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Cambucha
Milton Cardona
Cambucha
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Latin Music
 
  •  Track Listings (12) - Disc #1

Milton Cardona is one of New York's most in-demand Latin-jazz and salsa percussionists, with credits ranging from Willie Colon to Michael Brecker to Steve Turre to David Byrne. He's also a master of the sacred West African...  more »

     
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All Artists: Milton Cardona
Title: Cambucha
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Justin Time Records
Original Release Date: 9/28/1999
Release Date: 9/28/1999
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Latin Music
Styles: Latin Jazz, Latin Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 068944102822, 707787102827

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Milton Cardona is one of New York's most in-demand Latin-jazz and salsa percussionists, with credits ranging from Willie Colon to Michael Brecker to Steve Turre to David Byrne. He's also a master of the sacred West African bata rhythms and vocal chants that form the spiritual foundation of Afro-Cuban music. Cambucha demonstrates Cardona's visionary skill as both a conguero and a vocal arranger. The soul of this music is as ancient as an African village, as modern as a New York subway station. "Goddess of Sweet Waters" is a traditional call-and-response orisha chant, and "A Kiss" consists of overdubbed doo-wop harmonies. Brecker's tenor sax spars with Cardona's shekeres on "Freedom of Expression," while the jazzy title track features solos by trumpeter James Zollar, trombonist Papo Vasquez, and saxophonist Phillipe Vieux. This is how the saints come dancing in to the new millennium. --Rick Mitchell
 

CD Reviews

Cuba in New York
Derrick Smith | Richmond, CA | 02/16/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Milton Cardona has appeared on scores of recordings but has largely remained the figure of a masterful percussionist - one who "merely" maintains the rhythmic (and often melodic) structure of the piece while staying just out the spotlight. This album presents his vision, which blends and diffracts the Afro-Cuban philosophy and experience with the sound of New York, in which Coltrane's sober modalities and reflective doo-wop harmonies overlay dense layers of percussion and a mixed-sex chorus. A couple of tracks extend themselves beyond the point of interest of anyone not specifically interested in the diasporic interpretation of Yoruban rites, but the album as a whole is elegant, warm, and strong."