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Manfredo Fest, piano: Phil Fest,acoustic guitar, voices;
RogÈro Botter Maio, electric bass; Portinho, drums
Claudio Roditi, trumpet, flugelhorn
Essentially a Latin gig, this is, however, interlaced with a lot of Jazz
accents. Fest is a piano player of some command and what could have been
a routine run down of the usual Latin bag is lifted a notch higher by his
playing, and not with little consequence by the guest appearance of trumpeter
Claudio Roditi. The rhythms chugging along behind this extremely innovative
pianist form a conventional backdrop, which is actually a blessing because
you really get to hear this guy playing some great piano. There's Jobim
and Baden Powel, of course, a couple of Gershwin numbers, and then, surprise,
surprise, Landesman and Wolf's "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most."
It is on this number, after a couple of straight choruses, that Fest again
shows his Jazz feeling. A CD for those wishing to shake and rumba to compulsively
swinging, accomplished piano playing.
by Lawrence Brazier
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