Description
Manongo Mujica (drums, percussion), Jean Pierre Magnet (tenor saxophone), Julio “Chocolate” Algendones (percussion) and Enrique Luna (electric bass) founded Perujazz in 1984.
This LP has been one of the best kept secrets in Peruvian music not just because it documents one of the key bands of Afro-Peruvian jazz but also because it’s testimony to the period when the group reached maturity. Now we can enjoy the sound created by the coming together of four individuals who invented their own musical universe. Few bands display the imagination and deep feeling that we find in Perujazz. It’s a band that’s managed to define a new place at the meeting point of traditional and avant-garde music, taking jazz into new territories.
Luis Alvarado
