Avenida Central

Tienda Panama City's Central Avenue--the major street in pianist Danilo Perez's hometown, with its Hispanic, Middle Eastern, West Indian and American population--provides the perfect multicultural metaphor for this amazing recording, which also includes drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts; bassists John Benitez and John Patitucci; tabla player Ray Spiegel; vocalist Luciana Souza; and percussionists Pernell Saturnino and Miguel "Anga" Diaz. With his Afro-American/classically-trained pianisms, Perez does what his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, did: He uses jazz and Afro-Latin rhythms to explore the world. He moves from the east Indian/Arabic tinges of "Blues for the Saints" and "Impromptu (Conversations)"; to the sly, Argentine/Afro-Amerindian chacarera rhythms on Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life"; and lands on the Cuban shore to the ancestral anthems of the guaguanco/abakua ritual drumming on John Coltrane's "Impressions," with Sousa's airy, wordless vocals. Perez's love of Thelonious Monk is most evident on the slow, stealth-like melody of "Love in Five." On "Panama Blues," he swings an inventive jazz arrangement on an old folk melody rendered by Panamanian country singer Raul Vital, with Aquiles Baez on the cuatro; this arrangement showcases this pianist's ever-expanding and boundary- busting imagination. --Eugene Holley, Jr. Críticas The new disc's title, the name of a culturally mixed thoroughfare in Panama City, hints at the wider, world-and-roots-music rhythms that grace such originals as "Impromptu (Conversations)" with its mix of tabla and congas. -- The Los Angeles Times

Detalles del producto Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Dimensiones del producto : 5,5 x 4,94 x 0,45 pulgadas; 2,88 Onzas Fabricante : Grp Records Producto en Tienda desde : febrero 11, 2007 Etiqueta : Grp Records ASIN : B00000AFYI Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº212,617 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº546 en Música Cubana nº934 en Jazz Latino (CDs y Vinilo) nº2,392 en Pop Latino (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.1 4.1 de 5 estrellas (6) Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Dimensiones del producto : 5,5 x 4,94 x 0,45 pulgadas; 2,88 Onzas Fabricante : Grp Records Producto en Tienda desde : febrero 11, 2007 Etiqueta : Grp Records ASIN : B00000AFYI Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº212,617 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº546 en Música Cubana nº934 en Jazz Latino (CDs y Vinilo) nº2,392 en Pop Latino (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.1 4.1 de 5 estrellas (6)