PRESS
CD REVIEWS
METAL CARIBE
"On a program that stretches the boundaries of Latin and jazz into tantalizing new contours, Richie Zellon has entered a zone where strikingly dissimilar rhythms from throughout the Americas blend magically with unanticipated melodic detours and buoyant jazz improvisations to create a dazzling new idiom." - Mark Holston JAZZIZ
"On Metal Caribe, Zellon produces his most well-traveled, seamless effort yet, illustrating the common threads in music and cultural experience through endlessly surprising compositions and arrangements."- JAZZTIMES
"...Zellon transcends the Cuban and/or Brazilian confines established by most Latin jazz practitioners."- LATIN BEAT
"Zellon makes a compelling case for Latin jazz as a new kind of international language on Metal Caribe."- HISPANIC
"If there is one contemporary musician who truly personifies the successful synthesis of the myriad pan-American genres into unconventional and compelling new forms, it is undoubtedly Lima, Peru-born guitarist, composer, and all around music alchemist Richie Zellon"- AMERICAS
THE NAZCA LINES
"A genuine marriage of Afro-Latin rhythms with the towering influences of Jimi Hendrix, Astor Piazzolla and Duke Ellington." -Bill Milkowski JAZZ TIMES
"Creativity and experimentation are essential for the evolution and enrichment of jazz. That's why we believe that Richie Zellon's work is very important as well as timely during a period in which Latin jazz is beginning to display symptoms of stagnation rhythmically as well as harmonically."
-Elmer Gonzales LATIN BEAT
"Zellon deserves attention.” RHYTHM MUSIC
"The Nazca Lines is an uncommonly ambitious effort that audaciously points Latin jazz in a new direction." NEW YORK LATINO
"He's a guitarist to keep your eye on, playing a style of Jazz Guitar he shares with no one." CADENCE MAGAZINE
CAFÉ CON LECHE
"This is what the next chapter in the merger of jazz and Latin music sounds like."
- Bob Blumenthal BOSTON GLOBE
"Fresh Latin jazz worthy of its name and not just Latinized jazz." -LATIN BEAT
"Utililizing a stellar cast of musicians, authentic instruments and unique arrangements, the Peruvian-born guitarist stirs up a percolating pot of rhythms…It's an often challenging work which takes the oft-combined Latin and jazz areas to the next plane." JAZZ TIMES
"An engaging debut that puts yet another twist on the ever-evolving Latin jazz movement…an album of musical depth and aural delights." JAZZIZ
"Zellon has opened up to jazz a cultural tradition that has been largely overlooked on this side of the equator." CD REVIEW
"Zellon's composing and arranging skills are impressive throughout the album…based on Latin rhythms-from the familiar tango to the more exotic Afro-Peruvian festejo and lando…Its blend of jazz and Latin idioms is organic and original." THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
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