Francisco Mela - Cirio: Live at the Blue Note
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Artist: Francisco MelaEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Single
CD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Music Label: Half Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Tierra And Fuego
- Channel 2
- Cirio
- Maria
- Pequena Serenata de Urna
- Benes
- Urick Mela
- Afro Son
Description of Cirio: Live at the Blue Note
It's no secret that for most of the 20th Century, Cuban music and musicians played important roles in influencing and revitalizing North American popular culture. From Ernesto Lecuona and Desi Arnaz to Chano Pozo, Paquito D'Rivera and Gloria Estefan, a wide stylistic panorama, from classical to pop and jazz idioms, has been constantly invigorated by the presence of supremely talented Cuban musicians and their distinctive music traditions.Half Note Records will release Cirio (Sept. 23), Francisco Mela's first live record and second recording as a leader. The Cuban-born drummer assembles a superior cast of playmates - Jason Moran, Lionel Loueke, Mark Turner and Larry Grenadier - for this live recording captured at the Blue Note Club in New York City. Together they make music informed by the rhythms of Mela's homeland, while also going beyond into adventurous modern jazz. In the process, he evinces a versatility rare among young players; his interactions with different combinations of group members underscore his collaborative instincts.
His debut release, Melao (AYVA Musica) which The Village Voice called the best debut by a jazz artist in 2006 (in the newspaper's first annual jazz critics poll), included luminaries such as Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Jane Bunnett, Anat Cohen and Lionel Loueke. Since then, Mela has increasingly become one of the most talked about and in-demand drummers on the scene in New York and beyond. He is currently a favorite among elite jazz instrumentalists such as Joe Lovano (Us Five), John Scofield (John Scofield Trio), Joanne Brackeen and as a regular member of Kenny Barron's working trio, all of whom cite his charisma, sophistication, and life-affirming spirit.
He brings to this impassioned performance compositions inspired by family - his recently departed father Cirio as well as his newborn son (the portrait of his father, Cirio, on the cover of the album was drawn by Mela as a pre-teen).
''One of the most important Cuban drummers in jazz. ''
- JazzTimes
''Mr. Mela is a bandleader on the rise. ''
- The New York Times
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