Alfredo Rodriguez, Jesús Alemañy - Jesus Alemany's ¡Cubanismo! feat. Alfredo Rodriguez
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Artist: Alfredo Rodriguez, Jesús AlemañyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-02-27
Music Label: Hannibal
Soundtracks:
- Descarga De Hoy
- Meta Y Guaguanco
- Tumbao De Coqueta
- Aprovecha
- Pa'que Gozen
- Ni Pa'ca Pa'lla
- Homanaje A Arcano
- La Rumba Y El Tumbador
- Cicuta Tibia
- Ahora Me Voy
Free Music Notes for Jesus Alemany's ¡Cubanismo! feat. Alfredo Rodriguez
Free Music Review: 4 1/2* You Ready to RUMBA?!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an extremely satisfying collection of Cuban songs performed by a band of virtuosi fronted by the great trumpet player, Jesus Alemany. It's an excellent introduction to the range of Cuban jazz, as the dance tracks include such rhythms as rumba, cha-cha, son, danzon, and pa'ca. The musicians are uniformly excellent, but I was especially impressed by the three Alemany family members on trumpet, Orlando Valle on flute (an instrument that I don't usually enjoy that much), excellent jazz riffs by pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, and underneath it all, the incessant, overlapping percussive section (including the following instruments: timbale, conga, bongo, guiro, claves, and quinto). Tanto Guines is one of the great modern percussionists; he and Miguel Aurelio Diaz move these pieces along with their complex, rumbling beats. The percussion section, by the way, is very well recorded
The CD also cuts across various strains of jazz: Big band (with big blaring solos), some modern dissonance (the saxophonists and pianist play some beautiful abstract riffs that are great 1950's bop) and some straight ahead mainstream numbers. These latter songs (e.g., "Aprovecha") are relaxing and danceable, but also the least compelling. Fortunately, most of the songs take more risks. Unlike another reviewer here, I thought the horn section was tight, the sections and the band as a whole work well together. Towards the end, a few of the cuts on this long album lose some energy as the dance sensibility gets more weight than the jazz. I think mixing in some live performances would have added excitement and enabled a more personal feeling to the band. Granted, they don't showboat it, but the briefly spoken phrase by the drummer at the end of the last song added a "presence" that was almost electrifying. An excellent large ensemble introduction to the genre.
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