Flight to Freedom
Context
Composed by Danilo Pérez, the track opens the album released on GRP in 1991, produced by Joel Dorn and recorded in New York; Chick Corea plays piano on it. AllMusic sees it as the trumpeter's American debut; he had asked for asylum at the US embassy in Athens during a tour with Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).