Caribe

Caribe Artist: Eric Dolphy & Latin Jazz Quintet
Label: Ojc
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 025218681926
EAN: 0025218681926
ASIN: B000000Z0C


Release Date: 1994-07-30

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Listmania:

  1. Eric Dolphy as a Sideman

Tracks:

  1. Caribe
  2. Blues In 6/8
  3. First Bass Line
  4. Mambo Ricci
  5. Spring Is Here
  6. Sunday Go Meetin'

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Watered-Down "Caribe".......2000-09-30

The session that yielded "Caribe" was the brainchild of Prestige label owner Bob Weinstock. History has shown it was more like a brain-lapse! "Caribe" is uninspired, derivative, mainstream jazz meets watered-down, light and fluffy bossa nova. The only reason I didn't give this album two stars is the inclusion of Dolphy. He is the only thing memorable on this unforgettable recording. This Latin Jazz Quintet album (I don't think of it as a Dolphy album) took place on August 19, 1960 and included the following musicians -- Gene Casey on piano, Charlie Simmons on vibes, Bill Ellington on bass, Manny Ramos on drums, and Juan Amalbert on conga. Casey (who wrote three of the album's tunes) and Ellington are competent musicians, but the others leave me cold. The uninventive, unoriginal contributions of Simmons are the perfect example of why I say I like vibes players (Hutcherson, Jackson, Hampton, Feldman, Dickerson) and not the instrument itself. The playing of musicians like Simmons is what gives the vibes its status as a novelty instrument. Speaking of novelty, the conga playing of Amalbert is equally hum-drum and annoying. "Caribe" is the type of disc people talk about when they say "for completists only." This is definitely worth skipping -- I do every time I play my Dolphy Box Set.

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