Tag: Joe McCarthy
Dick Brewer Presents: It’s All About Latin Jazz
Dick Brewer is a pianist with a fine technique and a sure-footed way around the complexities of the Latin music idiom. However, on It’s...
Afro Bop Alliance Big Band: Revelation
Editor's Pick · Album of the Month ·
The relatively small, yet deeply rewarding output of the Afro Bop Alliance Big Band is skillfully wrought,...
Afro Bop Alliance: Angel Eyes
The joi de vivre is palpable, though not unexpected, from the opening notes of Afro Bop Alliance's Angel Eyes. But something is different now....
AfroBop Alliance: Una Más
There is a sensuous, almost bordering on lustful, quality to the music on Una Más by the big band, AfroBop Alliance. Not that it is a bad thing at all; quite the contrary, the viscosity of the music is a result of the molten mix of bronzed horns and beautifully clouded woodwinds with elementally raw drums and percussion. The result is a saffron-coloured paella of swirling contra-danzas and soaring son-montuno and on event, a wistful bolero [...]
