he and his band played<\/a> at the recent Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival—with dramatic differences. Orchestras with string sections at sessions in Buenos Aires and Seattle provide soaring accompaniments in arrangements by Medina, pianist Eric Verlinde, saxophonist-flutist Guto Lucena and Lucena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fellow Brazilian Felipe Salles. To great effect, Salles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 setting of Tony Lujan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Forever My Love\u00e2\u20ac\u009d alternates dreaminess and zest. Lucena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrangements of pieces by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astor Piazolla capture the composers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 spirits. Medina does the Mexican standard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153La Bikina\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a waltz that allows him to double on flugelhorn and accordion. <\/p>\nSoloists include musicians from North and South America. On Piazolla\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Libertango,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Seattleite Verlinde shines in a piano solo that sets up a dashing chase sequence with Medina and guest trumpeter Gustavo Bergalli from Argentina. Lucena demonstrates the power on flute and soprano saxophone that also informed his playing at Ystad. As the principal soloist, Medina is impressive not only for his command of the trumpet and flugelhorn, but also for the blues feeling often at the heart of his solos whether he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s improvising on traditional Latin music or an attractive hybrid like his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tullum.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[contextly_auto_sidebar id=”aEgppVeQ8himumZHu4LiGlQdMn8b2XfI”] Bobby Medina, Between Worlds (Medina) The trumpeter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album includes much of the repertoire that he and his band played at the recent Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival—with dramatic differences. Orchestras with string sections at sessions in Buenos Aires and Seattle provide soaring accompaniments in arrangements by Medina, pianist Eric Verlinde, saxophonist-flutist Guto Lucena and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Bobby Medina<\/strong>, Between Worlds<\/em><\/a> (Medina)<\/p>\n