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...best--and best-performed--Latin tune on the album is "Samba for Carmen", which Paquito dedicated to jazz singer Carmen McRae, Drummer Portinho, late of Tania Maria, drives the whole thing as if he were still in the Rio de Janeiro samba school, Padre Miguel, and fellow Brazilian Claudio Roditi, who has the unenviable position of following Paquito in order of solos, still acquits himself quite well on trumpet...
...Rivera himself spends most of the tune in the upper register of his alto, getting a soprano-like sound from it. His raw and driving post-bop sound combines with Roditi's bright, powerful trumpet as well as Portinho's samba beat and bassist Lincoln Goines, who is another Tania Maria veteran, uses his instrument to duplicate the sound of the surdo drum, the heart and soul of the samba...
...Claudro Roditi and Bob Move--New England Life Hall...
...years, Turkish poets imitated those of Persia; in the 19th and 20th centuries, the model has been France. This lively first novel skillfully blends both traditions with a strong individualistic note of its own and suggests that U.S. readers may have been missing something. Beautifully translated by Edouard Roditi, the book tells the story of young Memed who grows up in a mud-walled village hut in a remote province of Anatolia. Recklessly brave and a deadly marksman, Memed battles his environment and a succession of superb villains. Chief among them: sly, goat-bearded Abdi Agha, who owns five villages...
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