Habana (album)

Habana
Studio album by
Roy Hargrove's Crisol
Released1997
RecordedJanuary 5 & 6, 1997
StudioTeatro Mancinelli, Orvieto, Italy
Blackburn Audio Engineering, N.Y.
Genre
Length70:26
LabelVerve
314 537 563-2
Producer
  • Roy Hargrove
  • Larry Clothier
Roy Hargrove chronology
Parker's Mood
(1995)
Habana
(1997)
Moment to Moment
(2000)

Habana is an album by Roy Hargrove's Crisol band, recorded on January 5 & 6, 1997, and released the same year by Verve Records.

Crisol a collective including Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés, conguero Miguel "Angá" Díaz, drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and timbalero Jose Luis "Changuito" Quintana, with American musicians Hargrove on trumpet, guitarist Russell Malone, saxophonists Gary Bartz and David Sánchez, trombonist Frank Lacy, and bassist John Benitez. In 1998, the album won Hargrove and the band the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance.