Movement
Kobie Watkins
Musik (cd), ℗2018
Emneord
Anmeldelser (2)
Latin Jazz Network
d. 29. juni 2017
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Raul da Gama
d. 29. juni 2017
"Editor's Pick - Featured Album" - "Seldom does a mixed vocal and large ensemble programme such as this hang together so perfectly, each successive piece across the five movements tightening the ratchet of intensity towards a final, dramatic, and pertinently contemporary anguish and joy ... His pacing is unerring in the face of very complex polyrhythms and the sense of narrative that he brings to this epic work is utterly persuasive as he breathes life into the work, forcing us to inhale and exhale with him. A long and happy and illustrious future is predicted for this work that can only be described as monumental".
DownBeat
2018 August
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Eugene Holley
2018 August
"Pianist/composer Elio Villafranca is the latest in a decades-long line of Cuban musicians who has integrated African, European and PanAmerican musical concepts. His two-disc set is a compelling and complex dedication to Cinque, the Sierra Leonean who led a bloody revolt aboard the Cuban-bound, slave ship Amistad in 1839 and later was freed by John Quincy Adams ... it's all augmented by Villafranca's field recordings of Cuban/Congo-derived conga and palo mayombe chants and rhythms, along with other Afro-derived music from Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and New Orleans, melded with the jazz language".