ROSWELL RUDD & YOMO TORO - EL ESPIRITU JIBARO (2007)
many thanks to Verna Gillis SOUNDSCAPE
It was Yomo Toro who brought the cuatro (a four string guitar) into the international arena the funky jibaro (whom Robert Palmer, writing in The New York Times, called the Puerto Rican Jimi Hendrix ) was a long time member of the Fania All Stars. When Roswell first heard Yomo he swooned, and they finally met in 2002 when Roswell sat in with Yomo at a concert in Haverstraw, NY. It was love at first sound and their collaboration had seeded. Following MaliCool and Blue Mongol, Roswell Rudd now collaborates with musicians of the Latin culture, and the fusion with his jazz idiom is perfect.
Pouchie & The Bird Tango For Chris Tres, Cuatro Preludio El Amor Bamako Loved By Love Inspiracion Mayor G Este Es Yomo Toro!
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review by Peter Watrous - courtesy www.descarga.com
The
subtitle here is featuring
Bobby Sanabria and Ascension, and
what has been produced is one of the more fertile musical projects
I’ve heard in the last year, a meeting between
Rudd, on
of the great figures of the jazz avant guard on trombone, the master
quatro player Yomo Toro and the imposing drummer Bobby Sanabria and
his group. The music, well there’s nothing like this around, at
times a descarga working out on pieces by Rudd and Toro, at times
more composed. There’s a pile of polyphony, with horns climbing all
over each other. The band, often but not always Sanabria’s band,
works wonders on cumbias and more, and there’s shouting and coros
and modern jazz harmonies, dissonance and deep, deep rhythm and a
butt-load of joy and pleasure. At times it sounds Mingusian,
uproarious, and at times almost like the music of Astor Piazolla. A
work of genius, a full throated shout of appreciation and interest
and pleasure. Amazing.
Highly Recommended.
