Danilo Pérez: Providencia – review

(Mack Avenue)Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez has worked with Dizzy Gillespie's last band and Wayne Shorter's remarkable quartet. This structurally ambitious session, with voices and assorted classical instrumentation, at times sounds puzzled by its own formal preoccupations. Daniela's Chronicles (with a theme that eerily recalls Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells) unwraps the leader's piano eloquence, as his hands play call-and-response, or blend in stretches of cruising double-time. The fiery contr...

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