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For those unaware, 1. Pasilleando
2. Prelude X
3. NY Minute
4. Amazonas
5. Johnny Come Lately
6. Bye Bye Brasil
7. Sous Le Vent
8. One Step Behind 9. Gabriela

This brand new recording opens on the sprightly Pasilleando (their take on Pasillo) and the veritably hauntingly ethereal Prelude X and then comes the pulsating NY Minute and the playfully rhythmic, NYC-Latin influenced Amazonas.

Along next is the jauntily-grooved Johnny Come Lately (one of Billy Strayhorn’ most swinging compositions for Duke Ellington) and the opulent Bye Bye Brasil (which depicts the Brazilian emotion of saudade) and they are in turn backed by the delicate title track Sous Le Vent(another of the 24 Preludes re-born as a Jazz tune in the Choro style), the album closing on the organic One Step Behind and the fabulously-crafted Gabriela.