JERRY GONZALEZ & THE FORT APACHE: RUMBA BUHAINA - The Music of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

JERRY GONZALEZ é um músico obrigatório em qualquer lista dos grandes nomes do "Latin Jazz". Ë uma figura estranha; faz o gênero "EXQUISITÃO", inacessível, tipo Miles Davis, um de seus heróis. Mas é um craque, tanto no trumpete quanto nas congas e o FORTE APACHE é um ninho de "cobras" criadas, um time de cracaços.
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ALBUM REVIEW
In keeping with the recent trend of holding up jazz heroes for Latin listening audiences, a cause championed by Conrad Herwig and Brian Lynch in their tributes to Coltrane and Davis, Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band offer up their talents to immortalize Art Blakey and his mighty Jazz Messengers. With some very creative renditions of Jazz Messengees B-sides, like "Crisis" done in a slinky Afro and "Madi's Smile" done in cha cha, Gonzalez shows himself yet again to be a great Latin interpreter of the jazz repertoire. There could not have been a better choice of group than the Fort Apache Band to pay the Messengers homage. They are without a doubt one of the finest Latin jazz outfits operating today, with superb balance
and taste. They play as a unit, seemingly without ego, as only a group with better than 25 years under its belt could. The Fort Apache Band have always lacked the ability to dazzle audiences with virtuosity, but over the years their increasing synergy and sensitivity more than compensate. The level of refinement and restraint on Rumba Buhaina makes it one of the most listenable, enjoyable Latin jazz releases of 2005.
(By Evan C. Gutierrez)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - Endosso e avalizo o comentário do Evan Gutierrez. Este álbum é OURO EM PÓ! (E mais não digo, porque não é preciso).
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JERRY GONZALEZ & THE FORT APACHE: RUMBA BUHAINA - The Music of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

PERSONNEL:
Joe Ford (alto, soprano saxophone)
Jerry Gonzalez (trumpet, flugelhorn, congas, percussion)
Larry Willis (piano)
Andy Gonzalez (bass instrument)
Steve Berrios (drums, cymbals, percussion).

ARRANGEMENTS by JERRY GONZALEZ

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Along Came Betty (5:39)
2. Crisis (9:01)
3. This Is For Albert (4:12)
4. Up Jumped Spring (5:49)
5. Madis Smile (5:10)
6. Wildflower (6:46)
7. United (4:21)
8. The Day You Said Goodbye (5:59)
9. One by One (4:43)
10. Rumba Buhaina (5:55)
11. Ask Me Now (7:54)