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Federico Cervantes
Heard Around The World, Vol. 2

Album US 1976 on Forever Jewel Concert Records label
Jazz and Latin (Afro-Cuban Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Latin Jazz)

FEDERICO CERVANTES ON THIS ALBUM REALLY SHOWS OFF HIS BEST! HIS TRUMPET IS MASTERFUL AND DOMINANT---EXCELLENT HIGH-NOTE RANGE---GOOD COMPOSITIONS (ORIGINALS BY FEDERICO) WITH VERY SIPID ACCOMPANIMENT (EMILIO 'TUG-TUG' GARICA, GUITAR DUANE VIZ, ELECTRICIAN--FEDERICO CERVANTES, TRUMPET AND VOCAL.) THE TUEN, 'JULIA TE QUIERO' WAS OBVIOUSLY WRITTEN FOR HIS CHILEAN WIFE AND IS A HAUNTING AS WELL AS UNFORGETABLE MELODY. CERVANTES HAS ALSO SCORED THIS COMPOSITION FOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ('LOTS OF VIOLAS AND NO VIOLINS!') IN HIS COMPOSITION, 'JULIA TE QUIERO', CERVANTES DEMONSTRATES THE BREADTH OF HIS TRUMPET STYLE WHILE NEVER PLAYING ABOVE HIGH A. - JUST BEFORE ENDING HIS MUSICAL ENGAGEMENT IN MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY (1968), FEDERICO MET A TALENTED VOCALIST FOR WHOM HE WROTE THE SONG, 'CATHY.' - 'CARELESSLY' IS ONE OF THE SONGS CERVANTES SINGS IN THIS ALBUM ('CATHY' IS THE OTHER ONE ON WHICH FEDERICO ACCOMPANIES HIMSELF AT THE PIANO.) THE LYRICS AND RHYME IN, 'CARELESSLY' ARE VERY CLEVER, AND THE CHORD-PROGRESSION IS VERY MODERN AGAINST A MELODY WHICH YOU COULD EASILY THINK YOU'VE HEARD ALL YOUR LIFE. - GHOST HORN' IS A REAL SHOWCASE FOR SERVANTS TRUMPET. HIS CADENZAS ARE BRIEF BUT SUSPENSEFUL. THE SOLO-INTRODUCTION WILL REALLY 'BLOW YOU AWAY', AS CERVANTES' CONTROL AND INTONATION IN THE UPPER-RANGE IS INCREDIBLE! (IN HIS BOOK, 'TRUMPET IN HAND MEANS TRUMPET MASTERY', FEDERICO SERVANTS PROUDLY REVEALS HOW SUCH CONTROL AND NOTE-PRECISION CAN BE ACHIVED. HE ALSO REMINISCES ABOUT HIS DAYS OF LEARNING JAZZ IN SAN FRANCISCO'S OLD BOP CITY.) - ALL OF THE COMPOSITIONS IN THIS ALBUM ARE VERY GOOD AND SPOTLIGHT WITHOUT APOLOGY OF ANY KIND A GREAT MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, AND TRUMPETER--FEDERICO CERVANTES. - FEDERICO CERVANATES WAS BORN MARCH 21, 1936(MATANZAS CUBA) AND IN ADDITION TO SPANISH AND ENGLISH SPEAKS ORUBA. HE FORMALLY STUDIED THE VIOLIN AND TRUMPET. FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN 20 YEARS HE'S BEEN WITHOUT SIGHT. BUT NOTE FOR NOTE HE CONTINUES TO DICATE HIS BIG BAND CHARTS THROUGH A COPYIST. - THIS IS DEFINITELY THE ALBUM FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES TRUMPET - MUSIC AND FOR ANYONE AND ALL WHO WANT TO HEAR SUPER-LATIVE JAZZ-TRUMPET. Price $7.00 FOREVER JEWELL CONCERT P.O. BOX 42457 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94142 Stereo Recording Golden State Recording Studios San Francisco, California FOREVER JEWELL CONCERT RECORDS - FJC 1037 RECORDED 1976, U'.S. OF AMERICA ASCAP

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	Federico Cervantes voc, tr, trumpet, vocals, album by, composed by
	Duane Viz electric piano
	Emilio "Tug-Tug" Garica guitar

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