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Jane Bunnett / Cuban Odyssey
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Jane Bunnett
Since 1982, soprano saxophonist and flautist Jane Bunnett and trumpeter Larry Cramer, her spouse, have brought a jazz sensibility to the study and performance of traditional Afro-Cuban idioms, a steadfast pursuit whose enduring inspirations pervade Cuban Odyssey. In 2002, shadowed by a crew from the National Film Board of Canada, Bunnett and Cramer trekked across the island, hooking up with many notable collaborators, as heard on their award-winning documentary video, Spirits of Havana. Like prior collaborations with a small multitude of the island's leading innovators, Cuban Odyssey presents live performances from the film, and further material logged along the way, in an orchestrated tour-de-force of contemporary Cuban roots music.
Projecting the infectious vitality of the island's musical foundations, the many notable contributors include singers Merceditas Vald�s (now deceased) and scat-master Bobby Carcass�s, pianists Hilario Duran and Guillermo Rubalcaba, Papi Oviedo (tres), Chang�ito (timbales), the conga trio of Tata G�ines, Pancho Quinto and Maximino, enduring son proponents Los Naranjos de Cienfuegos, rumba royalty Los Mu�equitos de Matanzas, and Desandann, the lyrically haunting vocal group of Haitian descent from Camag�ey, in eastern Cuba. The textured nuances of this recording make it one of the freshest, loosest and most erudite explorations of folk-inspired Cuban music in some time, conspicuous for its musical intelligence in a field rife with derivative labors. Cuban Odyssey embraces the son, rumba, Afro-Cuban-Haitian a cappella, descarga, jazz and beyond, performed with the assurance, communal joy, straight-ahead virtuosity and self-effacing spirit long characteristic of Bunnett and her artistic compa�eros, remapping the multiple tributaries of Cuban expressive traditions in revelatory fashion. - Michael Stone
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