Fernando Trueba presents his love affair with Latin jazz, his camera
following 13 giants into the studio. Trueba drapes walls with single colors -
red for Jerry González and the Fort Apache band, white for Tito
Puente; his
camera is close to faces, instruments, hands, and feet; bands' colors
contrast with walls or their leader's clothes. Chucho Valdés does a
pyrotechnic solo then joins his aged father Bebo for a subdued duet. Puntilla
Ríos takes us to Africa, Chano Domínguez to a marriage of
jazz and
Flamenco, and Eliane Elias, her shoe-less foot on the pedal, to gorgeous
and muscular elegance. With Paquito, Cachao, Patato, Chico, Gato, and
Michel Camilo, we travel Calle 54.