Customer Reviews

Cuba Linda

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Esta obra es absolutamente espectacular. Conserva las raices de los instrumentos y ritmos cubanos.El cantante interpreta de la mejor manera el son cubano, como otros grandes :Miguelito Cuni, Ignacio Piñeiro, Miguel Matamoros y Benny Moré.

From the opening bars of the salsa descarga of track 1, this exuberant CD celebrates pianist/composer Rodriguez' return to his native Cuba. The musicianship of the band is superb and the leader's rhythmic and sure piano guides them and the listener through a rollicking survey of all the styles of Afro-Cuban music, combining respect for roots with a modern sensibility. This was surely the finest Latin-jazz recording the year of its release, and it has held up through repeated listenings as a real treasure.

I picked this up on a whim-- at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute cafeteria, of a places,
where a terrific small combo was wailing. Was Rodriguez there? I don't know.
But I'll say that in the decade since it's never left my music player,
& I've bought copies for a few friends.

Tremendous trumpet on Tumbao a Peruchin.
The title song Cuba Linda is a brilliant dialogue between traditional Cuban drumming and chanting
and modern jazz. Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado has tasty violin duo melodies that make it a
workshop on where to put notes in time. And a vintage tear-it-up piano solo.
Actually, the piano throughout is amazing, fun, virtuosic, daring.

Briefly I love every cut on this album.
It started my off as a fan of AR,
and I try to get everything he produces.
Check out his Cuban Jazz for example.

To what the other reviewers said, let me add: "Cuando vuelvo a tu lado", by itself, justifies buying this CD. Consider everything else a bonus.