Bassist Fernando Huergo Spins Brazilian Jazz-Fusion

Boston-based Argentinian electric bassist and composer Fernando Huergo is one of a kind. On his album, Living These Times, his groove-engine of wide popularity presents a series of Latin jazz inflected compositions featuring his peers, Luciana Souza, Grazyna Auguscik, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Eric Galm and Ole Mathisen to mention a few. These great musicians, apart from Huergo and Souza, are hardly common household names in their genre, but they all deserve to be.

The opening Albiazul refers to the color of the Argentine flag, and the other titles are a fresh mix of English and Spanish titles, as Huergo's life as an Argentino-American most likely presents itself daily. So is the music. Fusion and electric interfaced Latin rhythms intertwine mightily in this setting, combined with jazz solos. A particular delight is the Afro-Cuban rendition of the traditional jazz standard "How High the Moon", on which Guadeloupe-native Schwarz-Bart takes a breathtaking solo.

Huergo is an artist of tremendous caliber. His visions for a natural blend for expressing music of his South American origin and his North American life are stupendous. This could easily be utilized in contexts where cultural, even political, tensions are in need of a release; as Huergo's song title aptly expresses "The Reason Why We Don't Get Along." Here is your solution.