Dafnis Prieto, About the Monks - 52m 21s

Tracks & Durations

1. About The Monks	5:23
2. Tumba Francesca	7:35
3. Ironico Arlequin	3:44
4. Danzon Santa Clara	8:04
5. On And On	8:12
6. Trio Absolute	2:50
7. Mechanical Movement	6:17
8. Interrupted Question	6:37
9. Conga En Ti	3:32

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Review

Since arriving in New York from Cuba in the late 1990s, the phenomenal young drummer Dafnis Prieto has enlivened everything he has touched, ranging from the tradition-socking bands of Eddie Palmieri and Chico O'Farrill to the boldy innovative outfits of Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill. About the Monks, the first album under his name, is a sparkling debut that is conveniently labeled Latin jazz, but never sits still long enough to fit that description. Leading a terrific band including trumpeter and Latin jazz specialist Brian Lynch, saxophonist Yosvany Terry and oncoming Venezuelan pianist Luis Perdomo (whose new debut, Focus Point, is highly recommended), Prieto stages a stylistic carnival. His compositions are sly charmers, thriving on the expected clave beats, but also march rhythms, bursts of Colemanesque bop-funk and slashing stops and starts. Here making like Elvin Jones with his intricate, powerfully self-contained orchestrations, there providing visceral punch with a timbales-like sound, Prieto simply won't permit a dull moment to intrude on the music. --Lloyd Sachs

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