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La empaliza

from Dr. Merengue by Paul Austerlitz

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La empalizá”

Actively supporting merengue as a form of propaganda for his regime, the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo sponsored a radio station called La Voz Dominicana which hired many musicians during the mid-twentieth century. Trumpeter Hector de Leon was acknowledged as the ring-leader among jazz players at the station. His brother, alto saxophonist Choco de Leon, was also an adept jazzman, remembered for his brilliant instrumental versions of traditional merengues with extended jazz-influenced solos, upon which my offering is based.

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from Dr. Merengue, released March 27, 2019

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Paul Austerlitz Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Paul Austerlitz is Coordinator of Jazz and Professor of Music and Africana Studies at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music, Gettysburg College. He combines his creative work as a musician with ethnomusicological research on Afro-Caribbean music. Austerlitz is especially active in blending the music of the Dominican Republic and Haiti with jazz. ... more

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