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The Charleston
Gazette:
...if you closed your eyes for a few minutes, you might have thought
you were in Havana
in 1950.
Jonathan Rodgers
JazzTimes:
...solid musicianship, the right dash of sabor, and a refreshing
absence of self-indulgence.
Marcela Breton
Latin Beat Magazine:
...What would this world be like without any percussion instruments? For some, life would be the same as always, but it wouldn't be the same for others who regard said instruments as the musical bloodline to the soul.
Latin jazz would be virtually non-existent without it, as documented in the music recently recorded by Sammy Figueroa, Chembo Corniel, Bobby Sanabria, Poncho Sánchez, Nils Fischer, Francisco Mela, Egüi Castrillo, Bobby Matos, John Santos, Rolando Matias, Ignacio Berroa, Dafnis Prieto, Mayra Casales, David Mora, Marlon Simón, Tito de Gracia, Paoli Mejías, and countless more.
Nelson Rodriguez
Latin Beat Magazine:
Matos is also a guest on the new Rolando Matias Live Volume One, which has captured some great moments with his band. This disc, recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a must-have for collectors..
Nelson Rodriguez
The Other Paper:
Columbus
...anyway, people were having more fun on the other side by the river
Sunday, where the Afro-Rican Ensemble had'em on their feet,...
Lee Brown
The Paper:
Grand Rapids
With its full spread of Latin Percussion, the band attracted record
attendance, absolutely shaking the crowd with its hypnotizing Latin
swing.
Julie Strand
The Latin Jazz Corner
Live Volume One:
Pelatula, CA
...traditional jazz musicians have spent decades building, destroying, and reconstructing the harmonic foundation of jazz.
Latin Jazz musicians have emphasized rhythmic diversity, exploring the connections between jazz and a variety of Caribbean and South American traditions.
Paths often cross through the stylistic embellishment of jazz standards with fixed harmonic forms, and diverge between avant-garde and Latin music.
Rolando Matias and his Afro-Rican Ensemble bring all jazz roads together into an intriguing mixture of risk, experimentation and history on Live Volume One...
Chip Boat
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