Home » Jazz Musicians » Nachito Herrera

Nachito Herrera

Sign in / sign up and request update access to the Nachito Herrera page.


Tags

160
Album Review

Nachito Herrera: Live at the Dakota 2

Read "Live at the Dakota 2" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


This 2003 date by pianist Nachito Herrera, a veteran of both the Cubanismo group and an idiosyncratic migration from Havana to Minneapolis, is his second live record from the Dakota, located in his adopted hometown. This time around, the large-group format of the first live disc gives way to a smaller ensemble.

Herrera's group masters the dynamic contrasts at the heart of Latin jazz. One motif is turning up the volume for the climatic resolution of repetitive themes; the opening ...

166
Album Review

Nachito Herrera: Bemb

Read "Bemb" reviewed by Chris May


Nachito Herrera conceived this recording as an exposition of eleven different Cuban song forms--from bolero and cha-cha-cha through guaracha and guanguanco, with a strong admixture of jazz throughout--but any danger of Bembé En Mi Casa coming on like a college lecture disappears with track one, note one. A campus riot would be a more accurate description. Like the title track says, “Party at mine!" The music starts out hot and passionate and stays that way, with only brief pauses for ...

Read more articles
108

Recording

National Debut Release by Former ¡Cubanísmo! Bandleader and Pianist, Nachito Herrera, BEMBÉ EN MI CASA

National Debut Release by Former ¡Cubanísmo! Bandleader and Pianist, Nachito Herrera, BEMBÉ EN MI CASA

Source: All About Jazz

“This album is a wonderland of musica cubana and a must if you love the piano stylings of Peruchin, Lili Martinez and Frank Emilio Flynn, other pianists with the candela (flame) to turn ice into water." - Jesse “Chuy" Varela, Latin Beat

In the past decade, Cuba reminded the world once again, as it has done frequently since the rumba rage of the 1930s and the mambo era of the post World War II years, that this small ...

Music

Similar

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.