Danilo Perez - Across The Crystal Sea

Artist: Danilo Perez
Album: Across The Crystal Sea
Year: 2008
Genre: Jazz
Format, bitrate: mp3 320kb
Size: 84 MB

Editorial Reviews

Ben Ratliff- NEW YORK TIMES
"When the dust settles, the pianist DANILO PEREZ will be looking like one of the best things that happened to jazz around the turn of the millennium. This Panamanian musician is literate in Latin American rhythms, and so part of the wave of the recent, more culturally specific and vastly improved Latin jazz scene. But he is also, in a larger sense, defining post-Hancock, post-Jarrett mainstream jazz piano, with his harmonic knowledge and his will to make a piano trio exciting and fluid."

Product Description
Across the Crystal Sea is the latest chapter in Pérez's extraordinary career as a pianist and bandleader who delivers a distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz that covers the music of the Americas, folkloric and world music. He's not only impressed critics (for example, The New York Times' Ben Ratliff writing that he is "a bold example of the musicological rethinking of jazz"), but also fellow musicians. Wayne Shorter says that Pérez "has all of the attributes of a performer, conductor, impresario and purveyor of musical expression greatly needed in these uncertain times" while Herbie Hancock says that Pérez is "not afraid of anything."

Track Listing:

01 - Across The Crystal Sea
02 - Rays And Shadows
03 - Lazy Afternoon
04 - The Purple Condor
05 - If I Forget You
06 - (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings
07 - The Saga Of Rita Joe
08 - Another Autumn

Personnel:

Christian McBride - bass instrument
Lewis Nash - drum
Cassandra Wilson - vocals
Danilo Perez - piano
Luis Quintero - percussion

Conducted and Arranged by Claus Ogerman