Great music!
author: Batanga radio listener
I heard this music on the Batanga.com online radio station. Great music, superb musicians and nice arrangements. Couldn't wait until christmas so I bought it today ;)
Does anyone know if these guys recorded more albums than just this one?
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my favorite musical elements in one amazing package
author: Rafe Gomez, host of "The Groove Boutique"
Pachito combines all of my favorite musical elements in one amazing package: powerful performances, pristine production, boundless energy, original arrangements, and phat Latin rhythms. The result is a sound that's so joyous, so strong, and so irresistible, I actually look forward to the room's reaction when I spin their tracks in a club - it's always euphoric! Pachito's songs are hip enough for the most discriminating NYC nightclubbers yet commercial enough for national radio play on my syndicated American jazz mix show "The Groove Boutique". Muy sabroso, muy caliente, muy increíble - amo Pachito!!!
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Panchito CD of the month on Jazzis
author: JAZZIS.COM
This is one of those completely anonymous albums that put a smile the size of a moon on my face. Panchito are a Dutch nonet, led by guitarist André van Berlo, who also composed and arranged all the music, which plays Latin jazz. So what's the big deal you ask? Well the big deal is what is played and how it's played. There are countless Latin jazz bands around the globe, between Cuba and Timbuktu, which beat the hell out of their congas, but only very few of these bands can make Salsa sound like Art. What the members of Panchito lack in their genes (none of them seem to be of Cuban heritage) they amply compensate in their ability to play and improvise. The European musical heritage of preciseness and clarity, combined with the fire in the soul is in this case an overwhelming success. There is none of the sloppiness often found in Latin jazz, which can be charming sometimes but often quite annoying. Every note here is clean as a whistle and exactly right. And if you think this stuff is an anemic version of Irakere, you are dead wrong – just listen to the music and you won't be able to stop yerbuty from sheikin'. Just pour yourself a long drink, put this album on full volume, relax and close your eyes and off you go to tropic paradise…
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Exciting CD news for Latin jazz lovers.
author: Jørgen Schaarup Hansen
The Dutch 10- man orchestra, Panchito, is an exciting CD news for Latin jazz lovers. The band has toured and practised since the spring of 1999 and has in the period also slowly started to play own material. There is put weight on compositions, and CD one is more jazz and less afro-Cubanly, like Irakére after Sandoval and D'RIVERAS departure, but with the same funky influx for the music. There are factors, where the nonet unfolds itself splendidly in liquid teamworks, and if it's a conscious choice to wait with passing it off on CD as to manage to a more interact and done expression, it has at each fall been a success. The tunes seem fresh, and without that it seems forced of a demand for making own things, in a genre that is so rich in tradition and classic tunes. The group is 'rent' ethnically Dutch, a small curiosity or maybe just an example that European music really has stayed more international. All in all incredibly cast solidly, where the only small wish might be that one, in order to see what did happen, let the group momentarily go away from the full orchestra size and drive course of eventses with less livestock. Just as a lot for the curiosity's fault, because the group really seems talented.
Jørgen Schaarup Hansen
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