Published 10:00 pm, Saturday, May 31, 2014
The aesthetic posture of Latin Jazz Underground, the latest album from flautist Mark Weinstein, can be best described by the title of its seventh track, a Sam Rivers composition called "Mellifluous Cacophony." Working with Cuban pianist/composer/arranger Aruán Ortiz, he has produced an album than blends Latin jazz elements with free jazz concepts in a genre bending musical exploration. Of course, if the choice of a Sam Rivers composition doesn't indicate something about where the album is going, the addition of Ornette Coleman's "Open or Close" and Andrew Hill's "For Emilio" leaves no doubt.
In a sense what you get on Latin Jazz Underground is free jazz-lite, enough free play to foster invention, but not so much that you turn off the less adventurous listener.
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