Track Listing

1. Guaguasi
2. Momentumi
3. Verde Campina
4. Sing Your Blues Away (For Neca)
5. Guaguasi Abstracto - Gato Barbieri, Cachao, Paquito d'Rivera, , Chico O'Farrill, Mario Rivers, Arturo Sandoval
6. Trumpet Fantasy
7. Chico's Cha Cha Cha
8. Te Quiero Dijiste
9. Manteca
10. Locos de la Habana
11. Sin Tu Amor
12. Pure Emotion - Gato Barbieri, Cachao, Paquito d'Rivera, , Chico O'Farrill, Mario Rivers, Arturo Sandoval
13. Fin de Siglo
14. Journey

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179883 in Music
• Released on: 1999-08-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

From Jazziz
"He put the big band in clave," says producer Todd Barkan of Chico O'Farrill, the Cuban composer and conductor behind Heart of a Legend. "I would put him right there at the top of the list of modern Latin-jazz pioneers." Barkan says this new record was made, in part, to present the entire spectrum of O'Farrill's work. Naturally, it includes a version of Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca," which O'Farrill arranged as a four-movement suite in 1954. Our featured track, "Guaguasí," is a mambo, with solos by some distinguished Latin-jazz stars: trombonist Gary Valente, trumpeter Chocolate Armenteros, and alto saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera.

--- JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.

Customer Reviews

A great legend in Afro-Cuban Jazz
In his big band historical format, Chico O'Farrill brings to the latin jazz fans -equal at the "Pure Emotion" Grammy nominated- more beatiful tracks. Guagasi is the base of two anthology themes: first, "Te quiero", is a good motive to the brightness guageo of Gato Barbieri's tenor sax; second, the beatiful balad "Sin tu Amor" with the sensual voice of Vivian Ara. In my opinion, the top moment in the Chico's music to be enough in the "Trumpet Fantasy" suite, dedicated to Wynton Marsalis, one of the more brillant music friends of that legendary director and composer in afro-cuban jazz music.

A great legend in afro-cuban jazz
In this big band format, Chico O'Farrill brings to his fans more beatiful tracks. "Guagasi" is the base of two anthology themes: "Te Quiero", is a good motive to the brightness solo of Gato Barbieri's tenor sax; and, the beatiful balad "Sin tu Amor" with the sensual voice of Vivian Ara. In my opinion, the top moment in this Chico's CD to be enough in the "Trumpet Fantasy" suite, dedicated to Wynton Marsalis, one of the more brillant music friends of that legendary director and composer in afro-cuban jazz music.

A great legend in Afro-Cuban Jazz
In his big band historical format, Chico O'Farrill brings to the latin jazz fans -equal at the "Pure Emotion" Grammy nominated- more beatiful tracks. Guagasi is the base of two anthology themes: first, "Te quiero", is a good motive to the brightness guageo of Gato Barbieri's tenor sax; second, the beatiful balad "Sin tu Amor" with the sensual voice of Vivian Ara. In my opinion, the top moment in the Chico's music to be enough in the "Trumpet Fantasy" suite, dedicated to Wynton Marsalis, one of the more brillant music friends of that legendary director and composer in afro-cuban jazz music.