bertrand Posted January 23, 2011 Report Posted January 23, 2011 (edited) Is this worth getting for the Joe Chambers nut that I am? Bertrand. Edited January 23, 2011 by bertrand Quote
JSngry Posted January 23, 2011 Report Posted January 23, 2011 Yes, very much so. I bought it back in the day thinking tht it was going to be a straight-up "Latin-Jazz" album (I was just beginning to discover the idiom for real) & was very disappointed that it wasn't. Traded it away within a month a forgot about it until the recent reissue. Revisited it and realized what a fool I had been to not pay better attention back then. Long story short, the music is a very organic (as I hear it) "fusion" of Latin rhytmic elements, post-modal jazz harmonic elements, soling that is totally at home with the concepts of each, and an overall group dynamic that feels like everybody is on the same page. None of that mattered to me then because none of it was what I was looking for. But better late than never, right? Also remember, if for no reasons other than trivia, that both Mantilla & Chambers were involed in M'Boom at the time. So who knows how much/what other stuff like this was coming out of that orb that wasn't documented? Maybe none, but it was a fertile time in a then-fertile place, and there was a fair amount of "cross-pollination" going on in general. Along those same lines, there are two albums by some guy named Bobby Vince Panutto (sp?) from about the same time, maybe a tad earlier, that I didn't know about until a few months ago that have a lot of the same ideas tastefully brewing, as well as another one by Jorge Lopez Ruiz that's got both Steig & Gomez that's even more in the vein of the Matilla album, only moreso. So yeah, check it out. Quote
mikeweil Posted January 23, 2011 Report Posted January 23, 2011 There is an LP by Austrian guitarist Karl Ratzer on Vanguard with a similar personnel. Quote
sidewinder Posted January 24, 2011 Report Posted January 24, 2011 Didn't this one originally come out on East Wind as a 'direct cut' LP? Mantilla is on the 'Pentagon' LP with Clifford Jordan and Cedar Walton, also on that label. The Inner City must have been the US imprint. Quote
brownie Posted January 24, 2011 Report Posted January 24, 2011 Didn't this one originally come out on East Wind as a 'direct cut' LP? Mantilla is on the 'Pentagon' LP with Clifford Jordan and Cedar Walton, also on that label. The Inner City must have been the US imprint. No. The Inner City was the original release. Does not look like the album was ever reissued. Quote
Bright Moments Posted July 13, 2011 Report Posted July 13, 2011 i just spun "synergy" recommended!! Quote
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