Duncan Fitton

Kirsty a girl from Gibraltar , (Llanita in Spanish slang) together with Bassist Matt Owens and pianist Andrew Baranek wrote and produced this Latin Jazz album of extraordinary maturity in their early twenties, using the best graduates of the Royal Northern College of Music. There are great covers of Nature Boy and Heard it through the Grapevine, with a superb trumpet solo . The original songs range through danceable Salsa , Cumbia and Cha Cha Cha to Afro/-Cuban Rumba and Bolero. A knowledge of Spanish helps maximise appreciation of the witty angry and romantic lyrics .I loved this music when I first heard it live in a Manchester jazz club; time has not changed my feelings.