Afro-Cuban Dream ... Live & In Clave!!!
Long overshadowed byJerry Gonzalezand his Fort Apache Band, percussionist and bandleader Bobby Sanabria has been one of the  hardest-working Latin jazz musicians in New York. This recording,  captured live at Birdland in 1999, is the long-awaited follow-up to his  first CD,New York City  Ache!and features his big-band riffing and grooving in the  style ofMachito,Dizzy Gillespie, andTito Puente.  Trumpeter Phillip Michael Mossman's bop-born burner, "Mosscode," is a  swinging shout-out to Gillespie's "Shaw 'Nuff," and the standard "Angel  Eyes" is recast as a ballroom bolero. Tenor and soprano saxistsJay CollinsandJohn Stubblefieldboth recallRahsaan  Roland Kirkand take theColtraneon  theson montuno"Nuyorican  Son" and on "Olokun/Yemanja," a 5/4 mambo in praise of African deities.  LegendarycongueroCandido Camero shows up as a special guest,  lending his complex cross-rhythms to the fiery update of '40s Afro- Cubop staple "Manteca." With one hand in Havana and another in Harlem,  Bobby Sanabria scores big here.--Eugene Holley Jr.