- Audio CD (2 Jan 1996)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Soul Jazz
- ASIN: B000024KI4
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 106,453 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
With a plethora of unnecessary and predictable compilations flooding the over subscribed market each year, Soul Jazz's thoughtful and considered approach always means they remain one step ahead of the competition, consistently releasing collections with a strong concept and reason for being. The concept behind Nu Yorica! is simple: a celebration of Latin fusion in New York between the years of 1970-1977, all detailed with careful reference to the cultural and musical melting pot that had merged over the previous decades. To highlight certain tracks would be a disservice to others, as all are killers in their own right, although contributions from the likes of Eddie Palmieri, Joe Bataan and Harlem River Drive should provide doubters with enough evidence of the collection's pedigree. The richly intricate elements and themes of Afro-Cuban percussion and Latin funk rhythms run as powerful and energetic reminders to the time and underpin the entire album by their presence, to complete another dynamite collection that side steps the obvious with ease. --Found Sounds
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This compilation, as with most Soul Jazz material is that it is just so rich, it is difficult to know where to start! What struck me was that there were so many different styles of music on offer. It is impossible to take it all in at once. However this is no bad thing, you will come back to this record again and again. Tracks that didn't appeal straight away will soon enough become favourites.
There's quite a lot of scope here regarding groups, from the almost 60s style Ocho who play so tightly but still sound relaxed to the funky, nearly disco, distinctively New York sound of Joe Bataan. There's also examples of jazz (Harlem River Drive) and Puerto Rican material (Tempo 70). Every track is a gem.
One thing that might put you off is that this compilation contains music from the seventies, which might project visions of bloated, woolly material. In fact, much of the music is tight and stripped down but sounds like a definite evolvement of the sixties dancehall bands led by the likes of Tito Puente.
In Short, you won't be disappointed.
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A Must Have for Latin, Funk, and Afro-Cuban Jazz Lovers!!!
30 May 2006
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the best compilations of any kind that I've found. I found it at my library about a year ago and bought it shortly after hearing it. It has since become one of my favorite albums...and I have a freakin TON of great albums.
While listening to this album you feel like your taking a funky tropical urban ride through jamland. From the blaring horns to the funky slap bass lines and afro beats, Nu Yorica! is so musically expressive that you can almost SEE the Cuban or Puerto Rican street festivals and Harlem jazz lounges where the movement really took off.
All I have to say is that my cool music factor has been elevated to a new level because of this album. Anyone who's opinion I respect digs this when I play it for them. Seriously, a must have. GET IT!!!
While listening to this album you feel like your taking a funky tropical urban ride through jamland. From the blaring horns to the funky slap bass lines and afro beats, Nu Yorica! is so musically expressive that you can almost SEE the Cuban or Puerto Rican street festivals and Harlem jazz lounges where the movement really took off.
All I have to say is that my cool music factor has been elevated to a new level because of this album. Anyone who's opinion I respect digs this when I play it for them. Seriously, a must have. GET IT!!!
A classic compilation
15 Sep 2000
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the few compilations to have attained classic status. SoulJazz followed a clear concept: the impact of environment and identity in the creation of a community of musicians, specifically those musicians living in East Harlem who were of Cuban and/or Puerto Rican heritage OR African-American but enamoured of Latin music during the 1970s. Ocho is an example of the latter: an all-black group from "across the river" which combined the expected soul and funk influences with hard Latin genres. Bobby Vince Paunetto, a vibist of Italian/Spanish heritage, fused Cal Tjader with breakbeats and an operaticexploitation sensibility on "Little Rico's Theme". The Puerto Riqueno Ricardo Marrero's "Babalonia" is not only a prime breakbeat cut, it's also a masterpiece of tension and release set up by the keyboard and horn arrangements.
The NuYorican sound had been developing since at least Machito's heyday in the late 1940s and 50s, but the utopian communalism and fearless artistic leaps of the era (plus the expanded tone colors brought by electrification and radical engineering) catapulted the aesthetic into something new and startling, but the window for this music was narrow, and by the early 1980s such bold blendings of different genres would have much less commercial viability.
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