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Album Info
Release Date: 2021Label: Summit Records
“Stephen Anderson’s piano playing is a bright star on the jazz horizon.” "This music [is] spirited and joyful, even in the face of COVID and so much death and sadness. This music is healing. These songs uplift and give hope."—Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs August 2021
“Best of the Best”
“Powerful music played so collaboratively and communicatively that you'd never guess it was recorded "from afar" (remotely) from North and South Carolina, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.”
—Chris M. Slawecki, All About Jazz
(Dominican Jazz Project, Desde Lejos, Summit Records)
“Here’s some hot jazz from the Dominican accented by local folklore highlights and breakneck playing. A high-octane extravaganza…”
—Chris Spector, Midwest Record (Review of Desde Lejos)
“…a reminder of the power of music and brotherhood.”
—Mark Sullivan, All About Jazz
"A national pride..."
—2019 Dominican Republic Jazz Festival
Personal loss and physical separation couldn't dim the spirit of The Dominican Jazz Project. Every Bit as remarkable as the vibrant, passionate music on Desde Lejos...is the mere fact of it's existence
[i.e., due to the pandemic].
—Michael Roberts, JAZZIZ