Yayo’s first album was the beginning of a long journey and the path continues ahead of him. Los Andes Jazz Project was experimental and used a large ensemble setting. The difference is quite big as the electric guitars and synthesizers mixed with the fiery horn section gives a much more latin flavor. Yayo’s latin jazz influences can be heard and this album has you wanting to dance, but the immensely lyrical melodies give it a mature edge worthy of a sit down audience. Like the second album he incorporates Aymaran lyrics on a couple of songs. This album clearly marks the beginning of a new approach to Latin Jazz, that will not only excite the listener but take them on a journey stretching from the Altiplano to a small downtown jazz club.

Featuring: Jerry González (tpt), Manuel Machado (tpt), Andrés Bedó (pno), Bob Sands (t/s.Sax & flute), Bobby Martínez (t/a.Sax & flute), Cheryl Walters (Tbn), Germán Kucich (pno), Jaime Muela (flute), Javier Massó ”Carmelo” (pno), José M. Illera (guit), Juan San Martín (bass), Martín G Leyton (bass), Gustavo Gregorio (bass), Miguel Blanco (bass), Norman Hogue (tbn), Ovidio López (guit), Patxi Urchegui (tpt), Peter Oteo (bass) and Txuma Segura (guit).

Album Reviews

Luc Delannoy, author of ¡Caliente History of Latin Jazz and other music books published in France, Canada and the United

States, based in New York. Professor of philosophy of music, contemporary aesthetic and cognitive musicology at several universities in the United States and Mexico. Has dedicated in his latest book Carambola Vidas en el Jazz Latino (second volume of History of Latin Jazz) nothing less than Eight pages to Yayo Morales’s Los Andes Jazz Project.

• “The initial results from the work of Morales appear in a fascinating album, Los Andes Jazz Project, recorded with musicians from Argentina, Uruguay, U.S., Spain, Cuba and Cuban-American”…
•  …“…Morales has undertaken many years ago, a research on what he calls Andean rhythms, Afro-Andean and Afro-Bolivian, to merge them with Jazz …”
•  Percusión Total Magazzine (Nº 5)

• Los Andes Jazz Project

  El Kallawaya / The Witch Doctor / El médico Brujo

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  Carnaval Caporal

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  Joselito / To My Brother / A Mi Hermano

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  Awicha / Grandmother / Abuela

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  Pachamama / Mother Earth / Madre Tierra

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  Waka-Tokory / Bull's Dance / Baile del Toro

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  El Cóndor Zappa

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  AfroSaya

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  Pinturas al Óleo / Oil Paintings / To my Parents / A mis Padres

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