Bob Chadwick - flutes;
David
Caceres - alto & tenor sax; Warren Sneed – tenor & soprano
sax; Dennis
Dotson - trumpet; Paul English - piano,
flugel horn, trumpet; Thomas Hulten – trombone; Brennen Nase - guitar; Guil
Fonseca - guitar; Jeffry Eckels - Bass; Dean
Macomber - drums;
Jorge
Orta - Cro-Cro, percussion; Tony Parana - percussion; James
Metcalfe - percussion; Marcia
Sterling - violin; Oleg Sulyga - violin; Dan Strba – viola; Shino Hayashi - cello.
(Review by Debra).
Venezuelan jazz
singer Raquel Cepeda is now resident in Houston ,
on account of her day job (no doubt far better paid) , as a geologist in the Texas
‘Tonada
de Luna LLena’, by compatriot Simon Diaz, is the outstanding track, with
Cepeda’s powerful, warm timbred vocal
overlying Andean flutes and percussion. Her
expressiveness is similarly effective in
the ballad s which make up much
of the rest of the album, particularly Somios Novios and Besame Mucho. The up tempo
numbers – What Is This Thing
Called Love?, I Don’t Know Enough About You, East of The Sun - give
the band, led by Paul English,
pianist and album producer, a chance to really swing, and the opportunity for
the various musicians to make solo
contributions. However, there is little
improvisation from Cepeda, nor much variation in the phrasing or timing of her
vocal delivery of the lyrics. Not surprisingly,
her fine voice is really at home
with the Latin component of her
repertoire, and that is likely to be
where her musical future, and possibly also her audience, lies…..
Debra.
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