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| Dafnis Prieto Quintet at Jazz Bakery Dafnis Prieto Quintet (Yosvany Terry saxophones Peter Apfelbaum saxophones Osmany Paredes piano Yunior Terry bass Dafnis Prieto drums )will play Oct 12-16 at , Los Angeles. ”The Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto has been translating centuries of hand-drum tradition into jazz percussion for the trap set. His playing often involves three fast rhythms at once, and his precision is mesmerizing. About the Monks (Zoho), his own first record, is some of the best of New York's new Latin-jazz movement, distinguished by complex, jaggedly modern writing, but also by a deep cultural literacy of Cuban folklore.” -–The New York Times Since he arrived in New York in 1999, the Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto has been translating centuries of hand-drum tradition into jazz percussion for the trap set. His playing often involves three fast rhythms at once, and his precision is mesmerizing. At first he was an overbooked sideman with bandleaders as far apart as the avant-gardist Henry Threadgill and the salsa patriarch Eddie Palmieri. But he has developed his own compositional ambitions, and at last here's the result. On “About the Monks” (Zoho), his own first record, he plays with his most frequent collaborators - the trumpeter Brian Lynch, the saxophonist Yosvany Terry, the pianist Luis Perdomo and the bassist Hans Glawischnig. It's some of the best of New York's new Latin-jazz movement, distinguished by complex, jaggedly modern writing, but also by a deep cultural literacy of Cuban folklore. - BEN RATLIFF NEW YORK TIMES write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |