Louis Cardinal/Atlanta Brave Terry Pendleton demonstrated that a fat man could play most-valuable-player in baseball, Erroll Garner showed that one did not have to be able to read a note of music to be influential as a jazz musician.Pianist and composer Michel Camilo is renowned for combining rich harmonies with the Caribbean flavors and Latin rhythms of his native Dominican Republic. In the same way that the former St. Erroll Garner Concert By The Sea Columbia 40589 1955.
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A self-taught student of American jazz, he first heard piano legend Art Tatum on the radio, and his love for jazz soon led him away from Santo Domingo.N 1979, he and his wife moved to New York. Camilo started out playing accordion before switching to piano at age nine. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1954, he came from a musical family. Navigating the boundaries of jazz, Triangulo represents a fusion of styles that is both high-powered and unforgettable.Whether one reads A Doll’s House as a technical revolution in modern theater, the modern tragedy, the first feminist play since the Greeks, a Hegelian allegory of the spirit’s historical evolution.Throughout his career, Camilo has never been afraid to look for musical inspiration. Cuban drummer Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez (who lent a hand on Steve Turre’s In the Spur of the Moment) supplies Latin percussion effects as well as straight-ahead rhythms.
Their distinct voices converge on Triangulo, a scintillating musical conversation between three masters whose versatility seems to have no limits. Camilo also appeared on the recent soundtrack CD for the acclaimed Latin jazz film Calle 54, directed by the Oscar-winning Spaniard Fernando Trueba.When talents as formidable as Michel Camilo, Anthony Jackson and Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez get together to make music, it’s an event. His self-titled Epic debut shot to the top of the jazz charts in 1988 and several more critically acclaimed albums followed, including On Fire, On The Other Hand, Rendezvous and One More Once.In 2000, Camilo’s Verve release, Spain, with flamenco guitarist Tomatito, won Best Latin Jazz Album in the first-ever Latin Grammy Awards.
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