Acoustic Swiftness
Guitarist Javier Guiterrez began pulling together a Latin jazz band in the late-1980s. It crystallised into Acoustic Swiftness, one of New Orleans’ most entertaining club bands. Backed by congas and timbales, Guiterrez cooks up a danceable, upbeat sound that is heavy influenced by his native Bolivia’s Andean folk music, blended with bossa nova, flamenco, traditional jazz and even some classical European music. Acoustic Swiftness has all the variations and surprises of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, using music, instead of words, for their type of magical realism.
