ARTIST...: Tino Contreras
TITLE....: El Jazz Mexicano de Tino Contreras
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Jazzman
CAT.NO...: JMANCD043
GENRE....: Jazz
TIME.....: 67:00 min
SIZE.....: 153,7 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Full Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/04/14
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (02:54) Orfeo en los Tambores
02) (03:35) Malaguena
03) (04:05) En el Viejo Estambul
04) (03:27) Santo
05) (03:30) Safo la Sacerdotiza del Amor
06) (03:03) Credo
07) (03:46) Poinciana Poinciana Poinciana
08) (05:28) El Hombre del Brazo do Oro
09) (03:57) Jazz en al Cairo
10) (02:52) What is this Thing Called Love
11) (03:17) Visnu
12) (04:24) Gloria
13) (02:15) Rescate
14) (04:17) Kyrie
15) (04:51) Orbita
16) (11:19) Ravi Shankar
INTRODUCTION
Our never-ending mission to reveal the under-appreciated-yet-worthy-of-attention jazz
masters around the world has now taken us far away and across the sea to Mexico. Not
the first port of call you'd consider if you were looking for hard bop or modal jazz,
but here we have found an incredible jazz drummer whose career has spanned over 5
decades, and is still playing to this day. In that time Tino Contreras has produced
countless recordings, played on innumerable live dates, and has performed with
various jazz groups all around the world. Yet he is still relatively unknown, and
probably Mexico's best kept secret in jazz.
We tell the story of the maverick that is Tino Contreras and showcase his unique and
fascinating career with 16 tracks, a 12 page colour CD booklet and a double gatefold
LP.
THE MUSIC
During his far-reaching travels over the years, all kinds of weird and wonderful
sounds have come to influence the music of the imaginative Mexican jazzman. Hear
latinesque ritual chants in Orfeo en los Tambores, insane percussion in the
high-tempo jazz-dance favourite What is This Thing Called Love, avant-garde
experimentation with a psychedelic subframe in Orbita, exotic waltz-time jazz in
Visnu and religiously-themed chamber jazz with choir in Credo, Santo and Gloria. Not
only that, but noted influences from India, Egypt, Turkey and Brasil create a most
fascinating jazz album, the likes of which you will most likely never have heard
before. Enjoy!
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