Title: Current Artist: Manuel Valera Label: Max Jazz Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 610614022024 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2009-10-06 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: DIGIPACK PACKAGING
Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Manuel Valera is at the forefront of contemporary modern jazz. He represents the next generation of great performers and composers. On his new MAXJAZZ release, "Currents," his sound is fresh, inviting and evocative, and his musical ideas bring a vitality and newness to the idioms of jazz and Latin jazz. Joining Valera on this date is bassist James Genus and drummer Ernesto Simpson. "Currents" features five original compositions as well as a number of standards by the likes of Monk, Gershwin and Berlin.
Tracks: 1.1 Numerico 1.2 How Deep Is the Ocean 1.3 Balada Para Isabel 1.4 We See 1.5 I Fall in Love Too Easily 1.6 Ode to Kenny 1.7 Dienda 1.8 Hindsight 1.9 I Loves You, Porgy 1.10 Currents
