This Is Latin Jazz

All in all, this is a band that knows how to have a good time, and communicate it to a crowd, and the soloists don’t go in for grandstanding, they roll up their sleeves and get on with it. — Jazzwise, July 2021, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 7th May 2021
Catalogue No: HCD7331
Label: HighNote
Length: 65 minutes

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Charlie Sepúlveda: Liberty

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround, Randy Brecker

Charlie Sepúlveda: Tales from the Wall

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround, Steve Turre

Louiguy: Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround, Nestor Torres

Ariel Ramirez, Felix Luna: Alfonsina y el Mar

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround, Natalia Mercado

Charlie Sepúlveda: Frenesi

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround, Miguel Zenon

Charlie Sepúlveda: Estampas

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround

Cedar Walton: Firm Roots

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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround, Steve Turre

Charlie Sepúlveda: Peer Magic

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Although many people may not realise it, Puerto Rico is the home of a vibrant and thriving jazz scene. It is here that leading Latin Jazz trumpeter Charlie Sepulveda lives and does the bulk of his playing but he is certainly no stranger to New York City.

Born in the Bronx, Sepulveda 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 Sepulveda 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. Sepulveda'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 Sepulveda.

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July 2021

All in all, this is a band that knows how to have a good time, and communicate it to a crowd, and the soloists don’t go in for grandstanding, they roll up their sleeves and get on with it.

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