Leírás
Jazz, Latin Jazz, Modern Electric Jazz, Dance Party Jazz, 2024-es album.
Limited edition bakelit lemez LP kiadvány, Első rész, 2025.
Trumpet virtuoso Jonathan Powell (Eddie Palmieri, Blood Sweat & Tears) will release the Latin Jazz release “Mambo Jazz Party” Circle 9 Records on August 9th, 2024. A current member of both Blood Sweat & Tears and Eddie Palmieri’s ensembles, trumpeter and composer Jonathan Powell has been noted for his “crackling range and the electricity of his imagination” as a soloist (Nat Hentoff, JazzTimes). Limited edition 6-panel digisleeve with complete liner notes by Michael Ambrosino. Album art by Nadja von Massow / nad.works.
From the first seconds of the opening track, trumpeter Jonathan Powell immediately signals that his new album Mambo Jazz Party is no ordinary record. With irresistible layers of groove and the indomitably danceable feels of Latin Jazz spurred eternally forward by the campana (cowbell), the audience is instantly hooked. Drawing on two decades of expertise as a sideman for Latin Jazz legends such as Eddie Palmieri, Arturo O’Farrill, Miguel Zenon, Oscar Hernandez and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and Tito Puente Jr., Powell assembles a rotating 18-piece ensemble that brings the party of great, danceable Latin Jazz and Mambo and combines it with the aesthetic of modern electric jazz on Mambo Jazz Party, releasing August 9, 2024 via Circle 9.
The album features a curated blend of original compositions and arrangements, both of which come together to acknowledge the various traditions and pioneers who paved the way for Powell, directly and indirectly. Atop this musical cogitation comes guitarist Nir Felder’s searing solo that fans into flame the entire work. The album’s co-producer Doug Beavers contributed the arrangement of Chick Corea’s “You’re Everything”. In this version, the melody is reworked in spanish and the piece is presented within the salsa idiom. Powell’s arrangement of Joe Henderson’s timeless “Inner Urge” uses ever-shifting time signatures to emphasize and reimagine the harmonic structure in newfound ways. The great Eddie Palmieri is actively acknowledged by the band through the arrangement of “Un Dia Bonita II”, reworked by Angel Fernandez and featuring vocals by Anthony Almonte.
Mambo Jazz Party features a scintillating personnel list in varying combinations throughout the album. Featuring the bandleader, Jonathan Powell, on trumpet and flugelhorn, Mambo Jazz Party comprises Andrew Gould (alto saxophone), the bandleader’s brother, Jeremy Powell (tenor saxophone, flute), Jimmy Bosch (trombone), Doug Beavers (trombone), Itai Kriss (flute), Louis Fouche (alto saxophone), Nir Felder (electric guitar), Axel Tosca (piano, rhodes, synthesizer), Manuel Valera (rhodes, synthesizer), Luques Curtis (bass), Camilo Molina (drums, timbales, percussion), Marcos Lopez (congas), Marcos Torres (congas), Luisito Quintero (bongos, campana, percussion), Ariacne Trujillo (lead voice), Anthony Almonte (lead voice, choir), Jeremy Bosch (choir). Of this group of exemplary musicians Powell remarks, “They each brought their personal voice, experience and really personified the title. We were just a group of friends having fun in the studio.”
YouTube video:
Live on KUVO!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjFUbRf9Z_s
Felvételek:
LP:
Side A:
1. Juancito (feat. Jimmy Bosch & Louis Fouché) 07:05
2. Hope (feat. Nir Felder & Itai Kriss) 06:48
3. You’re Everything (feat. Ariacne Trujilo) 05:54
Side B:
4. Butterfly (feat. Manuel Valera) 06:03
5. Inner Urge 06:49
6. Un Dia Bonito II Intro 01:46
7. Un Dia Bonito II (feat. Anthony Almonte) 06:30
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