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The Latin Jazz Quartet
The Latin Jazz Quartet: Bye-Ya!
by Jim Josselyn
Need a jolt? Feel like dancing? Or just need assurance the state of Latin jazz is alive and well? This superb recording should accomplish all of those things in spades. A truly international collective, LJQ sports a Dutch trumpeter, Dutch bassist, Curacao (ian?) pianist, German congero and Cuban drummer. The date opens with “Balor Di Bida", which sounds like the great 60’s Miles Quintet gone Latin, due in no small part to Jarmo Hoogendijk's muted trumpet tone and the fierce ...
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by Jim Josselyn
Need a jolt? Feel like dancing? Or just need assurance the state of Latin jazz is alive and well? This superb recording should accomplish all of those things in spades. A truly international collective, LJQ sports a Dutch trumpeter, Dutch bassist, Curacao (ian?) pianist, German congero and Cuban drummer. The date opens with “Balor Di Bida", which sounds like the great 60’s Miles Quintet gone Latin, due in no small part to Jarmo Hoogendijk's muted trumpet tone and the fierce ...
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The Latin Jazz Quartet
