Stone Alliance, Con Amigos
BIS => 2025 05 02
1LP - PM RECORDS
1977
Stone Alliance’s 1977 release with a Latin flair – and jazz through and through
TRACKLIST
A1 I'll Tell You Tomorrow
A2 Mujeres Sud Americanas (The Women Of South America)
A3 Miss T.
B1 Graciela
B2 Amigos
B3 Taking A Good Long Look
DESCRIPTION
They were, or rather are, the first representatives of the latest musical evolution that has mastered the world. We were, and still are, a dominated, wondrous audience quite fascinated by a different way of life through music. It seems that what Stone Alliance was saying -- about telling a story each time one plays -- is true. We listen to the story woven by the music of Stone Alliance and we identify with it; in the long run we become enriched. And who else but AMIGOS would enrich us? Thank you, Stone Alliance!
Club de Arte
While most of the jazz world is heading toward either commercialism or the avant-garde, it's a pleasure to find a group such as Stone Alliance filling in this ever widening gap.
CBF
This album was recorded after the American trio had stayed a year in Buenos Aires, playing with and absorbing the talents of the Argentinian musicians who accompany here. The result is a dazzling blend of styles, and Stone Alliance's best effort to date. There is some fierce playing, notably from saxophonist Steve Grossman, but the overall feeling is Latin American melancholy and rhythm.
Percussionist Don Alias seems most adept at this synthesis; his African jungle percussion is delightful when positioned against the throb of congas, whistles and other South American instruments.
T.E.
What seven musicians can do with the aid of double and triple tracking, overdubbing, mixing and editing is not only astounding -- but an absolute delight.
Highly recommended to the intelligent jazz-lover.
Mark Allen, Record Review
This gem of a recording, done in Buenos Aires, features the trio known as Stone Alliance -- Steve Grossman, tenor sax, Gene Perla, bass, keyboards and guitar, and Don Alias, percussion and guitar -- augmented by local musicians. The music, as expected, is highly rhythmic, but also unexpectedly eletronic in spots. The traditional -- abandon on the bright "I'll Tell You Tomorrow" -- is contrasted with synthesizer overdub on the languid bolero, "Mujeres Sud Americanas." "Amigos," a surprise favorite, is a brief three-part exposition of what Latin percussion should sound like.
Jazz Album Picks, Cash Box
"...one of my all-time favorites...truly awe-inspiring...why can't they make albums like this anymore...."
A.S., London
| Statut: BACK IN STOCK |
| Genre: LATIN, JAZZ, FUNK |
| Format: 1LP |
| Release date: 1977 |
| Label: PM RECORDS |