RECORDINGS
César Orozco & Kamarata Jazz No Limits for Tumbao This sprawling yet conceptually focused recording makes for a fun ride through ethnic and jazz idioms. Citing the title, keyboardist César Orozco explains that, in Latin music, tumbao is akin to what “swing” means in jazz, as in, “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that….” Rest assured, Orozco and company have got plenty of it in their inspired mix of Venezuelan and Cuban styles (both folkloric and modern) and jazz. Despite complex rhythms and sudden left turns, the music remains surprisingly lyrical, buoyed by multi-percussion with a danceable heart. The grooving rhythm section includes bassist Rodner Padilla, percussionist Francisco Vielma, and Euro Zambrano, an L.A. drummer originally from Venezuela who lends scintillating drive to overlapping Afro-Latin grooves and loping funk. Notable guests include the pioneering saxophonists Paquito D’Rivera and Yosvany Terry, and Pedrito Martinez, Luisito Quintero, Pablo Bencid, and Vladimir Quintero make outstanding percussion/drumming cameos as well. (ALFI) Jeff Potter
Phil Haynes Sanctuary A veteran jazzer releases his fi rst solo album, capturing a career’s worth of sonic impressions. Though free jazz can be a tough nut to crack—free- jazz solo drumming even more so—what you get out of it is often what you bring to it. On Bucknell University professor Phil Haynes’ solo debut, Sanctuary, free-ish rhythms wash over the listener like a wave submerging a surfer. A sensitive drummer, Haynes treats silence almost philosophically; his assorted drum cracks, brush fi ligrees, and cymbal zings are like the sounds of forest creatures at dawn. Comprising twenty-seven short pieces organized as fi ve movements, the music is performed on drums and cymbals, water bottles, discarded “plastic strips,” a broken toy, and hand percussion. Sanctuary is an atmospheric world of percussion shape-shifted into living things. (Corner Store Jazz) Ken Micallef
TAKING THE REINS Other Drummer-Leds to Check Out
Tigue (percussion trio) Peaks /// Art “Turk” Burton and Congo Square Spirits: Then & Now /// Bastian Weinhold Cityscape /// Scott Hamilton and Jeff Hamilton Trio Live in Bern /// Chris Parker Trio Blue Print /// Randy Gloss …The Ayes Have It, Vol. 1: Self Portraits in Percussion
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