Cesar Orozco & Karmarata Jazz - No Limit's for Tumbao (2016)

Tracklist

01. No Limits for Tumbao
02. La Rumba Esta Buena
03. Jorozco
04. Yobo
05. Vladitimba
06. Faith
07. Galeron
08. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
09. Arrival
10. Para Ti Nengon


This album adds new ingredients to the mix of Venezuelan music, Cuban music, and jazz I’ve been doing for a number of years – for example, Changui and Nengon, Cuban folkloric genres that both originated in the eastern part of the island. The first has a great rhythmic complexity, but a strong danceable spirit. The second could represent the clearest forerunner of Cuban Son. For me, Nengon also has personal significance since my father, musicologist Danilo Orozco, was the one who brought it to light for the very first time through his research in the early 80s, embodied in the album “Antologia Integral del Son.” On the Venezuelan side, although I have previously recorded Joropos, this is the first time I have composed one, which besides the jazz influence, has the characteristic beat and refrain of the eastern Venezuelan Joropo. You will also hear a Venezuelan Merengue with a Cuban Montuno, a Funk style song adorned with Afro-Venezuelan drums, and a Cuban-flavored ballad, among other things.

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