Edmundo Ros – Melodías latinoamericanas viejas y nuevas (1966)

Edmundo Ros entered in music as a rhythm man. Was a percussionist in his native Venezuela and played drums in various London nightclubs before being leader. In the recording sessions Edmund himself rehearsed with rhythm and percussion sections of the orchestra and corrected personally what he did not like. To melodic, metal and wood sections Ros required the art of phrasing, which is not for him a matter of notes but of feeling. And the difference is between the false and the real, between the acceptable and the magical.