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CD: Without A Doubt Track: Monterey Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. On this new release (the fourth one to date), percussionist Steven Kroon and his band give us more of his unique, unmistakable sound, reminiscent of the Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) neighbourhood, with its melting pot of cultures and diversity, where musical rhythms collide and blend in a seamless manner. Steven’s music is fresh, lively, full of energy and positive vibes. |
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CD: Bons Amigos Track: Piccolo Samba Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Claudio Roditi has just put out a superb recording. Bons Amigos is the work of a true Master, surrounded by his best friends, his very special horns, and his very special bandmates. Piccolo Samba, the track showcased here, couldn’t be more representative of the innovation and creativity of this modern musical genius. As humble as only himself could be, Roditi embodies the best of the best in a Jazz artist. |
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CD: Urban Nature Track: Latin What? Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
A distinguished sideman who has become a successful leader. That’s Sammy Figueroa. From the very first note on Urban Nature, the musical mastery is evident. A great follow-up to Figueroa’s two previous Grammy nominated albums. Pianist Silvano Monasterios and bassist Gabriel Vivas -both hailing from Venezuela- lend a big hand with their compositions on this project. |
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CD: Unconditional Track: Farmacia Del Angel Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Venezuelan pianist Silvano Monasterios’ first release on the Savant label is his fourth to date. Classically trained, Monasterios has come a long way since his early days at the esteemed José Angel Lamas Conservatory in Caracas. Based in Miami, Florida, Monasterios is coming out of his southern territory to project himself at a national scale. He is outstanding as a composer and soloist. |
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CD: Afropean Affair Track: The Illusive Number Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Another great American pianist making a name for himself and his band is Oscar Pérez. Born in New York to a Cuban father and a Colombian mother, he absorbed his musical heritage from an early age, and after a long way getting his act together, he joins the wave of jazz artists who are erasing the distinctions between straight ahead and Latin jazz, as they forge a new idiom in the evolution of this great American art form we call Jazz. Afropean Affair is Oscar’s second recording. |
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