Two lively sets last night at Chris’s, here in Philly, by the Venezuela-born drummer and Latin jazz bandleader Marlon Simon, brother of piano phenom Edward. (The new Nagual Spirits album is Rumba A’ La Patato.)
Renato Thoms was a juggernaut on congas. Good original tunes, but the highlight was a fast, Latinized reading of Bobby Watson’s “Fuller Love,” from the ’80s book of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Best of all was hearing trumpeter Alex Norris, busy on the New York scene since 1992 but currently teaching down in Miami.
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