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Oye Afra is the posthumous release of a set of live recordings by Cuban-born, Paris-based pianist Alfredo Rodriguez and his band, including excellent violinist Ruben Chaviano and flutist Bobby Rangell.

Born near Havana, Alfredo studied classical piano before leaving Cuba for New York City, where he studied jazz with Bill Evans and played with Celia Cruz, Tito Puente and Patato Valdez. He lived in Paris for 22 years before his death there in October of 2005.

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1423
CD Cut 1 - 'Claudia'
Jesus 'Chucho' Valdes, arr Alfredo Rodriguez
Pub Not Spec
O + Music OP 119 (Distributed internationally by Harmonia Mundi and in Australia by through Select Audio-Visual Distribution)
www.savd.com.au
Alfredo Rodriguez - 'Oye Afra'
9:02
(Alfredo's florid piano introduces this bluesy ballad, joined by burbling percussion and bass, with solos by Ruben Chaviano on violin, Carlos Betancourt on trumpet and unknown clarinetist, live

1433
CD Cut 11 - ''Neste Mesmo Lugar' (In This Same Place)
Armando Cavalcanti/Klecius Caldas
SGAE
Telarc CD-83677 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: wwww.telarc.com )
Rosa Passos - 'Romance'
4:02
(Rosa's voice, easily up in the top of her range, in a song about remembering the places she went with her old love, only to see him in one of them with another woman. Nice, light backing from piano trio)

Segue

1439
CD Cut 7 - 'Summertime'
George Gershwin, arr Alfredo Rodriguez
Pub Not Spec
O + Music OP 119 (Distributed internationally by Harmonia Mundi and in Australia by through Select Audio-Visual Distribution)
www.savd.com.au
Alfredo Rodriguez - 'Oye Afra'
9:00
(Afro-Cuban version of the famous song from Porgy and Bess, featuring Joel Hierrezuelo's congas, Alfredo's inspired piano, Ruben Chaviano's jazz violin.)

1449
CD Cut 3 - 'Love's Not Passing Us By'
Anne McCue
Milkman's Daughter Music ASCAP/APRA, admin by Bug Music
AM 006 http://www.annemccue.com
Anne McCue - 'East of Electric'
3:24
(Austral comp and perf: All acoustic, with guitars and mandolins in love song set in the Melbourne Autumn)

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Segue

1452
CD Cut 1 - 'Turquoise'
Damian Wright
Pre-release CD
The Translators
6:03
(Austral comp and perf: Mandolin start, then box percussion, flamenco guitar and soloing electric bass into flamenco groove with breaks for palm percussion and an electric mandolin solo)

TRANSLATORS GIG ALERT:

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Ben Hauptmann - Mandolin
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