Tonight (September 19, 2024) at Nublu Jazz Club Robby Ameen launches his creation "Live At The Poster Museum"

 

LIVE AT THE POSTER MUSEUM

Musicians: Robby Ameen (drum, bandleader); Conrad Herwig (trumpet); Bob Franceschini,Troy Roberts (sax); Edsel Gomez (piano); Lincoln Goines (bass)

Tracks List: Fast Eye; Una Muy Anita; 3 2's & 3's; Oleo; Mixology; Lucia's Wawa; Swiftboating

The toast and concert for "Live At The Poster Museum" will be tonight at Nublu Jazz Club, 151 Avenue C, New York, NY

The pick of this AfroCuban rollercoaster from drummer Robby Ameen and his crack band is the fresh treatment of Sonny Rollins' 'Oleo' but there are plenty of goodies here on these 7 tracks including originals by the leader. As an initial taster an Ameen number - the sticksman is known for his work with Dave Valentin and Horacio "el Negro" Hernandez - long in the band book opener 'Fast Eye' was out ahead of the album's full release. The sound is hard boiled - not-weedy-at-all - which is refreshing in itself. And not 1 but 2 monster tenor players are in tow in heavy hitter tenorist Bob Franceschini - formidable with Kevin Hays, Obed Calvaire & Orlando Le Fleming on their Led Zep hommage Whole Lotta Love - and Aussie ace ex-Joey D & Van Morrison Green Lights type, Troy Roberts. The horn ensemble sound is fattened out by Conrad Herwig with whom Ameen has worked loads.

Fans of Ameen will know 'Fast Eye' from 2020's Diluvio on which you will also find a jaggedly different deftly contrapuntal version that works of Trane's 'Impressions'

Trombone trouper Herwig was scalding hot on The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner. There's great cowbell from Ameen on 'Lucia's Wawa' to cool one.

The 'Wawa' Ameen tune was also snuck on to Overproof's Three Guys Walk Into a Bar in a head bobbingly larging it know the Sco-down kind of setting released 20 years ago. The line-up is completed by Edsel Gomez on Rhodes and by bassist Lincoln Goines (known for his work with the much missed Bob Berg). You gain the best Herwig solo going higher up his register on the piece. Seattle jazz indie Origin are having a great year and this - recorded at a Tribeca art shop on Chambers Street called Philip Williams Posters in New York - is among their best.

Robby Ameen:

Grammy Award-winning drummer Robby Ameen has lived in New York City since the early ’80s and has established a recording and touring career stretching from Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon, while maintaining a more than 20-year relationship with Latin icon Ruben Blades as a member of Los Seis del Solar.

Although he is of Lebanese origin, Ameen is best known for the unique and powerful Afro-Cuban jazz style he has developed. Other long-term musical relationships include Dave Valentin, Eddie Palmieri, Jack Bruce, Kip Hanrahan, and Conrad Herwig’s multi-Grammy nominated Latin Side All-stars.

He has recorded on over 200 records and played on numerous major film scores and television shows including the hit series Sex and the City .

As a leader, Ameen wrote, arranged, and produced his CDs  Days in the Life, and most lately, Days in the Night, which Down Beat magazine recently awarded 4 stars. As a co-leader he has recorded three records with the El Negro and Robby Band alongside drummer Horacio “el Negro” Hernandez. In addition he helped found the Latin-jazz power trio Overproof, and also made two latin-jazz records with Seis del Solar.

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