{"id":5053,"date":"2013-09-13T03:59:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinomusiccafe.com\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2018-06-30T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T14:30:16","slug":"latin-jazz-album-michelle-pollace-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinomusiccafe.com\/2013\/09\/13\/latin-jazz-album-michelle-pollace-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin Jazz Album: Michelle Pollace “New Beginning”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“New Beginning” is an unpretentious and yet sassy Latin Jazz<\/a> album by Bay Area pianist Michelle Pollace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is one of those CDs that somehow gets to your hands and even though you might not know the artist, you’re glad you decided to check it out.<\/p>\n

Michelle is a South Bay native that has been in the Bay Area music scene for several years, participating in bands of various musical genres, eventually being attracted to Latin rhythms. She worked with musicians like Chepito Areas (Santana’s original percussionist\/arranger) and collaborated with percussionist John Santos<\/a> in the Zarate Pollace Project (ZPP), a band she co-lead with guitarist Abel Zarate (who also wrote songs for Malo and Willie Bobo).<\/p>\n

“New Beginning”, Michelle’s first solo album, contains 10 songs most of them originals, with 2 notable exceptions; “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “La Comparsa”, the latter from the late Cuban legend Ernesto Leucona and popularized more recently by another late Cuban pianist, Bebo Valdes.<\/p>\n

What I Liked About “New Beginning”<\/h3>\n