Maybe one of the most unique efforts in the "Latin Side" series from trombonist Conrad Herwig – as the combination of Latin rhythms and the music of Charles Mingus isn't one that we can easily imagine – yet one that sounds really wonderful as things come together on the album! />
Herwig always has a way of bringing new depth and vision to the work of key jazz composers – and although other efforts are in more familiar territory for the tunes, here the music really takes flight with all these new colors and inflections – as the leader blows alongside Randy Brecker and Alex Sipiagin on trumpets, Bill O'Connell on piano and Fender Rhodes, and Craig Handy on tenor, flute, and bass clarinet! There's a bit of congas on the album too, Ruben Blades provides narration on a remake of "Don't Let It Happen Here"
TRACKS:
01.Gunslinging Bird
02.Boogie Stop Shuffle
03.No Dejes Que Pase Aqui (Don't Let It Happen Here)
04.Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
05.Hora Decubitus
06.Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
07.All the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother
08.Better Get Hit in Your Soul
