Ignacio Berroa - Codes
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Artist: Ignacio BerroaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Matrix
- Joao Su Merced
- La Comparsa
- Partido Alto
- Realidad Y Fantasia
- Pinocchio
- Woody 'N' You
- Inutil Paissagem (Useless Landscapes)
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Hit: 4 Stars
First off, this album is well recorded...you can almost hear the oxygen in the studio! Musically it offers drummer extaordinaire Berroa (hey, Dizzy Gillespie didn't pick any slouches for sidemen!) a variety of settings and tempos for him and his sidemen (including well-seasoned tenorman David Sanchez and piano terror Gonzalo Rubalcaba)to take full advantage of while weaving magical musical tapestries. The original tunes, including one by Mr. Berroa himself, are strong melodically and grow on the listener with each repeated listening. Rhythmically (this is the DRUMMERS album!) they run the gamut from wistful and airy ballads, complex and twisting odd meter excursions, to driving Afro Cuban romps that will make you want to get up and shake something. And last but not least, Berroa and company give new and wonderful treatment to a couple of jazz classics, Gillespies "Woody N' You", and Wayne Shorter's "Pinnochio".
Hopefully the reader will get the opportunity to hear Ignacio Berroa and his group live somewhere, sometime soon (I recentlly heard them at Jazz Alley in Seattle, and they KILLED!). For those who may have to wait awhile for the chance however, CODES is a wonderful way to pass the time!
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Dizzy Gillespie proclaimed that the Cuban-born drummer Ignacio Berroa was, "[t]he only Latin drummer in the world, in the history of American music that intimately knows both worlds; his native Afro-Cuban music as well as Jazz." His stunning debut features an international group that includes his homeboy and longtime partner, keyboardist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Puerto Rican saxophonist David Sanchez, percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo, Venezuelan pianist Ed Simon, and American bassist John Patitucci. Berroa turns Chick Corea's "Matrix" and Wayne Shorter's "Pinocchio" into complex, clave-coded Latin jazz labyrinths. Berroa's composition "Joao Su Merced" swings with Yoruba cadences and chants, and his Cubanized renditions of the Brazilian ensemble Azymuth's "Partido Alto" and Antonio Carlos Jobim's ballad "Inutil Paissagem (Useless Landscapes)" make this a pan-American affair. For those expecting Berroa to make his own syncopated statement as a leader, this stunning CD was well worth the wait. --Eugene Holley, Jr.Latin Music Music CDs
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