Ninety Miles Project

Ninety Miles
Studio album by Christian Scott, David Sánchez, Stefon Harris, Harold Lopez Nussa, Rember Duharte
Released 21 June 2011
Recorded 2010
Genre jazz, latin jazz
Label Concord Records
Producer John Burk, Chris Dunn
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

Ninety Miles Project is a jazz album and documentary film recorded on Havana, Cuba, in May 2010, and features American jazz artists Christian Scott, Stefon Harris and David Sánchez.[2] The project also features Cuban composers and artists Rember Duharte and Harold Lopez Nussa.[3] The album was released in 2010 on Concord Picante Records.[4] In late 2011, both Downbeat Magazine and Jazziz Magazine featured cover stories on the project with Jazziz Magazine stating that the hyperkinetic polyrhythms laid down by pianist Rember Duharte’s group on the opening track, “Ñengueleru,” clearly distinguish this set from a conventional Latin-jazz date.[5]

In his review of the album, Dave Gelly of the Observer wrote "Ninety miles is the distance separating Cuba from the US. After much hassle, these three US-based jazz musicians got to play with their Cuban counterparts in Havana and this is the result. It's well known that standards are ferociously high in Cuba, and the sheer sophistication of the musical dialogue is hugely impressive".[6]

The American members of Ninety Miles continue to tour, including shows at The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival,[7] The Atlanta Jazz Festival,[8] and at the Hollywood Bowl opening for Arturo Sandoval and The Buena Vista Social Club.[9]

The project extends a larger, more organic story — of jazz as a conduit for connection between the U.S. and Cuba and an expression of common roots — which is as old as the music itself, and which has been altered and often severely curtailed during the last half-century, due to travel restrictions related to the continuing U.S. embargo of Cuba.[10]

Album track listing

  1. Nengueleru (5:03) (written by Rember Duharte)
  2. E'Cha (4:14) (Harold Lopez-Nussa)
  3. City Sunrise (6:45) (David Sanchez)
  4. The Forgotten Ones (3:52) (David Sanchez)
  5. Black Action Figure (6:21) (Stefon Harris)
  6. Congo (6:28) (Rember Duharte)
  7. And This Too Shall Pass (9:28) (Stefon Harris)
  8. Brown Belle Blues (4:59) (Stefon Harris)
  9. La Fiesta Va (5:48) (Harold Lopez-Nussa)

Album personnel

(Tracks 1, 6 & 8)

(Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7 & 9)

References

  1. ↑ "Ninety Miles - Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Christian Scott | AllMusic". allmusic.com. 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Reed Johnson (2011-08-23). "Ninety Miles celebrates Cuba's jazz link". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  3. ↑ "Jazz Reviews: CD Review: Ninety Miles - By Wilbert Sostre — JazzTimes". Jazztimes.com. 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  4. ↑ Cummings, Jozen (2011-06-23). "A Super Group for Jazz Lovers - Speakeasy - WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  5. ↑ Customer Service (2011-11-16). "Stefon Harris / David Sánchez / Christian Scott / Ninety Miles | Jazziz Magazine". Jazziz.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  6. ↑ Dave Gelly (7 August 2011). "Stefon Harris/David Sánchez/Christian Scott: Ninety Miles – review | Music |". The Observer. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  7. ↑ "Ninety Miles at the 2011 Clifford Brown Jazz Festival (photoblog)". Nextbop. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  8. ↑ "Ninety Miles Project 2011 Atlanta Jazz Festival Video". Nextbop. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20110917025338/http://www.ocregister.com:80/entertainment/night-313877-one-bowl.html. Archived from the original on September 17, 2011. Retrieved December 31, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ Blumenfeld, Larry (2011-06-22). "Ninety Miles From Home | By Larry Blumenfeld - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2012-11-01.

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