AMARO FREITAS — Sangue Negro (review)

AMARO FREITAS — Sangue Negro album cover Album · 2016 · Latin Jazz Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Rexorcist
I've been checking out a lot of artists who are quite new to me so I can keep up with the best new albums of 2024, and I've been using the RYM charts to help me with that. People seem to really like the new Amaro Freitas, so since he only has four albums out, I'm gonna get through all of them today.

Now my first impressions when I saw that this album had elements of various Brazilian genres, I thought to myself, "Cool. This oughta be fun." Um, not really. It's a decnt jazz album it its own right, but the Brazilian aspects of this album are faint to the point of being almost completely drowned out by the standard post-bop behavior. This album sounds like a standard jazz album you'd get from 1959. Sure, there are some quirky compositions here, but there's not a lot of personality. Hopefully the other albums are better.

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