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| Ignacio Berroa Releases 'Codes' Drummer Ignacio Berroa is a great sideman, who worked with Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, and Charlie Haden, as well as such Latin-Jazz masters as Mario Bauza, Tito Puente, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Danilo Perez and Brazilians Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins, Joao Bosco, Gal Gosta, and Lenny Andrade. But only now Berroa releases his own project as a leader. His exceptional debut, Codes, released on Blue Note Records. Co-produced by Berroa, Rubalcaba, and Ricardo (Eddy) Martinez, the eight-track album is a distinctive jazz-meets-Latin project that seamlessly weaves the intrinsically stylistic 'codes' of both genres of music - as opposed to a swingin' affair merely ornamented with Afro-Cuban rhythms or a Latin date with occasional infusion of the jazz lilt. The result is a CD where the swing and blues of jazz mesh organically with the Afro-Cuban clave and congas to create a rare hybrid of scintillating tempos and romantic melodies. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |