JANE BUNNETT AND THE SPIRITS OF HAVANA: CHAMALONGO

JANE BUNNETT
JANE BUNNETT - até buscar material para produzir esta postagem eu pensava que JANE BUNNETT fosse cubana. Eu já ouvira muita coisa dela, sem imaginar que Jane fosse canadense. Trata-se de uma grande instrumentista, com domínio total dos saxofones e flautas em todas as suas modalidades, e absolutamente fluente na linguagem do jazz e do "cuban-afro-latin-jazz". Aliás o Canadá hem? Foi de lá que saíram para o mundo: Oscar Peterson, Michael Bublé, Rob McConnel, Jane Bunnett, Gordon De Lamont ( grande
maestro, autor de três livros pioneiros - "Modern Arranging Technic", nos quais TODOS OS ARRANJADORES brasileiros da minha época estudaram. O outro livro OBRIGATÓRIO na época era o de Henry Mancini, "Sounds & Scores.)
(CB)
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JANE BUNNETT
Jane Bunnett, the Toronto soprano saxophonist, flutist and bandleader, has built her career at the crossroads between Cuban music and jazz. Twice nominated for Grammy awards and a fixture of the nominations for Canada’s Juno awards, she has turned her bands into showcases for the finest musical talent from Canada, the United States and
Cuba. Paquito D’Riviera, the great Cuban saxophonist, has said of her: “Jane is brilliant and she’s been trying so hard to play the real thing. What she’s doing is valid and legit.” It was 1982. Bunnett and her husband, the irrepressible trumpeter Larry Cramer, had a Toronto winter to avoid and as much disposable income to spend on their vacation as jazz musicians generally do — not much. Cuba looked like a
good deal. They booked a flight. And their lives changed forever. What everyone knows now, thanks to Buena Vista Social Club and other recent events — that Cuba is home to an incredibly rich musical tradition kept alive by a vital and ageless musical tradition — had somehow faded from North Americans’ memory in the early 1980s. It sure came as news to the vacationing Torontonians. Everywhere Bunnett and Cramer went they found drummers whose command of rhythmic complexity dwarfed anything you’d hear back home; horn players who deployed amazing dexterity in the service of heartstopping lyricism; pianists who could make any decrepit old upright roar like doom or sing like a heart in love. No fools, they took out their horns and
played along. And, realizing how rich and challenging all this music was, they made quick plans to return and study some more. By the early 1990s Bunnett had become a regular and visitor to Havana’s music venues; she was incorporating Cuban
musicians, beginning with the pianist Hilario Durán, into her Toronto bands; and she had released her first Cuban-influenced album, 1991’s Spirits of Havana. Since then Bunnett has moved from strength to strength, touring internationally and recording a string of critically lauded albums. Her comfortable house in Toronto’s west end has become a home away from home for a growing number of extraordinary young Cuban musicians who’ve migrated to Toronto.
(Excerpt from Jane Burnnett's website - Edited by CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO: é impressionante o efeito que Cuba exerce sobre músicos das mais diversas nacionalidades. Jane Bunnett é um dentre tantos que foram beber diretamente na fonte, tanto que este álbum foi gravado em Havana. O Grupo de Jane é integrado totalmente por músicos cubanos da melhor cepa e eu destaco, dentre eles o grande pianista HILARIO DURAN, um gigante, e a notável cantora MERCEDITA VALDES, outro ícone da música cubana. Grande album da canadense de alma cubana.
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JANE BUNNETT AND THE SPIRITS OF HAVANA: CHAMALONGO
Label Blue Note Records (USA)
Orig Year 1998
Street Date Nov 18, 1997

TRACKS/FAIXAS:

1. Mondongo
2. Yambu
3. Inolvidable - (featuring Merceditas Valdes)
4. Amor Por Ti - (featuring Merceditas Valdes)
5. Desgarga A La Hindemith - (featuring Frank Emilio)
6. San Lazaro
7. Chamalongo
8. Avisale
9. Freedom At Last
10. Coco - (featuring Merceditas Valdes)

PERSONNEL:
Jane Bunnett (soprano saxophone, flute)
Tata Guines (congas, vocals)
Merceditas Valdes (vocals)
Yosvanny Terry (tenor saxophone)
Larry Cramer (trumpet)
Frank Emilio, Hilario Duran (piano)
Carlitos del Puerto (acoustic bass)
Raulito Hernandez (timbales).

Cuban Folkloric All-Stars:
a) Vocals:
Gregorio Hernandez
Ernesto Gatell
Amado Dedeu
Pedro Martinez
Rodolfo Chacon
b) Percussion
Pancho Quinto
Maximino Duquesne
Aspirina
Marcos Diaz Scull
Lazaro Rizo Cuevas


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