Cover image for Cuba [CD] : the conversation continues
Title:
Cuba [CD] : the conversation continues
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Motema Music, [2015]

℗2015
Physical Description:
2 compact discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet.
General Note:
Title from disc labels.

Compact discs.

"These compositions -- by five American composers and four Cuban composers -- were commissioned specially for this recording to continue a musical conversation between two cultures, which Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo famously helped to ignite when they met in 1947."--Container.

Program notes in English (14 unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Performers:
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra ; with special guests ; Arturo O'Farrill, piano and music director.
Contents:
Disc 1. The triumphant journey / Dafnis Prieto (6:03) -- The Afro Latin jazz suite. Mother Africa ; All of the Americas ; Adagio ; What now? / Arturo O'Farrill (21:41) -- Guajira simple / Alexis Bosch (9:28) -- Alabanza / Michele Rosewoman (9:45) -- Blues guaguancó / Bobby Carcassés (6:02) --

Disc 2. Vaca frita / Arturo O'Farrill (8:33) -- Just one moment / Michel Herrera (3:07) -- El bombón / "Cotó" Juan de la Cruz Antomarchi (7:09) -- Second line soca (Brudda Singh) / Earl McIntyre (6:17) -- There's a statue of José Martí in Central Park / Zack O'Farrill (13:08).
Language:
Spanish
Additional Language:
Sung in Spanish.
Added Title:
Bombón.
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