Album Notes:
“Emotionally charged and stylistically diverse, carried along not just by rhythm but also through lovely harmonized passages, horn fanfares, and powerfully conjured moods.” - The Wall Street Journal
Triangles and Circles is the sixth album by Dafnis Prieto as a leader, and his sextet’s long-awaited second release. The new recording brightly illuminates the drummer and McArthur Fellow as a composer of considerable depth, with a penchant for complex but infectious melodies that meld the folklore of his Afro-Cuban roots with modern harmonies rich with counterpoint and virtuosic rhythmic concepts.
His bandmates, Peter Apfelbaum and Felipe Lamoglia on saxophones, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, pianist Manuel Valera, and bassist Johannes Weidenmueller are all brilliant soloists but also exemplary team players who, like Prieto, are experts at crafting a musical narrative from Pan-American source material.
Recorded on the heels of a one-week run at the Jazz Standard in New York City, the eight album tracks capture the essence of Dafnis’s writing and imagination. The Sextet excels on all fronts, reaching a near-telepathic level of interplay and impeccable interpretation throughout the entire repertoire.
Tracklist:
1. Back and Forth
2. Triangles and Circles
3. Flores
4. The Evil in You
5. Blah Blah Blah
6. Blah Blah
7. Two for One
8. Opening
Genre: Latin: Afro-Cuban
Released 2015.