Cleaver & Coleman & Revis - Hidden Voices (CD)

The Cuban-American pianist and composer Aruán Ortiz has finally arrived on the international jazz scene, following a few earlier releases. His excellent new album "Hidden Voices" recorded as a trio with bass player Eric Revis and drummer Gerald Cleaver is the proof. Ortiz, who grew up in Santiago de Cuba, has been called the latest Cuban prodigy to arrive in the US. His carefully structured music is an exciting mix of contemporary classical sounds, afro-Cuban rhythms and powerful jazz improvisation. All these elements are fused to make a very individual sound. "I was thinking about this album as a circle with no beginning and no end," says Aruán Ortiz. After working with seven original works as well as tunes by Ornette Coleman and Thelonious Monk, the 42-year-old has turned to a traditional song "Uno, Dos y Tres, Que Paso Más Chevere," that "everybody in Cuba knows from festivities and carnivals."

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Fractal Sketches (Feat. Eric Revis ; Gerald Cleaver)
2. Open ; Close/The Sphinx (Feat. Eric Revis ; Gerald Cleaver)
3. Caribbean Vortex/Hidden Voices (Feat. Eric Revis, Gerald Cleaver, Arturo Stable ; Enildo Rasúa)
4. Analytical Symmetry (Feat. Eric Revis ; Gerald Cleaver)
5. Arabesques of a Geometrical Rose (Spring) [Feat. Eric Revis ; Gerald Cleaver]
6. Arabesques of a Geometrical Rose (Summer) [Feat. Eric Revis ; Gerald Cleaver]
7. 17 Moments of Liam's Moments (Or 18) [Feat. Eric Regis ; Gerald Cleaver]
8. Joyful Noises (Feat. Eric Regis ; Gerald Cleaver)
9. Skippy (Feat. Eric Regis ; Gerald Cleaver)
10. Uno, Dos y Tres, Que Paso MÁS Chévere (Feat. Eric Regis ; Gerald Cleaver)