Los Hombres Calientes: Irving Mayfield & Bill Summers

THE BRAND NEW Orleans-based jazz group called Los Hombres Calientes comprises of such brilliant members as trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, drummer Jason Marsalis, and longtime percussionist Expenses Summers, who spent some time working with artists just like the Headhunters, Quincy Jones, and Stevie Wonder. Others detailed in the credits for Los Hombres Calientes are pianist Victor “Crimson” Atkins, bassist David Pulphus, as well as the just female, Expenses Summer’s wife, Yvette Bostic-Summers, who provides percussion and vocals. The band’s music gives enthusiasts sizzling Latin jazz rhythms flavored with Brazilian and Afro-Cuban spirit. Talent appears to work deep in the music group. Drummer Jason Marsalis originates from a long type of musically gifted males. One of is own brothers, Wynton Marsalis, offers earned a Pulitzer Reward for his music; two additional brothers, Branford and Delfeayo Marsalis, are each locating their method in the music globe. Their dad, pianist Ellis Marsalis, can be a first-class musician in his personal ideal. Los Hombres Calientes, which occurs to suggest the Hot Males in English, produced their outstanding debut in early 1998 at a golf club in New Orleans known as Snug Harbor. Within per month, the group acquired gained themselves a gig on the well-known Home of Blues, and in addition signed an archive cope with Basin Road Information. In 1998, the group documented their self-titled debut record. The outstanding ten-track album holds quantities like “Stardust,” “After You’re Eliminated,” and “Irvin’s Turmoil.” The record was selected as a high local discharge for the entire year by the brand new Orleans Times-Picayune paper. That same season, Offbeat Magazine called the music group as Greatest New Modern Jazz Music group and Greatest New Latin Music group. When Billboard Magazine’s best jazz albums had been detailed, Los Hombres Calientes’ debut was at amount 25. A following record, Los Hombres Calientes, Vol. 2, strike the store cabinets in 1999, attracting more excellent testimonials. A number of the album’s music are “Youthful Lover initially View” and “FEEL JUST LIKE Makin’ Appreciate”. David Pulphus got said goodbye towards the group by this time around and bassist Edwin Livingston got used his place. Keyboardist Ronald Markham got also been put into the lineup. 2000 noticed the discharge of Quantity 3: New Congo Square. Featuring Horacio ‘Un Negro’ Hernandez, who changed Jason Marsalis behind the drums, the record tracked the musical and ethnic cable connections between New Orleans and Cuba, Jamaica, as well as the Dominican Republic. The indefinable New Congo Square visited get a Grammy nomination. In March of 2003, Mayfield, Summers and Los Hombres Calientes came back with Vol.4: Vodou Dance. Because of this saving, the group continuing their musical moves, documenting both contemporary and historic African and Afro-based music in Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti, and traditional western Cuba.