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Hilario Duran: Cry Me A River
by Pierre Giroux
Hilario Durán is a renowned Cuban-Canadian jazz pianist and composer known for contributing to Latin jazz. He does not release big band efforts often, but with the release of Cry Me A River, he has reconstituted his Latin Jazz Big Band to take us on an extraordinary musical journey, effortlessly blending myriad genres into his singular style. Durán's Afro-Caribbean cultural attachment informs the nine works of both originals and covers in this outing, resulting in a unique tapestry of sound. ...
read moreMario Romano: The Journey So Far
by Edward Blanco
Argentinian-born, Canadian-based pianist Mario Romano delivers his fourth album as leader with The Journey So Far, essentially a compilation project that takes tracks from previously recorded albums and presents them in new light. A successful real-estate developer with a strong musical background, Romano spent most of his life building a business career and after achieving uncommon success, returned to jazz after 2010. He has since become an integral part of the Canadian jazz scene and has created a high-profile with ...
read moreRoberto Occhipinti Trio Redefines Saturday Afternoons at Toronto Pub
by Neal Colgrass
Roberto Occhipinti TrioDora Keogh PubToronto, CanadaDecember 19, 2009
Hilario Duran and Roberto Occhipinti
Few world-class jazz trios play at neighborhood pubs. But Toronto has lost two of its most popular venues--goodbye Top O' the Senator; au revoir Montreal Bistro--and several smaller places are helping to kick-start the scene. Why not a cozy bar that bills itself as being authentic Irish"?
Teenage dancers were leaving the Dora Keogh pub after a Celtic ...
read moreRoberto Occhipinti: A Bend in the River
by Raul d'Gama Rose
A dark vision of the world and this time is, perhaps, the most accurate one today. So when an account of artists' contributions to raising the world's level of awareness is written, bassist Roberto Occhipinti's fine A Bend in the River will rank as one with the clearest reflection of that vision. Of course none of this means that the record is not infinitely enjoyable. It is played in a continuously evolving idiom and, indeed, reveals something fascinatingly new with ...
read moreRoberto Occhipinti: Yemaya
by John Kelman
Roberto Occhipinti, a bassist who has comfortably straddled an increasingly tenuous line between classical and jazz worlds for many years, has become more ambitious in style and scope with each successive release. On Yemaya, the Toronto native ups the ante from his superb mini-big band release The Cusp (Modicamusic, 2003) by enlisting a string quartet, a host of percussionists and a full symphony orchestra to augment his core septet. Despite the emphasis on composition and arrangement, there's still plenty of ...
read moreRoberto Occhipinti: Where Rivers, Bunnett and the Classical Meet
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Trinacria Modica Music 2000
Roberto Occhipinti covers the spectrum reflected through the prism of music such as that of Sam Rivers, Jane Bunnett, and European Classicism. In 2000, the bassist released Trinacria (Modica Music) with fellow former “Bunnettero” Hilario Durán on piano. Their cool and swinging treatment of Herbie Hancock’s “One Finger Snap” and “Maiden Voyage,” ably shows the type of interplay that only ensues after years together under Latin jazz’s Matron Saint –as well as ...
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Cry Me A River
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