,…
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One favorite thing about music is its propensity for cross-fertilization, its ability to pull from many disparate sources and create something new, even to create new feeli…
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The domination of the music industry by the pubescent, hard body, under thirty crowd has been a great loss for the culture as a whole. Although it is known that artists can…
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Pianist Jesus "Chuchito" Valdes is true Cuban Royalty. The Grandson of Bebo Valdes and the Son of Chucho Valdes, Chuchito is carrying on the tradition of genius and innovat…
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One of the most hotly debated questions in Latin Jazz is " How do you combine the On The Beat clave feel with the Behind the Beat phrasing of traditional Jazz?" Rey Vega's …
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The soundtrack to the Fernando Trueba film, "Calle 54," is like a fantasy twelve course feast in which each of the courses are served up one after the other. The luxurious …
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In the biographical film depicting the life of Cuban Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, there is a scene where he switches on the radio program "Voice of America" and becomes lost …
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Gonzalo Rubalcaba is releasing his seventh in a string of Blue Note albums--due in no small part to the perseverance of Blue Note president Bruce Lundvall. For Lundvall cir…
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