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The last time Cuban-born, Canada-based pianist Hilario Durán released a big band album with 2006's From the Heart, he picked up a Grammy nomination and won the Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Seventeen years later, he delivers his follow-up, 2023's Cry Me a River, his second album to feature his 19-piece Latin Jazz Big Band. A virtuoso performer, composer, and bandleader, Durán initially garnered acclaim in the 1970s after taking over the piano chair from Chucho Valdés in Cuba's famed Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna. From there, he spent over a decade with trumpeter Arturo Sandoval before settling in Canada. He has distinguished himself since then as one of the leading lights of Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz, continually broadening the stylistic traditions he grew up with and weaving in post-bop jazz and classical harmonies. Cry Me a River expands upon this legacy as Durán brings together his varied influences into a cohesive and sophisticated style. Cuts like the opening "Pacá por Juanito" and "Mambo y Tumbao" are exuberantly kinetic Latin jazz dance numbers that nicely update the sound bandleaders like Tito Puente popularized from the '50s onward. We also get the dusky romanticism of "Claudia," a lyrical ballad played emotively by alto saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, a longtime associate of Durán. Also making vital contributions are his longtime drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez and bassist Roberto Occhipinti, the latter of whom lays down a funky acoustic groove on the hip-hop-meets-hard-bop tribute to Charles Mingus, "I Remember Mingus." Elsewhere, Durán carves out plenty of solo space for his band on his arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie's classic "A Night in Tunisia," and combines swinging jazz with the romantic classical work of composer Frédéric Chopin on "Fantasia Impromptu." Central to the album is Durán's cover of the standard "Cry Me a River," made famous by singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Julie London, and which he uses here to showcase the equally vibrant talents of singer and violinist Elizabeth Rodriguez.
© Matt Collar /TiVo
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Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Composer, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Composer, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Paquito D'Rivera, FeaturedArtist - Chucho Valdes, Composer - Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Paquito D'Rivera, FeaturedArtist - Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Composer, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Arthur Hamilton, ComposerLyricist - Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Orchestrator - Okan, FeaturedArtist - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Paquito D'Rivera, FeaturedArtist - Dizzy Gillespie, Composer - FRANK PAPARELLI, Composer - Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Composer, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Composer, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Paquito D'Rivera, FeaturedArtist - Frederic Chopin, Composer - Peter Cardinali, Producer - Hilario Durán, Orchestrator - John "Beetle" Bailey, RecordingEngineer, ImmersiveMixingEngineer - Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band, MainArtist
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
Album review
The last time Cuban-born, Canada-based pianist Hilario Durán released a big band album with 2006's From the Heart, he picked up a Grammy nomination and won the Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Seventeen years later, he delivers his follow-up, 2023's Cry Me a River, his second album to feature his 19-piece Latin Jazz Big Band. A virtuoso performer, composer, and bandleader, Durán initially garnered acclaim in the 1970s after taking over the piano chair from Chucho Valdés in Cuba's famed Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna. From there, he spent over a decade with trumpeter Arturo Sandoval before settling in Canada. He has distinguished himself since then as one of the leading lights of Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz, continually broadening the stylistic traditions he grew up with and weaving in post-bop jazz and classical harmonies. Cry Me a River expands upon this legacy as Durán brings together his varied influences into a cohesive and sophisticated style. Cuts like the opening "Pacá por Juanito" and "Mambo y Tumbao" are exuberantly kinetic Latin jazz dance numbers that nicely update the sound bandleaders like Tito Puente popularized from the '50s onward. We also get the dusky romanticism of "Claudia," a lyrical ballad played emotively by alto saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, a longtime associate of Durán. Also making vital contributions are his longtime drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez and bassist Roberto Occhipinti, the latter of whom lays down a funky acoustic groove on the hip-hop-meets-hard-bop tribute to Charles Mingus, "I Remember Mingus." Elsewhere, Durán carves out plenty of solo space for his band on his arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie's classic "A Night in Tunisia," and combines swinging jazz with the romantic classical work of composer Frédéric Chopin on "Fantasia Impromptu." Central to the album is Durán's cover of the standard "Cry Me a River," made famous by singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Julie London, and which he uses here to showcase the equally vibrant talents of singer and violinist Elizabeth Rodriguez.
© Matt Collar /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:52:25
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alma Records
- Genre: Jazz
2023 Alma Records 2023 Alma Records
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