Robyatt Audio: Room #519

Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators

“FLOWER BY A DRY RIVER”

"I would like to give special thanks to Peter Ledermann for putting his heart and soul into this amazing mission of helping children of needs around the world, and for his genius recording this album." - Elio Villafranca

"A steller team of musicians led by a remarkably creative, Grammy-nominated pianist, two great ensembles, and a topnotch engineering team, all making a direct-to-disc AAA recording. It was not to be missed." - Michael Fremer, Stereophile Magazine Analog Corner, March 2012

"I sat in the monitoring room... Then the music erupted through the room's vintage monitor speakers ...musically and technically, that first side was explosive. If what I heard was any indication, the resulting album will be musically and sonically spectacular." - Michael Fremer, Stereophile Magazine Analog Corner, March 2012

"A great deal of modern jazz is neck up. This album is mostly neck down intended to move your emotions and set the mood. It does that as well as adjusting the lighting and the temperature too! Musically its 90% successful, which is saying a great deal for a direct to disc recording of a large jazz ensemble performing complex arrangements. You don't get the sense that any of these veterans held back." - Michael Fremer, www.analogplanet.com, Music 9/11, Sound 7/11!

Features:

• Direct To Disc (D2D)

• Executive Producer Robin Wyatt

• Double 33 1/3rpm Speed 180 Gram LPs

• Direct To Disc Mastering by Peter Ledermann of Soundsmith

• Stereo

Musicians:

Elio Villafranca, piano

Vincent Herring, alto sax

JD Allen III, tenor sax

Bruce Harris, trumpet

Gregg August, bass

Victor Lewis, drums

Junago Gutierrez, barril

Camilo Molina Gaitan, barril