Genre: Jazz
Original Release: 6/10/1997
1. O My Seh Yeh
9:59
2. Una Mas
8:06
3. Dream Traveler
5:23
4. Nusia's Poem
6:20
5. Mr. Bruce
5:30
6. Ballad For The Children
4:52
7. The Mountaings
8:07
8. Afrodisia
4:46
9. Mambo For Roy
11:01
10. O Mi Seh Yeh
6:22
At last, this highly touted, heretofore conservative Young Lion makes his move beyond neo-bop toward something new, fresh and potentially important. He had to go to Havana to find it, starting with some jam sessions with Cuba's Los Van Van dance band in February 1996, which led to the formation of an exciting ten-piece U.S./Cuban band called Crisol. True, this album is a somewhat subdued recorded debut; as heard at the Playboy Jazz Festival in June 1997, Crisol is obviously capable of real thermal combustion. But one can still hear the embryo of its complex fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythm, bop and progressive jazz impulses on this disc. Hargrove himself still seems dazzled by his new discovery, groping a bit for direction in his own solos. But challenged by the asymmetrical rhythms, he takes more chances and jaggedly strikes some fire. Irakere's Chucho Valdes, an awesome pianist and progressive-minded musician, is one of the anchors of the band, and Russell Malone Read More
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