| Salsa Dura | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Jimmy Bosch |
| Cover: | Salsa Dura (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1999 |
| Genre: | Salsa |
| Label: | RykoLatino |
| Producer: | Jimmy Bosch, Aaron Levinson, Mark Bingham |
| Prev Title: | Soneando Trombon |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | El Avión de la Salsa |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
Salsa Dura is an album by the American trombonist Jimmy Bosch, released in 1999.[1] [2] The title translates to "hard salsa", Bosch's descriptor for his music, and the style of salsa that was less popular than the salsa romántica of the 1990s.[3] [4] Bosch also named his band Salsa Dura.[5]
The album was produced by Bosch, Aaron Levinson, and Mark Bingham.[6] Bosch wrote 10 of Salsa Duras 12 tracks.[7] "Speak No Evil" is a cover of the Wayne Shorter song.[8] Steve Turre and Chucho Valdes played on the album. David Sanborn soloed on "Canta Mi Mozambique".[9]
JazzTimes wrote that "it is Bosch’s trombone that brings out the character of the music: hot, yes, but not heavy, worldly and knowing, and ultimately engaging."[8] The Orlando Sentinel thought that "Bosch is a first-rate writer ... he and his group of monster improvisers don't traffic in trite riffs or predictable arrangements." Jazziz deemed the album an "industrial strength variant of urbanized, AfroCuban-rooted dance music."[10]
The Toronto Star noted that "Bosch filters son, plena, conga, descarga and bolero forms through a more muscular framework."[11] The Sun-Sentinel stated that Bosch's "brand of salsa dura—the sound he created by returning salsa to its Afro-Cuban call-and-response roots, employing instrumental solos and improvisation—makes him one of Latin America's most dynamic bandleaders."[12]
AllMusic called the album "a collection of salsa dance tunes, sescargas, boleros, mozambiques, plenas and guajiras with detailed arrangements and energetic playing from Bosch and his band."