A valuable book for both professional and student violinists who want to learn something about playing violin in the Afro-Cuban tradition, known through out much of the world as salsa or just Latin music. The book is in four sections and covers a brief historical overview of the role of the violin in Afro-Cuban music; how the music works; transcriptions and analyses of solos by the seminal violinists in the Afro-Cuban tradition; and an outline of the music featured on the accompanying CD. The CD includes famous Afro-Cuban violin solos and an extended play-along session featuring John Almendra.
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excellent reference book on a much-needed subject,
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This review is from: Latin Violin: How to Play Salsa, Charanga and Latin Jazz Violin (Paperback)
Salsa, and Latin music in general, have been exploding in popularity since the late seventies and show no sign of slowing down. The violin has filled an intriguing role in this kind of music, and there are many great opportunities for string players playing this style, but there has been very little documentation on the style up until this book. One of the great things about the book is its powerful approach to context: Bardfeld managed to get the rights to important recordings of some of the originators of the style, and included them in a CD recording with the book. Historical information and painstakingly accurate transcriptions of those solos complete the picture. Discussions of Clave and other important features of Latin music make this book a must for any serious violinist, professional or amateur.
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More technique than music,
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This review is from: Latin Violin: How to Play Salsa, Charanga and Latin Jazz Violin (Paperback)
This book has a lot of information about the history of Latin jazz violin and how to play it, as well as the people who perform on the CD. Unfortunately, there are very few actual solos of Latin jazz violin pieces. The pieces themselves are almost fine, but the CD is a huge disappointment.
The composing is not very good. Every piece has a tempo marking, and the majority are in 4/4 time with a quarter note almost always 200 or more. This is incredibly strange, since most metronomes don't go past 208, and 240 is out of the question. I do not think the pieces are even played that quickly on the CD (although I haven't checked). It would be more intelligent to half the pieces in cut time, with a quarter note equaling 100. Also, a lot of the pieces in the book were very short, with no good ending. The CD just kind of faded out. The CD was REALLY disappointing... First of all, not even all of the pieces are on the CD. The ones that are are indicated, but about three of them are not on the CD. The creators did find it necessary, though, to put three solos NOT in the book on the CD. I do not see the point. It would have been fine if they had all the solos in the book on the CD, and then decided to add some other pieces for entertainment. I noticed that the pieces not on the CD were the slower pieces, while the more impressive, faster pieces were on the CD. Also, the violin part on the CD does not sound very good at all. The notes are fairly in tune, and the player can obviously play quickly, but the sound of the violin is unpleasant. It just sounds like a cheap violin on pretty cheap recording. You also sometimes have to listen for when the main violin comes in, since apparently there are other violins in the ensemble (although that usually isn't too hard, as the main violin is amplified more than the others).
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