Isla

Mark Levine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Left Coast Clave
• ASIN: B00008PC06
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,836 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot Latin Jazz for the Summer Season: "Isla" is It!, June 2, 2003

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Kate Says (Montclair, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Isla (Audio CD)

I love this CD even more than the band's first two which were just great. Anyone who says that non-Latin musicians can't play Latin jazz authentically are wrong, wrong, wrong! Mark and the band turn on the heat to Latin tunes like "Seis Pa' Chuito", a lovely song by Jose Lugo, and play fantastic Afro-Cuban jazz arrangements to jazz standards such as Cedar Walton's "Black" and Kenny Garrett's "Ain't Nothing But the Blues". My personal favorites - aside from "Black" - are Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma", with an intro and interlude based on a traditional Vietnamese (!) song and the bolero "A Free Man" by Donald Brown. "Isla" is definitively a keeper for me.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grammy nominee in the Latin Jazz Category, January 10, 2004

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Emma Bovary "Reader" (San Francisco, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Isla (Audio CD)

This is one of those albums you can play over and over and never tire of. Mark Levine is a master of the piano, always showing great knowledge and respect for the genre, and his group, the Latin Tinge, is on fire. Isla has gotten a lot of airplay on my latin and jazz radio show, and it's the real deal.