With its dreamy melodicism and throbbing percussion,
the bolero may be the most romantic of all South
American dances. Roger Davidson, the versatile, feverishly prolific composer-pianist, has assembled some of the most outstanding Latin music recording artists to make this album inspired by his love of boleros and rumbas. The group includes Cuban-born, Miami-based drummer Ignacio Berroa, a master of the bolero who among his extensive credits, plays on Charlie Haden's two recorded salutes to the bolero, Land of the Sun and the Grammy-winning Nocturne; Pernell Saturnino, one of the premiere percussionists in Latin jazz, who has recorded with David Sanchez, Paquito D'Rivera, and Gilberto Gil; David Finck who has been firstcall bassist for Dizzy Gillespie, Ivan Lins, Rosemary Clooney, Glen Campbell, among countless others; Marco Granados, the Grammy-nominated Venezuelan flutist; Kenny Rampton, a New York-based trumpeter who has played in the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band; Francisco Pancho Navarro, the Argentine guitarist who is a tango specialist with an across-the-board flair for Latin music.

Pensando en Ti presents original boleros and rumbas played by a sizzling first-rate band.

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