ALBUMS:

All-star Afro Latin Jazz Fusion Quintet, Octet, & Big-band Recordings on RVCD CDs and Digital Downloads.

CDs are available at CD Baby, Digital Downloads at iTunes.



Quintet Live

Featuring:
Walt Weiskopf
Mark Soskin
Anthony Jackson
Ricardo Candelaria

"...excellent music and musicianship ... a powerhouse band of veterans ... spirited improvisation and interplay. The best of Vazquez so far ..."
   (Michael G. Nastos/ All Music Guide)
"Vazquez himself was a marvel of constantly shifting patterns that flowed smoothly from one piece of his kit to another ... Latin jazz rarely sounds so cool."
   (Roger Levesque/ Edmonton Journal)

Includes:
  1. Intro (Vogue Theatre)
  2. Dance for Louise
  3. No Rest for the Bones of the Dead
  4. Beyond This Dream
  5. Sevilla
  6. No Place To Hide This Heart
  7. Sum Fun 2
  8. The Path of Change
  9. Las Mediosas
You can purchase Quintet Live as a digital download at iTunes or as a CD at CD Baby



Further Dance

Featuring:
Ricardo Candelaria
Anthony Jackson
Mark Soskin
Walt Weiskopf

"... a brilliant document."
   (B. Milkowski/Audio)
"Vazquez continues to re-define how we experience music ..."
   (H. Grey/JazzTimes)
"... one of the great overlooked CD's of the year."
   (B. Blumenthal/Boston Globe, July '97)
"An outstanding CD."
   (R. Rico/Latin Beat, April '97)

Includes:
  1. Sevilla
  2. Las Mediosas
  3. Beyond This Dream
  4. Sylviana
  5. Sum Fun Dango
  6. Tu Sabes
  7. No Place to Hide This Heart
  8. The Path of Change
  9. The Price
  10. Duo 2
  11. Further Dance
You can purchase Further Dance as a digital download at iTunes or as a CD at CD Baby



No Separate Love

Featuring:
Luis Conte
Walt Fowler
Anthony Jackson
Mark Soskin
Steve Tavaglione
Walt Weiskopf
Albert Wing
David Witham

"****, 'No Separate Love' doesn't lack for adventure or different, interesting textures... With an even split among New York and L.A. session players... Vazquez and company prove to be cohesive and heat-seeking. They cook it up on nearly every tune, whether the romp is Latin-based, street funk, or jazz-flavored."
   (R. Tolleson/Downbeat, January '92)

Includes:
  1. No Separate Love
  2. No Rest for the Bones of the Dead
  3. Turn Back the Dark
  4. In the Space Between
  5. Teresa
  6. Bailar [From Piano Analogies]
  7. The Day After
  8. In the Clear
  9. The River
  10. Thru a Window
  11. Children's Song [From Piano Analogies]
You can purchase No Separate Love as a digital download at iTunes or as a CD at CD Baby



Tides of Time

Featuring:
Dean Brown
Luis Conte
Ronnie Cuber
Anthony Jackson
Dave LaLama
Brian Lynch
Dick Oats
Mike Stern
Dan Wilensky

"****, Vazquez remains true to his musical vision on 'The Tides of Time,' a Latin-flavored offering with strong horn charts, percolating percussion work, irresistible grooves, and dynamic solos by a string of special guests... Vazquez' most ambitious piece is a cinematic suite which shifts moods and colors, going from big band explosion to a scaled-down quartet."
   (B. Milkowski/Downbeat, October '89)

Includes:
  1. Pire (The Inner Flame)
  2. Dance for Louise
  3. Kifaru [Live to 2-trk]
  4. Palladium (W. Shorter)
  5. Celestial Maiden
  6. 60 Berkley Place [Live to 2-trk]
  7. By What They Did Not See
  8. ...And He Wandered the Tides of Time [In Memory of My Father's Life]
You can purchase Tides of Time as a digital download at iTunes or as a CD at CD Baby



Feel Your Dream

Featuring:
Alex Acuna
Manolo Badrena
Jim Coile
Nathan East
Gary Herbig
Flim Johnson
Abe Laboriel
Bennie Maupin
Ralph Rickert
Steve Tavaglione
Phil Upchurch
Larry Williams

"The pioneering drummer-composer... broke a great deal of ground for the soulful, Latin rhythmic threads of contemporary jazz, as evidenced in the brisk horns leaping to life on ('Feel Your Dream')..."
   (H. Grey/JazzTimes, Jan/Feb '96)

Includes:
  1. Feel Your Dream
  2. The Spare
  3. G'Anna
  4. Nevermore... Than Now (C. Wike)
  5. Somewhat Others
  6. Only What Ya' Feel
  7. Let Their Voices Be As Music
  8. Together We Dream
(recorded in 1977-1981)

You can purchase Feel Your Dream as a digital download at iTunes or as a CD at CD Baby



Best of the L.A. Jazz Ensemble

Featuring:
Manolo Badrena
Mike Carnahan
Jim Coile
John Darst
Clare Fischer
Abe Laboriel
Bennie Maupin
Ralph Rickert
Patrice Rushen
Chuck Wike
Ken Wild
Larry Williams

"... an essential document, not to mention some of the most exciting, ahead-of-its-time big horn jazz ever recorded, on 'Best of the L.A. Jazz Ensemble.' This 'urban ensemble' formed in the mid-'70s, drew upon the finest musical talents of Southern California to create a unique soundtrack for Los Angeles - a living, forward-moving pulsebeat integrating multi-cultural textures... a must-have for any collection."
   (H. Grey/JazzTimes, June '94)

Includes:
  1. Atena
  2. Dark Dreamer
  3. Elegy for Stella Marie
  4. In the Life Before
  5. The Force That Flows
  6. Eternal Triangle
  7. Urantia
  8. She Might Be Spring
  9. And What Do You Like to Be Called?
  10. Abruja
(recorded in 1977)

You can purchase Best of the L.A. Jazz Ensemble as a digital download at iTunes or as a CD at CD Baby