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Irakere: The best of Irakere

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1994
Time:
 75:08
Category: Latin Jazz
Producer(s): Bert de Coteaux, Mike Berniker
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.valdeschucho.com
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Purchase date: 1999
Price in €: 14,99



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[1] Gira Gira (G. Battle / A. Dominich) - 5:43
[2] Claudia (C. Valdes) - 6:02
[3] Ilya (A. Sandoval) - 9:17
[4] Anunga Nunga (O. Valdes) - 6:02
[5] Ciento Anos de Juventud (C. Puerto) - 7:47
[6] Aguanile (C. Valdes) - 4:57
[7] Misa Negra [The Black Mass] (C. Valdes/arranged by C. Valdes) - 17:37
[8] Adagio on a Mozart Theme (W. A. Mozart/arranged by P. D'Rivera) - 5:44
[9] Xiomara (A. Ruiz) - 6:13
[10] Por Romper el Coco (G. Battle) - 5:22

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On Tracks [1], [3]-[10]:
Paquito D'Rivera - Saxophone
Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet
Chucho Valdes - Piano
Carlos Averhoff - Flute, Saxophone
Carlos Emilio Morales - Guitar
Enrique Pla - Drums
Oscar Valdes - Percussion, Vocals
Jorge Varona - Trumpet
Jorge "El Nino" Alfonso - Percussion
Armando Cuervo - Percussion
Carlos Del Puerto - Bass Guitar

On Track [2]:
Paquito D'Rivera - Saxophone
Enrique Pla - Drums
Chucho Valdes - Piano
Carlos Emilio Morales - Guitar
Oscar Valdes - Percussion, Vocals
Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet

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Reissue producer: Nedra Olds-Neal.

Principally recorded live in New York in April, 1979. Includes liner notes by Robin A. Vazquez.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

All songs written or co-written by members of Irakere except "Gira Gira" (G. Battle/A. Dominich), "Adagio On A Mozart Theme" (W. Mozart), "Xiomara" (A. Ruiz) and "Por Romper El Coco" (G. Battle.)

This is part of the Columbia Jazz Contemporary Masters series.



For today's Latin jazz fans, this is a succinct and nearly complete roundup of Irakere's two North American albums, a brief peek through Cuba's door before politics slammed it shut again for another generation. Irakere is represented by four tracks, including the lengthy, uncut "Black Mass," and Irakere II by six tracks. The live Irakere was an exciting breakthrough, a real advance in the alliance between Afro-Cuban and American jazz that took into account the electronic developments in music since politics isolated Cuba from the U.S. Irakere II, a studio product, is not nearly as startling; the sound and arrangements are slicker, there are strings and voices on some cuts, supertrumpeter Arturo Sandoval was encouraged to show off his pretty tone as well as his fire, and the Cubans even tried to churn out a disco beat on some tracks, negating all of those wild, wonderful Afro-Cuban cross-rhythms. Still, there are passages where the more commercially motivated grooves take off, as in the central section of "Ciento Anos De Juventud," and "Xiomara" is a killer in the old Cuban tradition. Interestingly, when Irakere made their belated American comeback at the Playboy Jazz Festival at Hollywood Bowl in 1996, some of their innovative edge was gone, replaced by overt attempts to get the crowd up on its collective feet. All the more reason to cherish this CD -- which has become the only option one has to sample this Cuban band at, and nearly at, its peak.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide
 

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