What is it about Latin bands? The music is so infectious - close your eyes and you're back in the 1940s doing the rhumba or the mambo or the cha-cha-cha with, say, Carmen Miranda at the Copacabana - open them and you're back to the cold reality of Covid and conflict.
Nevertheless, this album is nearer Birdland than the Copa and, whilst maintaining the rhythms from south of the border, successfully incorporates them into the jazz lexicon.
The repertoire is, in the main, song book classics given a Latin twist. It could be argued, and I wouldn't disagree, that Quintero has incorporated the two genres better than anyone else since the bossa-nova years of the 1960s. Lance
Alone together;Mambo Balahu; The Gentle Rain; Manha De Carnivál; Table For Five; Song For my Father; Porque Si Queres; Days of Wine and Roses; Giant Steps; Beautiful Love.
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