★★★★★
Combining elements of bebop, big-band swing and ideas drawn from virtually the entire history of Afro-Cuban jazz (from Santeria rituals to the present day), Cuban pianist Hilario Duran's music is charged with flamboyance and displays of technical wizardry, yet leavened with a romanticism that's lush but never bathetic—he wears his emotions on his fingertips, where they belong, instead of on his sleeve...
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2010-02-19
★★★★★
Hilario Duran has served as a member of bands led by trumpeter Arturo Sandoval as well as saxophonist-flutist Jane Bunnett's Spirits of Havana. Duran occupies the same rarefied air of Cuban pianists inhabited by Chucho Valdes, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Emiliano Salvador; these are artists who are as comfortable in the Afro-Cuban milieu as in a hard bop setting...
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2010-02-19
★★★★★
On From the Heart, pianist and composer Hilario Duran showcases his new 20-piece Latin Jazz Big Band. The ten-song disc is a vibrant release that recalls the seminal jazz bands of Duran's native Cuba without sounding like it is covering old ground. The CD is a tribute to Chucho Valdez, Ernesto Lecuona, and others who have inspired Duran...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Hilario Duran has a great emotional attachment to this album. It is a return to Havana to see colleagues and old friends which comes off brilliantly on this new album entitled Encuentro en la Habana.It is not easy to follow up an award winning album but Hilario has. Winner of the 2005 Juno Awards for Contemporary Jazz Album with New Danzon, Duran went back to his roots and Cuba to record this new album in February of 2006...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-07
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