Standards Rican-ditioned
Straight up with a few twists is what Barretto serves on "Standards Rican-ditioned," recorded shortly before the jazz master passed. This nine-song collection fulfills the conguero's dream to assemble an all-star cast of musicians of Puerto Rican descent to caress and swing through standards sans weighty
Latin spice. The fine session highlights the improvisational prowess of tenor saxophonist David Sanchez and pianist Hilton Ruiz (ironically, this was also Ruiz's last recording before his untimely death in New Orleans this spring). "Lean on Me" shines with glistening runs by Ruiz, who also stars on his moving solo rendition of the Ellington/Strayhorn beauty "Something to Live For." Without flash, Barretto girds the rhythm with his beats, except on the buoyant "Strange Weather," unfinished before his death. Son Chris fills in on congas while dad's scats, originally intended only as markers for his lines, delightfully remain. —Dan Ouellette
In addition, make sure to read these articles:
- Seen the Worst, Found Their Best
- A Departure from Local Marketing
- It's Time to Get Creative
- Rebirth needed in New Orleans
- APA Report: New Orleans' Planning Operations Must Be Expanded; Changes needed to...
- Viaticum
- Front Parlour Ballads
- Come Together
- From The Plantation To The Penitentiary
- Canvas
- Words Came Back To Me
- Love Sweet Love
- Waltz Again
- Guiding Star
- Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945
Entrepreneurs who survived other disasters offer Katrina's victims the benefit of their hard-won experience.
This may be off-topic but I think it's important. Hurricane Katrina has done substantial damage to many areas of our Gulf Coast, especially in New ......
Business owners can beat out rivals by taking a fresh approach. Here's how.
DAN OUELLETTE ......
CHICAGO -- A report evaluating New Orleans's planning capacity by an American Planning Association (APA) Planning Assessment Team says the city's planning operations must ......
Sweden's Esbjorn Svensson Trio has been putting a spin on the standard piano jazz trio for several years. While E.S.T. has yet to crack the ......
One of pop music's great underappreciated troubadours and guitarists, Thompson again delivers on "Front Parlour Ballads." His first disc in 14 years rooted in the ......
While the charity single "Come Together" follows a noble cause in offering proceeds to Habitat for Humanity and Angels Place to victims of the recent ......
Immensely more satisfying than Marsalis' 1995 epic "Blood on the Fields," a Pulitzer Prize winner, his latest long-form work triumphs as a masterful sociopolitical critique ......
As the first new instrumentalist signed to Blue Note in several years, Glasper faces a kind of performance pressure similar to that of a rookie ......
In the gently clipping "Think of You," Kitchell melodiously muses, "You're like a breath of fresh air," which is an apt description of her rookie ......
Canadian songbird Lynn Miles sings lusciously on her fifth country-tinged, folk-pop album. Smart lyrics abound as she expounds on love lost and gained, sketched with ......
In one of the most unusual, creative jazz releases of 2005, vastly underappreciated tenor saxophonist David Murray delivers this compelling quartet and 10-piece string section ......
Music in a variety of stripes in South Africa played an integral role in shackling apartheid in the '90s, and poet-turned-songwriter Mahlasela served as a ......
To put this jazz treasure in context, when it was recorded 60 years ago, bebop was renegade music, upsetting the swing crowd wanting to dance ......
Email
Digg It
del.icio.us
Related Resources
Press Releases
- LEGO Systems Asks Kids across America to Join Rebuilding Effort by Sending LEGO(R) Bricks to New Orleans Schools; Local Students, Children Across the Country to Imagine and Help ''Rebuild''...
- "CableCares" Initiative to Assist theChildren and Schools of New Orleans.
- City of New Orleans Forms Partnership with MWH toAccelerate Post-Katrina Rebuilding Effort.
Business Resources
Sponsored Links
Site Map | Contact Us | FAQs | About Us | Media Kit | Reprints | RSS Directory | Sign Up for Free Newsletters | Disclosure Policy
Copyright © 1999 - 2008 AllBusiness.com, Inc. All rights reserved.
No part of this content or the data or information included therein may be reproduced,
republished or redistributed without the prior written consent of AllBusiness.com.
Use of this site is governed by our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy, Terms of Use Agreement and Privacy Policy.
© Copyright 2006 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
You may not repost, republish, reproduce, package and/or redistribute the content of this page,
in whole or in part, without the written permission of the copyright holder.
Get In-Depth Company Information from Hoover's | Buy a D&B Credit Report | What is in Your Company's D&B Credit Report? | Article Archives
Online Business Database | Online Business Information | Email Marketing Lists | Sales and Marketing Solutions | Business Mailing Lists
Online Business Database | Online Business Information | Email Marketing Lists | Sales and Marketing Solutions | Business Mailing Lists
Information and opinions on AllBusiness.com solely represent the thoughts and opinions of the authors and are not endorsed by, or reflect the beliefs of,
AllBusiness.com, its parent company D&B, and its affiliates.
AllBusiness.com, its parent company D&B, and its affiliates.
