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Cedar Walton
Latin Tinge
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Latin Music

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Brazil - Cedar Walton, Barroso, Ary
2. Latin America - Cedar Walton, Walton, Cedar
3. Triste - Cedar Walton, Jobim, Antonio Carl
4. Tres Palabras - Cedar Walton, Farres, Osvaldo
5. Perfidia - Cedar Walton, Dominguez, Alberto
6. The Vision - Cedar Walton, Walton, Cedar
7. Besame Mucho - Cedar Walton, Skylar, Sunny
8. Serenata - Cedar Walton, Anderson, Leroy
9. Latino Blue - Cedar Walton, Walton, Cedar

CD Details

All Artists: Cedar Walton
Title: Latin Tinge
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: HighNote Records
Release Date: 10/15/2002
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Latin Music
Styles: Latin Jazz, Bebop, Latin Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 632375709921

Synopsis

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The great Jelly Roll Morton said that if you don't have a Latin tinge in your music "you won't have the right seasoning for jazz." Nobody understands that better than the Dallas-born pianist-composer Cedar Walton. As an member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the '60s, and as an outstanding composer in his own right, Walton has utilized Latin music throughout his distinguished career. On this intimate date with percussionist Ray Mantilla and bassist Chucho Martinez, Walton interprets a number of jazz and Latin standards using just piano, bass, and percussion. Walton's blues-drenched pianisms and elegant touch work magic on the ingenious jazz-and-samba version of Ary Barroso's gem, "Brazil," and on the timeless Cuban boleros "Tres Palabras," "Perfidia," and "Besame Mucho." With Mantilla's tasty drumming and Martinez's rock-steady bass lines, Cedar Walton lays down a relaxed Afro-Caribbean vibe not unlike the decades-old pairing of Nat "King" Cole's trio with bongo master Jack Costanzo. --Eugene Holley Jr.

CD Reviews

Somewhat of a surprise from the hardbop maestro . . .

Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 01/31/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

". . . but altogether a success. Yes, Cedar Walton has recorded a handful of Latin tunes on his nearly 60 discs as leader, but he's never been known for his "Latin Tinge" as someone like, say, McCoy Tyner has.

But he nails it here. Whether transforming a non-Latin original like "The Vision"--given a decidedly un-Latin treatment on the 1993 session The Billy Higgins Quintet--composing songs that reside squarely in the center of the Latin sensibility ("Latin America" and "Latino Blue"), or putting his own unique spin on Latin classics such as "Brazil," "Triste," "Tres Palabras" (my favorite cut), "Perfidia," and "Besame Mucho" (a close second, with its slooow Andalusian burn), leader Walton seems perfectly at home playing a huge variety of distinct but related Latin song forms.

His bandmates, brilliant musicians themselves, New York Latin jazz mainstays Chucho Martinez (bass, via Venezuela) and Ray Mantilla (percussion, via the South Bronx), always seem to create the exact perfect rhythmic context for the leader's pianistic colorations and solo flights.

A winner."