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Latin jazz great Hilario Duran, bassist Jodi Proznick win big at jazz awards Durán and Virelles meet Glenn Gould - thelivemusicreport.ca - by Tova G. Kardonne - October 2, 2007 - Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto. Cuban Summit - Pedrito Calvo and Hilario Durán - thelivemusicreport.ca - by Joyce Corbett - Sept. 30, 2007 - LULA Lounge, Toronto.
From The Heart - AllAboutJazz.com - By Edward Blanco - 2006 HILARIO DURAN - From The Heart - JazzTimes.com - By David Whiteis - Nov. 2006 The Beaches swing to the sounds of jazz - International Jazz Fest is turning 18 this year and the lineup keeps getting better - Jul. 16, 2006. www.corrieretandem.com Cuban super session - For his new album, Hilario Duran was joined by two other jazz greats from Castro's island - Jul. 4, 2006. www.thestar.com Thank you from T.dot for the cha cha cha - By Joyce Corbett - July 1, 2006. www.thelivemusicreport.com Hilario
Duran thinks big INTERVIEW:
Hilario
Durán on Latin Jazz Network.
“...Virtuosity
in Cuba is also often matched of necessity to versatility. Durán
is a case in point. His last band in Havana, Perspectiva, employed synthesizers
and played fusion-jazz, while his Canadian recordings are replete with
traditional jazz references -that's a quote from the classic 'Stormy Weather',
for example, in 'Autumn Nocturne' on Habana Nocturna'- and contemporary
jazz harmonies." "Hilario
Durán is an unparalleled pianist, as well as being a composer and
arranger of the first order... one of the greatest Stone and Spin Cuban
pianists of this 20th Century.” “With
what old-time barrelhouse and boogie players used to call 'a left hand
like God', and a fertile harmonic and melodic imagination, Durán
shines..." "Beginning
the session with a bubbling, hyperactive solo medley dubbed 'Homage To
Chano Pozo', Durán showed how adept he is at making the fusion
of Latin rhythms, African roots and North American jazz a musical event
that's refreshing, a jumping-off point for innovative experiment." "Durán's
signature showed itself. It is a lightning-fast right hand that darts
out and ignites bursts of aural fireworks. Contrasted against jagged rhythm
patterns played in the middle register, these explosions are like joyous
shrieks heard at carnival time" “Hilario
Durán is the latest virtuoso jazz pianist to emerge from Havana...
these were bravura performances, in which Durán made abundantly
clear his comfort with all of the extremes that a piano holds, and spanned
the distances between them - between the most heavily percussive and the
most lightly lyrical - with a roll of the wrists - some roll, some wrists." Hilario Durán
is one of the top few virtuoso jazz pianists from Cuba. In jazz critic
Robert Palmer words, Hilario "is simply one hell of a modern jazz
pianist" who is gifted "with what old-time barrelhouse and boogie
players used to call 'a left hand like God', and a fertile harmonic and
melodic imagination." |
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"
Durán is a genuine virtuoso, attacking the keyboard with an arsenal
of devices that includes runs executed in octaves, block chords at fast
tempos, and that method so characteristic of Cuban pianists, sudden dance
figures executed in two hand unison. While these can sometimes feel like
habits, the energy that they create is a virtue in itself. Durán's
creativity is heightened when he finds ways to challenge that vast technique."