Tumalan Music: News
On Stage with Tony Vega. Festival de la isla 2008 - August 28, 2008
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Article review from the Latin Beat Magazine - August 3, 2008
CD release: Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel: Drummers Speak.
San Francisco Bay Area trap drummer Brian Andrés presents a hot debut album that pays tribute to a long list of drummers who have influenced him. To show what he has gleaned from these giants, he chose a composition by each of such icons, and worked it into a hot salsa or Latin jazz vehicle, with the help of ace pianist Christian Tumalan and bassist Saul Sierra, who contributed the arrangements. Tumalan also co-produced the date and came up with a refreshing result, reflecting the new blood on the Bay Area Latin scene today. Luminaries include Mike Olmos on trumpet, one of the Bay's best kept secrets and most creative instrumentalists. Percussionists Carlos Caro and Patricio Angulo play a big role too. Cuban singer Fito Reinoso guests on the rumba rendering of Complicación, and Gloria Amaral guests on the salsa band version of the song. Recorded at Ari Rios' "Laughing Tiger Studios" in San Rafael, the result is a technically sound album with plenty of energy and enthusiasm.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Latin Beat Magazine
San Francisco Bay Area trap drummer Brian Andrés presents a hot debut album that pays tribute to a long list of drummers who have influenced him. To show what he has gleaned from these giants, he chose a composition by each of such icons, and worked it into a hot salsa or Latin jazz vehicle, with the help of ace pianist Christian Tumalan and bassist Saul Sierra, who contributed the arrangements. Tumalan also co-produced the date and came up with a refreshing result, reflecting the new blood on the Bay Area Latin scene today. Luminaries include Mike Olmos on trumpet, one of the Bay's best kept secrets and most creative instrumentalists. Percussionists Carlos Caro and Patricio Angulo play a big role too. Cuban singer Fito Reinoso guests on the rumba rendering of Complicación, and Gloria Amaral guests on the salsa band version of the song. Recorded at Ari Rios' "Laughing Tiger Studios" in San Rafael, the result is a technically sound album with plenty of energy and enthusiasm.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Latin Beat Magazine
Christian Tumalan with Puerto Rican Singer Johnny Rivera - September 9, 2007
Johnny Rivera performed last, backed by an all Bay Area star band, which included Armando and Jeff Cordoba, Luis Morales and Karl Perazzo from the Carlos Santana Band, and pianist Christian Tumalan, (this last one very busy on Saturday as we saw him again that evening at Roccapulco, playing with the Julio Bravo band.)