Latin From The North - Latin From The North
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SLAM317
Take the Plaza Jazz Trio (Steve Waterman, George Haslam and Robin Jones) - a quirky, stripped down to the bones Latin jazz ensemble, fresh from working in Cuba with members of Irakere and the Buena Vista Social Club. Add Stekpanna (Mads Kjlby Olesen, Steve Kershaw and Petter Svrd) - a groovy Anglo-Scandinavian trio just returned from a major tour of philharmonic halls in Russia. Provide a venue - the Kaamosjazz festival held under the Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland, where each trio happens to be playing independently. Make all six musicians share vodka and reindeer steak together in -40? arctic cold, and that is the moment when they decide to put the two trios together and inject a little Latin sunshine into the permafrost. Throw in the fact that the Arts Council of England thought this was a really good idea and granted some generous funding, and you have the birth of Latin From the North. The musical result is a Latin Jazz project uniting Stekpanna's hip Nordic cool with the fiery horns and Latin percussion of the Plaza Trio. The music on this CD blends great compositions, vibrant improvisation and infectious rhythms, all derived from places as apparently disparate as Cuba, Brazil, Scandinavia and the UK. [Slam]