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Yemaya

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I bought this CD after attending the 2000 Havana Jazz Festival and hearing the group live. When I first listened to the CD, there was so much going on in the music that I was a little distracted. Then I took it on a short road trip and cranked it up in the car, listening to it over and over. The complexity, harmonies, percussion, and ensemble work of this group was a great pleasure to my sensibilities and my soul. This stands as one of my all-time-favorite albums!

I had the opportunity to see Irakere live a few weeks ago and immediately came to Amazon.com to find a CD. I chose this one and I'm glad I did. Even though some of the personnel are different this recording is still as wonderful as they were live. Their Latin Jazz groove is an outstanding blend of many influences.

Often times one will read a review and it will state: "after repeated listenings the listener will be rewarded". Well ... not this album. From the first listen it is exciting, exhuberating music. I just finished listening to it the first time and I love it. If you want high energy, creative jazz with a latin flavor, this album is for you. This band displays excellent mastery of their instruments and the arrangements are tight and so very exciting...buy it!

I love this CD, especially the title track YEMAYA.
I find myself playing it over and over. Chucho
Valdes and Irekere have outdone themselves with
this one. Jazz as a spiritual medium...WOW!
This one will certainly not disappoint.

the great chucho with his all stars fires it up!
top level musicianship married with the true joy of making music and a strong spiritual backbone can only produce beautiful music like this.
i wish more of today's star jazz player could share chucho's humility and sincerity (the fabric of the real giants like coltrane, stevie wondre or bob marley) and give up their sad diva's attitude.
not to mention the magical sound of the historical egrem studio in habana, cuba...

No doubt! this is the most brilliant example of what a real all star team can do!, these musicians are in superb shape and this is the music that is delivering sparkling fire from La Isla de La Música. Just listen to the riffs of that brass section!!, not to say the power of the percussionists (well, of curse they are cuban),and at last but not least the master himself, the great boss Chucho Valdés playing the keyboards with the joy of a child playing in the park and the surgical accurate of the hypermusician he is!. Have no mistake, this is not a recording of memorabilia, this artists don't need your simpaty, they need all your hearing capacity and be shure:this capacity will never be the same after listening to them!!,