It could be said that \u201cTumbao\u201d is for Latin music what the swing is for Jazz. Do you know the Duke Ellington tune: \u201cIt don\u2019t mean a thing if it ain\u2019t got that swing\u201d? So, how about \u201cif it ain\u2019t got that tumbao\u201d? I hope you\u2019ve got the idea now.
\nThis album adds new ingredients to the mix of Venezuelan music, Cuban music, and jazz I\u2019ve been doing for a number of years \u2013 for example, Changui and Nengon, Cuban folkloric genres that both originated in the eastern part of the island. The first has a great rhythmic complexity, but a strong danceable spirit. The second could represent the clearest forerunner of Cuban Son. For me, Nengon also has personal significance since my father, musicologist Danilo Orozco, was the one who brought it to light for the very first time through his research in the early 80s, embodied in the album \u201cAntologia Integral del Son.\u201d On the Venezuelan side, although I have previously recorded Joropos, this is the first time I have composed one, which besides the jazz influence, has the characteristic beat and refrain of the eastern Venezuelan Joropo. You will also hear a Venezuelan Merengue with a Cuban Montuno, a Funk style song adorned with Afro-Venezuelan drums, and a Cuban-flavored ballad, among other things. In the end, my goal is to transmit emotions through the music and show that there are absolutely \u201cNo limits for Tumbao\u201d \u2014Cesar Orozco
\nProduced & Arranged By: Cesar Orozco
\nCo-Produced By: Rodner Padilla
\nWith Special Guests \u2013 Paquito D’Rivera,
\nPedrito Martinez, Gary Thomas, Yovany Terry,
\nLuisito Quintero, Vladimir Quintero, Linda Briceno,
\nPablo Bencid, Zamira Brinceno
\nCesar Orozco & Kamarata Jazz transmit emotions through ‘No Limits For Tumbao’
\n“Latin jazz has so many different rhythms that you need an encyclopedia just to keep up! However you certainly don\u2019t need an encyclopedia to compel you to get into the music of Cesar Orozco & Kamarata! With No Limits For Tumbao, the Alfi Records recording artists achieve their goal of transmitting emotions through their music via 10 great songs produced and arranged by Cesar Orozco and co-produced by Rodner Padilla. Orozco also wrote six of the ten songs on the recording and plays the acoustic piano, keyboards, Fender Rhodes and provided backing vocals! You might say he was quite busy making this recording happen!
\nAlongside the core unit of Cesar Orozco, Rodner Padilla on bass, Francisco Vielma on percussion and Euro Zambrano on drums, No Limits For Tumbao features guest musicians Paquito D\u2019Rivera, Pedrito Martinez, Gary Thomas, Yosvany Terry, Luisito Quintero, Vladimir Quintero, Linda Briceno, Pablo Bencid and Zamira Briceno. Together they make these tracks come alive with vigor, energy and the passionate rhythms of Latin jazz and show that they can hold their own with just about any other Latin jazz ensemble.
\nOpening with the title track, this album adds new ingredients to Orozco\u2019s mix of Venezuelan, Cuban and jazz music. \u201cNo Limits For Tumbao\u201d is a Latinization of jazz\u2019s swing style and has several rhythms to add additional flavorings. The tumbao rhythm is not as mainstream as salsa or swing for that matter, but this rhythm can attest to being a greater part of the whole Latin jazz scene.
\nOrozco makes his way further into the elements of mainstream American jazz with a song written by Pedro Speck titled \u201cLa Rumba Estate Buena (Changui).\u201d This song is permeated with chang\u00fci rhythms (a forerunner of Cuban Son) and incites you to tap your feet to its happy feeling. \u201cJorozco\u201d (certainly a play on Cesar\u2019s surname!) is his first attempt at composing a joropo. This lovely song exudes the Venezuelan rhythm within a pure jazz framework that spotlights the amazing talent of soprano saxophonist Paquito D\u2019Rivera and the Venezuelan maracas playing of Manuel Rangel.
\nThe recording also features a Venezuelan Merenque with a Cuban Montano, and a Funk styled song titled \u201cFaith\u201d that is characterized by the Afro-Venezuelan drumming of Francisco Vielma. With the boom in Latin jazz and its main rhythmic engines, by listening to No Limits For Tumbao, mainstream America is once more getting some exposure to what are classics in Latin culture.”
\n-Paula Edelstein
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