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Snowboy and the Latin Section: New York Afternoon
by Phil Barnes
The pervasive myths of New York are of a whole different order to those of just about any other world city. If 'Swinging London' ever existed before the offshore 'investors' moved in, it was long ago reduced, as the Clash put it, to the 'ring of that truncheon thing,' yet New York has somehow kept its mystique. Perhaps it's just a whole different level of myth, an Instagram filter on a rose tinted memory of a construction learned from beloved ...
read moreSnowboy and the Latin Section: Afro Cuban Jazz
by Jim Santella
Snowboy, who has recorded nine albums with his band The Latin Section, combines an acid jazz texture with traditional Afro-Cuban chants and rhythms. Using a basic call & response format atop lively rhythms, the leader colors his performance with Fender Rhodes and Hammond Organ timbres. The result is a hot dance affair that’s anchored by Snowboy’s congas and remains within the tradition.
Which tradition? Snowboy fuses several. Centuries-old chants and rhythms provide a link to the music’s earliest roots. The ...
read moreBeyond the Ballroom a Celebration of UK Jazz Dance with Gilles Peterson, Snowboy, the Mighty Jeddo + Dilanga
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All About Jazz
Sunday 19 July 3.30pm Beyond the Ballroom A Celebration of UK Jazz Dance with Gilles Peterson, Snowboy, The Mighty Jeddo + Dilanga Tickets 10 Cargo 83 Rivington Street Shoreditch London EC2A 3AY Produced by the Barbican in association with Edge09. Part of Blaze; part of Dance Nations Coinciding with the publication of Mark Snowboy Cotgroves book, From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz: The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Scene, ...
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Ubiquity Releases "Para Puente" by Snowboy on September 12th
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All About Jazz
DJ, music critic, journalist, promoter and bandleading UK conguero Snowboy is back with a heavyweight hard-hitting tribute to Tito Puente, the King of Mambo! Para Puente! What more of a personal tribute can you pay someone than name your album after them? Para Puente is a way of acknowledging how much inspiration Tito Puente, the King of Mambo, gave and continues to give to Snowboy.
There are no Puente 'covers' on this album, and other than my tribute song, Puente", ...
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