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Jorge Sylvester: MusiCollage CD in a jewel case.
“Sylvester shines as composer and player… MusiCollage is the quintessence of creative teamwork.” – JazzTimes Magazine
On this debut Postcards album, “Jorge Sylvester: MusiCollage”, saxophonist and composer Jorge Sylvester has created a true fusion of Modern Jazz and Latin Music. In Sylvester’s playing, the listener can hear strong influences of every great Jazz alto player from Bird through Wayne Shorter. His compositions wax poetically through the sounds of Latin America, the Carribean, Africa, and urban street music of New York and his native Panama, all with a Jazz soul. His masterful playing has put him on stages next to Jazz greats like Dave Holland and Stefon Harris.
“Critic’s Choice: A fresh, eclectic blend of straight-ahead, Latin and avant-garde jazz styles.” – Billboard Magazine
On “Jorge Sylvester: Musicollage”, which consists entirely of his own compositions, Sylvester is joined by trumpeter Claudio Roditi, a rhythm section that includes drummer Gene Jackson and vibraphonist Monte Croft, Bobby Sanabria, an exciting, combustible encyclopedia of Latin percussion, and guitarist Marvin Sewell, who adds a contemporary urban feel. With this album, Jorge Sylvester takes us on a clever yet soulful, textured yet comprehensible, and thoughtful yet danceable musical odyssey that displays his adept playing ability, spirited musical vision, and multicultural compositions.
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“Sylvester shines as composer and player… MusiCollage is the quintessence of creative teamwork.” – JazzTimes Magazine
On this debut Postcards album, “Jorge Sylvester: MusiCollage”, saxophonist and composer Jorge Sylvester has created a true fusion of Modern Jazz and Latin Music. In Sylvester’s playing, the listener can hear strong influences of every great Jazz alto player from Bird through Wayne Shorter. His compositions wax poetically through the sounds of Latin America, the Carribean, Africa, and urban street music of New York and his native Panama, all with a Jazz soul. His masterful playing has put him on stages next to Jazz greats like Dave Holland and Stefon Harris.
“Critic’s Choice: A fresh, eclectic blend of straight-ahead, Latin and avant-garde jazz styles.” – Billboard Magazine
On “Jorge Sylvester: Musicollage”, which consists entirely of his own compositions, Sylvester is joined by trumpeter Claudio Roditi, a rhythm section that includes drummer Gene Jackson and vibraphonist Monte Croft, Bobby Sanabria, an exciting, combustible encyclopedia of Latin percussion, and guitarist Marvin Sewell, who adds a contemporary urban feel. With this album, Jorge Sylvester takes us on a clever yet soulful, textured yet comprehensible, and thoughtful yet danceable musical odyssey that displays his adept playing ability, spirited musical vision, and multicultural compositions.
Jorge Sylvester MusiCollage
Customer Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016
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George F. Bailey:
5 stars
Panama has sent many fine strong jazz musicians to grace our shores; among them Carlos Garnett, Billy Cobham, Mauricio Smith, and Danilo Perez (and let's not forget that Eric Dolphy's parents emigrated from Panama). All of them were technically adept and showed complete mastery of the jazz idiom. Add Jorge Sylvester to that list.
Jorge Sylvester is one of the overlooked jazz masters on the scene today. When I've seen him play live, I'm amazed at how good he is and also how few people there are in his audiences. His Alto saxophone playing is technically and formally tight and his range of emotion explores inside and outside as creatively as anyone out there. He can pop 16th notes like Cannonball and he can jump intervals like Dolphy while structurally, his improvisations are eminently musical. His compositions are complex, both rhythmically and harmonically. I can only guess how difficult to play they might be to even the most talented sight-reader (I gave up playing music after my high school years). My guess is that because Sylvester is dedicated to exploring his own compositions, he has not placed himself on the short-list of on-call session musicians here in his adopted home town of New York.
Jorge's music on this CD is in the groundbreaking mold of the best of Blue Note in the 1960s. Claudio Roditi is especially strong throughout but his work on "Illusions" is eye opening. I've had this CD for years and it still shocks me how great it sounds. When I noticed that it had only two cursory reviews, I had to set the record straight (no pun intended). This is must listening for anyone who is looking for forward looking jazz of the kind not played by the younger generation of heralded jazz musicians we have today - at least until Kamasi Washington came along. Whereas someone like Washington is channeling the Coltrane/Sanders spectrum, Jorge Sylvester is resurrecting the spirits conjured by Dolphy, Andrew Hill and Bobby Hutcherson without sounding as if he is copying anyone.
Open your ears to "Musicollage." You will not be sorry.
credits
released January 4, 1996
All compositions and arrangements by Jorge Sylvester.
Jorge Sylvester: Alto sax and soprano sax
Claudio Roditi: Trumpet and flugelhorn
Gene Jackson: Drums
Monte Croft: Vibraphone
Santi Debriano: Bass
Bobby Sanabria: Percussion
Marvin Sewell: Guitar
Produced by: Ralph Simon
Executive Producer: Sibyl R. Golden
Total Time: 60:11 minutes
"Jorge Sylvester's distinctive alto saxophone sound is imbued with the volatility of Caribbean basin's complex mosaic,
transformed and focused by the probing musical linguistics pioneered by the great saxophonists of modern jazz. Jorge's composer's imagination is the matchless structural coherence of his improvisational work".
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