# CD review: Robby Ameen – Diluvio 2020: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/11/26/cd-review-robby-ameen-diluvio-2020-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2020-11-26T10:37:13+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Grammy-winning New York drummer Robby Ameen has had an established recording and
touring career stretching from Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon over the last four 
decades, highlighted by a 20-year run with the band of Latin icon Rubén Blades. **

Although he’s of Lebanese origin, Ameen is best known for the unique and powerful
Afro-Cuban jazz style he developed and displayed on hundreds of recordings, including
many with **Dave Valentin**, **Eddie Palmieri**, **Kip Hanrahan**, and **Conrad 
Herwig’s Latin Side All-Stars**. **_Diluvio_** marks Ameen’s 3rd release as a composer,
arranger & band leader, teaming with **Troy Roberts**, **Bob Franceschini**, **Conrad
Herwig**, **Edsel Gómez**, **Lincoln Goines**, **Bill O’Connell** & **Mauricio Herrera**,
most with whom he goes back several decades. Musically, it’s his vision of the sounds
he’s dedicated a lifetime to exploring: Afro-Cuban music with deep strains of contemporary
hard bop and funk, thoroughly infused with an indomitable spirit.

### **Track list**

1. Fast Eye 5:28
 2. Cremant 6:58 3. Tempest Dance 7:37 4. Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’
Mensch und Gott, BWV 127: Aria 4:27 5. The Drifter’s Plan 5:54 6. Mixology 5:09 
7. Into the Clear 5:53 8. Line for Lyons 6:18 9. Impressions 3:25

### **Personnel**

**Troy Roberts** – tenor sax (1,6,7,8,9) & soprano (4)
 **Bob Franceschini** – tenor
sax (1,2,3,4,6), soprano (4,5), bari (8) **Conrad Herwig** – trombone (1,2,3,5,8)**
Edsel Gomez** – piano (2,3,4,5), fender rhodes (1) **Bill O’Connell** – piano (6,7,8),
fender rhodes (5) **Lincoln Goines** – acoustic & electric bass **Robby Ameen** –
drums **Mauricio Herrera** – congas & cajón

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