Harris/Sánchez/Scott: Ninety Miles – review

(Concord)The title refers to the distance between the United States and Cuba – this album featuring American contemporary jazz stars David Sánchez (sax), Christian Scott (trumpet) and Stefon Harris (vibes) being the culmination of a year of negotiations to get a Cuban/American band into a Havana studio. The music is a splicing of maze-like 21st-century post-bop melodies and sensuous Cuban dance rhythms (from two quartets led by local pianists Rember Duharte and Harold Lopez-Nussa) and if it h...

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