REBECA MAULEÓN: ROUND TRIP

REBECA MAULEON
Quando postei o primeiro album da Rebeca eu contei que lá no "Beco-das-Garrafas"
éramos todos "porcos-chauvinistas", prá-lá-de-politicamente-incorretos. Quando aparecia uma mulher tocando bem um instrumento, o elogio máximo que nos permitíamos fazer era mais ou menos assim: "TOCA COMO HOMEM!", frase com que eu, "dinossauro chauvinista" (rs), gentilmente agraciaria Rebeca Mauleón. Assisti a um concerto dela
em Miami, e fiquei estarrecido com o vigor, com o piano, realmente "másculo" que
a bela Rebeca toca. Tenho um livro dela, "best-seller" da literatura sobre salsa
e latin jazz, intitulado "The Salsa Guide Book", fundamental prá quem se interessa pela matéria. Possuo também um CD-Rom entitulado "The Latin Jazz Pianist", em que ela disseca todos os segredos dos "montunos" e demais ritmos e "grooves" latinos. Coisa muito séria: PARECE COISA DE "MACHO" :-)
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REBECA MAULEÓN
Rebeca Mauleón is an American pianist, composer, arranger and writer, specializing in salsa and other Latin American and Afro-Caribbean music. Mauleón was born in Santa Monica, California in 1962. She began her professional career in her teen years as a performer and recording artist, and worked with many noted musicians in a variety of musical genres. She has written several texts and articles about the history of Latin and Caribbean music, including the critically acclaimed Salsa Guidebook. Since her early twenties, she has performed and recorded with celebrities in the Latin and jazz music scenes, including Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, Cachao, the celebrated conguero Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Armando Peraza, Giovanni Hidalgo, Joe Henderson, Sheila E, Steve Winwood and others, and has made a name for herself as one of very few female band-leaders in Afro-Caribbean jazz. As a producer, Mauleón has been involved in a wide array of music-related projects, from film and television documentaries to music software companies and instructional DVDs. Her solo recordings – Round Trip, Latin Fire and Descarga en California – have received international critical acclaim as well as top-ten status on leading Latin music industry charts. She has appeared at numerous prominent national and international music festivals, including the Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Monterey Jazz and San Francisco Jazz Festivals, among others.
As musical director of Mickey Hart’s celebrated Planet Drum ensemble, Mauleón has performed throughout the U.S., appearing at Woodstock in 1999 as well as on the Conan O’Brien and Regis and Kathy Lee shows. In 2001 she was the recipient of the prestigious Meet the Composer New Residencies Award, one of the nation’s most coveted composition awards, and has also been a Sundance Composers fellow. She is a professor of Latin American, Caribbean and jazz music as well as composition, and has taught at several universities around the world. Also, she has served as a musicological consultant to National Geographic. Rebeca’s powerful style at the piano and her high-energy musical direction have been dubbed “visceral” (Billboard Magazine), “fiery” (Utne Reader), and critics have lauded her as “one of the hippest band-leaders in Latin music today”
(Source: All Music Guide).
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MY OPINION
This is a great and very eclectic CD, which includes fabulous playing by pianist
Rebeca Mauleón, and two of the true legends in Latin music, percussionists Orestes
Vilató and Horacio Hernandez. This CD really demonstrates Rebeca's compositional
versatility - there's everything on here from Flamenco to R&B styles, of course
with a backbone of tasty Cuban rhythms. BREATHTAKING!
(CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - como sempre, cercada pelo creme-do-creme, dentre os quais se inclui
um ícone da percussão - Orestes Vilató, Rebeca se dá ao luxo de incluir uma personalíssima versão de "Round Midnight" e um fantástico arranjo vocal em dialeto IOURUBÁ, na faixa "At the River". UM LUXO!
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REBECA MAULEÓN: ROUND TRIP


PERSONNEL
Rebeca Mauleon (vocals, piano, keyboards, chekere, clave, guiro, palmas, percussion);
Jesus Diaz (vocals, congas);
Orestes Vilato (vocals, timbales, bongos, bell, guiro, percussion);
Jose Manuel Blanco (vocals, palmas, cajon);
Jeanie Tracy, Linda Tillery, Claytoven Richardson, Brenda Boykin (vocals);
Don Fontowitz (guitar);
Anthony Blea (violin);
Alex Murzyn (flute, alto & tenor saxophones);
John Calloway (flute);
Melecio Magdaluyo (soprano & baritone saxophones);
Louis Fasman, John Worley (trumpet);
Jeff Cressman (trombone);
Paul Van Wageningen, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez (drums);
Monica (palmas, taconeo).

TRACKS/FAIXAS
1.Songomania
2.Fresa y Chocolate
3.No Borders
4.Congri
5.At the River
6.Round Midnight
7.I'll Take You There
8.Gitana
9.New Dawn
10.Round Trip

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