Brass Roots

Brass Roots: Purple Cha Cha Heels

by Dan McClenaghan
April 5, 2003

"Latin music, I always thought, had something special going for it, a rhythmic invention, a pulse, that's free and uplifting." -- Guitarist Ry Cooder, in an interview with George Varga for The San Diego Union.The bets are in, and it's running about three-to-one that you've never heard anything quite like Brass Roots Purple Cha Cha Heels before. Latin music, distilled to a pure essence. Two trombones, a trumpet, baritone sax, and, of course, the congas. Chamber mambo, if ...