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Traditions - CD
CD Traditions – Angel David Mattos
This is the new release of Puerto Rican pianist Angel David Mattos. It was recorded in August 2007 with Paquito D´Rivera (clarinet), Bob Mintzer (sax and bass clarinet), Oscar Stagnaro (bass), Hector Mattos (drums), Aldemar Valentín (bass) and Ricardo Pons (flute). After the award winning CD Danzzaj (2004), Angel David returns bringing a concept where Puerto Rican Folkloric music and Jazz meet as equals, each contributing to create a musical concept in terms of melody, structure, harmony, rhythm and improvisation.
This is the new release of Puerto Rican pianist Angel David Mattos. It was recorded in August 2007 with Paquito D´Rivera (clarinet), Bob Mintzer (sax and bass clarinet), Oscar Stagnaro (bass), Hector Mattos (drums), Aldemar Valentín (bass) and Ricardo Pons (flute). After the award winning CD Danzzaj (2004), Angel David returns bringing a concept where Puerto Rican Folkloric music and Jazz meet as equals, each contributing to create a musical concept in terms of melody, structure, harmony, rhythm and improvisation.
Danzzaj - award winning CD
Latin Beat Magazine Review
Following the steps of the traditional jazz quartet format, pianist/composer/arranger Angel David Mattos (native of Bayamon, Puerto Rico) delivers a dazzling performance in the company of friends John Benitez (bass), Hector Mattos and Antonio Sanchez (drums), and Bob Mintzer (saxophone). The entire repertoire is based on the fusion of jazz harmonies and melodies with those of the syncopated rhythm patternsof the Puerto Rican danza ( created during the first half of the 19th century as flokloric music based on Spanish "contra danza" and syncopated rhythmic patterns with strong African influences). The beauty of the danza is rejuvenated in the hands of Mattos through six original scores, three classical danza compositions from Juan Morel Campos ( No me toques, Felices dias,and Maldito Amor) and the selction Margarita by Manuel G. Tavarez. Danza jazz or as Mattos calls it, Danzzaj, is the profound reflection on the interaction between a classic Caribbean musical form with that of the North American jazz music; definitely something very special and truly deserving of the name jazz Latino.
Rudy Mangual, Editor-in-chief Latin Beat Magazine
Following the steps of the traditional jazz quartet format, pianist/composer/arranger Angel David Mattos (native of Bayamon, Puerto Rico) delivers a dazzling performance in the company of friends John Benitez (bass), Hector Mattos and Antonio Sanchez (drums), and Bob Mintzer (saxophone). The entire repertoire is based on the fusion of jazz harmonies and melodies with those of the syncopated rhythm patternsof the Puerto Rican danza ( created during the first half of the 19th century as flokloric music based on Spanish "contra danza" and syncopated rhythmic patterns with strong African influences). The beauty of the danza is rejuvenated in the hands of Mattos through six original scores, three classical danza compositions from Juan Morel Campos ( No me toques, Felices dias,and Maldito Amor) and the selction Margarita by Manuel G. Tavarez. Danza jazz or as Mattos calls it, Danzzaj, is the profound reflection on the interaction between a classic Caribbean musical form with that of the North American jazz music; definitely something very special and truly deserving of the name jazz Latino.
Rudy Mangual, Editor-in-chief Latin Beat Magazine
Preludio
Angel David´s first CD production