"An overlooked Afro-Latin jazz gem featuring a 16-piece band. Nice vocals by Dianne Reeves." (Allmusic, 4,5 sterren)
"Greg made two solo albums. In 1981 he recorded a live album, SUPER LIVE AT THE BAKED POTATO, with two members of the group Toto, Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro, along with Pops Popwell from the Jazz Crusaders. In 1986 he recorded a studio album on Head First Records, FOR MY FRIENDS, featuring Carlos Vega, Michael Landau, Abraham Laboriel Sr. and Luis Conte that went top 5 on the Billboard Jazz Charts". (Sessiondays).
"With The Long Time Band, Andy Narell provides an example of honest-to-God multiculturalism. Think about it: you've got a Jewish-American musician who is using an Afro-Caribbean instrument from Trinidad (the steel pan) to play a style of music that came out of the African-American community (jazz). But, as The Long Time Band demonstrates, jazz is hardly the only form of music that interests Narell. Though this is essentially a jazz CD, it's a jazz CD that contains elements of other African-American forms (funk, R&B, and blues) and also draws on everything from Afro-Cuban salsa and Afro-Caribbean calypso to African pop. Narell doesn't play "in the tradition" on this album. Rather, The Long Time Band is an example of a jazzman being fascinated with a variety of cultures and using that fascination to his creative advantage". (Alex Henderson, AllMusic).
Van oorsprong Cubaans percussionist, te horen op vele platen in vele genres. Dit is een sentimental journey langs populaire Cubaanse muziek van de afgelopen 60 jaar, met romantische invalshoek: Cuba=paradijs, dansen + muziek.
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