Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround – This Is Latin Jazz (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround – This Is Latin Jazz (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:55 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HighNote Records

Although many people may not realize it, Puerto Rico is the home of a vibrant and thriving jazz scene. It is here that Latin Jazz trumpeter Charlie Sepúlveda lives and does the bulk of his playing but he is certainly no stranger to New York City. Born in the Bronx, Sepúlveda appeared regularly in the Big Apple throughout the 70s and 80s with his cousin – a Latin Jazz pianist of some notoriety named Eddie Palmieri – and the likes of Mongo Santamaria, Dave Valentin, Tito Puente and countless others. He is currently a Professor at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of music and leads one of the island’s most popular jazz ensembles, The Turnaround. The band is a collection of celebrity jazz chefs who mix together a tasty dish of Latin Jazz, hard bop and Afro-American rhythms. “Today, what is called ‘Latin Jazz’ is different in so many ways. Earlier it was oriented towards Afro-Cuban styles,” Charlie said in an interview, “I play the traditional form of Latin jazz mixed with hard bop and always with Puerto Rican styles like Bomba, Plena, and Danza.” So it was only natural that Sepúlveda name this live recording from NYC’s jazz Mecca Dizzy’s, This is Latin Jazz, since it features the type of music the trumpeter grew up playing and on which he cut his musical teeth. An all-star group of his colleagues showed up to play with the band including Randy Brecker, Miguel Zenon, Steve Turre and Nestor Torres. Sepúlveda’s cherished wife Natalia Mercado also provides a vocal on the touching ballad, “Alfonsina y el Mar.” An important recording from one of the most beloved and respected instrumentalists, leaders and composers in Latin Jazz, Charlie Sepúlveda.

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround – Songs for Nat (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround – Songs for Nat (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:15 minutes | 669 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HighNote Records

Puerto Rican trumpeter Charlie Sepúlveda has been a fixture of the Latin jazz world since the late 1980s when he played in the band of pianist and composer Eddie Palmieri. ‘Songs for Nat’ is his second album for HighNote after 2017’s well-received ‘Mr. EP – A Tribute to Eddie Palmieri’. During the 1990s, a renaissance period for el jazz Latino, the brassman toured and recorded with an array of great artists including Tito Puente and the Golden Latin Jazz All Stars, Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nation Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Hilton Ruiz, Steve Turre, Dave Valentin, Danilo Pérez, and Paul Simon among others. He launched his own group, The Turnaround, 25 years ago, and has been turning the tables on the traditional Latin jazz format ever since.

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