Roberto Juan Rodriguez, El Danzon de Moises - 44m 31s

Tracks & Durations

1. El Polaco	4:37
2. Danzonete Hebreo	4:02
3. The Shvitz	4:53
4. Guahira	6:48
5. Shron	3:38
6. El Danzon de Moises	4:54
7. Comparsa en Altamar	4:59
8. Shalom a Shango	4:09
9. Jerusalem Market	6:25

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Review

The Cuban-born percussionist Roberto Juan Rodriguez plays with such varied acts as Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, Julio Iglesias, Miami Sound Machine, Joe Jackson, and John Zorn. But it's his background in Cuba's small Jewish community that is the inspiration for El Danzon de Moises, an outstanding amalgamation of traditional Cuban and Jewish music. Leading a dozen of New York's downtown finest (including clarinetist David Krakauer, percussionist Susie Ibarra, and bassist Brad Jones), Rodriguez has composed and arranged an album that adeptly captures the wailing clarinet and Eastern European rhythms of klezmer, and seamlessly fuses them with the shimmying sway of Cuban son and the percolating fire of Afro-Cuban percussion. Ostensibly, this seemingly incongruous fusion would play best (or perhaps get the most resistance) in Miami Beach or New York City because of their large Latin and Jewish populations, but the beautiful and reverential songs will appeal to anyone open to musical possibilities. This album realizes the unique vision of a talented musician. --Tad Hendrickson

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