Music / jazz

Latina


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DownBeat

2016 January

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Joe Tangari

2016 January

""Latina" is built around explosive 6/8 rhythms, and Pato plays her Galician bagpipes (called gaita) with bold authority. Her band (...) kicks up a charging racket behind her. But Pato's virtuoso playing is the clear star of the show. The gaita typically includes a bass drone, but she often eschews it in favor of greater harmonic freedom, finding a surprisingly violin-like tone ... The gaita may never take its place alongside the saxophone as a common jazz lead, but "Latina" is revelatory nonetheless".