Album Notes

"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-travelled, 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




"En un programa que ensancha las fronteras de lo Latino y del Jazz a nuevos y seductores niveles, Richie Zellon ha entrado a una zona donde ritmos, notablemente diferentes de toda America, se mezclan magicamente con inesperadas vueltas melodicas y boyantes improvisaciones de Jazz para crear un nuevo y deslumbrante idioma."
Mark Holston -Jazziz






"...Zellon traciende los confines Cubanos/Brasileros establecidos por la mayoria de ejecutantes de Latin Jazz."
- Latin Beat



"En Metal Caribe, Zellon propone al Latin jazz como un nuevo tipo de lenguaje internacional ."-Hispanic



"Si existe un músico contemporáneo que personifique verdaderamente la exitosa síntesis de los innumerables géneros panamericanos en nuevas formas vibrantes y no convencionales, ése es sin duda el guitarrista, compositor y alquimista musical limeño Richie Zellon."
-Americas