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WILLIAM CEPEDA AFRO-RICAN JAZZ
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| "William Cepeda plays amplified, heavily percussive music buoyed by its rhythmic complexities and its bursts of bright-edged brass playing" | ||
| Allan Kozinn, The New York Times | ||
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"....It is clear that Cepeda and Afro-Rican Jazz are poised to carve out a new genre" |
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| Richard Thorpe, Boston Globe | ||
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"Trombonist Cepeda blends jazz, bomba y plena. The results are smart, powerful and elegantly rootsy" |
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| Fernando Gonzalez, The Miami Herald | ||
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"...and there are many other unique and tasty compositions included throughout the rest of the recording." |
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| Luis Tamargo, Latin Beat Magazine | ||
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"....this is not quite jazz we've heard before, and thank God for that. At least somebody is up there swinging beyond hard-bop nouveau." |
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| Karl Stark, The Philadelphia Inquirer | ||
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"My mouth dropped when I heard these releases, Sporting a perfect melding of Afro-Caribbean music, Latin Jazz, and African rhythms, this duo release by the incomparable William Cepeda is at the head of the 1999 world music class." |
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| Sarah Zupko, Billboard Top 30 | ||
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"William Cepeda, the next step in Latin music." |
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| Lester Bowie, Innovator/Trumpetplayer | ||
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My Roots and Beyond" sets out to elevate Puerto Rican jazz to the Afro-Cuban level." |
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| Karl Stark, The Philadelphia Inquirer | ||
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"The playing is intense and precise, and throughout the music sounds fresh, rich with the unexpected references and subtle surprises." |
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| Amazon.Com | ||
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"Each of these CDs is a worthy effort. But together they provide a vision beyond that of each alone. Very beautiful." |
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| Bruce Ishikawa, Picadillo Featured Albums | ||
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"William Cepeda, rey de la bomba y del jazz." |
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| Jorge Rodriguez, El Vocero, San Juan, PR | ||
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"...a more progressive aesthetic happening, combining jazz, funk, fusion with Puerto Rican bomba into a unified whole that is eminently danceable and musically electrifying. Highly recommended." |
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| Michael G. Nastos, CD Review | ||
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"This experimental concept goes a step beyond the limits of the music they call latin jazz." |
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| Caetano Caro, El Noticiero Mundial | ||
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"William Cepeda will take you a step ahead into another world of music...this concept must be heard" |
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| Joe Bless, Root Music Press | ||
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"...Y con William Cepeda nació el AfroricanJazz con una interpretacion majistral y un sonido insuperable" |
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| Marjorie Aponte Gomez, El Nuevo Dia, San Juan, PR | ||
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