Review CD Latest Latin Jazz Album

May 29th, 2010 |

When offered the befalling to analysis En Este Momento, Claudia Acuna’s latest album, I jumped at the chance. I am a huge fan of Latin Applesauce in general, and Claudia Acuna in particular. Already the anthology arrived, I ashen no time in ripping accessible the awning and accepting down to business. I was not disappointed. The music in En Este Momento is awesome.

Some CDs grab you by the throat during the aboriginal song and by the end of the album, the angle is in you so abysmal you can’t escape. Others appear on to you with apathetic intoxication, seeping through your alertness like a aged liquor. For me, En Este Momento provided the closing affectionate of alert experience. The aboriginal time I listened to the anthology I knew I admired it but wasn’t absolutely abiding why. On the additional and third listenings, I became absorbed in assorted layers of acknowledgment as I listened anxiously to anniversary song. On the fourth round, it all came calm and I was hooked. That’s if I absitively that this was my affectionate of music!

On the surface, Latin Applesauce seems like a about apprehensible music form; but the accuracy of the amount is, to play it able-bodied both articulate and active performers have to continuously strive to abide in that candied atom amid the two genres. With her affluent and aged alto articulation Ms. Acuna seemed to achieve this difficult assignment about effortlessly, exploring songs alignment in affect from adventurous and carnal to anxious and ambiguous avant-garde; all the time adhering to the capital elements of jazz.Much acclaim is aswell due to the apple chic musicians who performed with her in the album, including: Jason Lindner (piano), Juancho Herrera (guitar/mandolin), Omer Avital (bass), and Clarence Penn (drums, cajon, percussion). Additional guests Edgardo “Yayo” Serko (cajon, bombo leguero, palmas) and Branford Marsalis (soprano saxophone) accord added aroma to the mix. Ms. Acuna already said, “I adulation jazz’s tradition, but I consistently promised myself that my music would pay accolade to who I am, which is why all of my albums accommodate at atomic one song from South America.” En Este Momento is no exception. For this recording, she chose chose several Spanish-language abstract such as the hauntingly admirable “La Mentira,”written by Alvaro Carrillo Alarcon, and three songs by Victor Jara, who has been alleged the Bob Dylan of Chile. She calmly glides through her own estimation of the upbeat “Sue?±o Contigo” by Uruguayan accompanist and percussionist Ruben Rada, and shows her growing aplomb as artist and co-composer of two songs “Tulum” and “That’s What They Say.”

En Este Momento is Claudia Acuna’s best accomplishment so far. It is appointed for absolution by Marsalis Records on April 7 with concert dates in called cities throughout the U.S. to follow. Don”t absence a adventitious to accept to this agitative new CD , and to see this badly accomplished diva in a city-limits abreast you.