EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Late in 2014, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis welcomed a very special guest to their Manhattan stage: nine-time GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter, actor, and activist Rubén Blades. For one very special night-music-directed by the JLCO's bassist and "emerging master in the Latin jazz idiom" (DownBeat) Carlos Henriquez-the worlds of salsa and swing collided. Backed by one of the world's leading big bands, Blades took the audience on a tour through his greatest hits. In their write-up of the show, the New York Times said "Mr. Henriquez's arrangements delivered consistently. Radically beautiful."

REVIEW
Una Noche con Rubén Blades.was recorded live in 2014 with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, in New York City s Rose Theater. Blades performed some of his most treasured hits from over the last four decades, including Pedro Navaja and El Cantante, which also feature on the LP. The lead single, Ban Ban Quere, was first debuted in percussionist Ray Baretto s 1975 album, Barretto; Blades revives this classic song with dizzying arrangements by renowned Orchestra bassist, Carlos Henriquez. Orchestra trumpeter Wynton Marsalis ramps up the song s apex with a blazing solo, ascending higher and higher until the brass emits a resounding shriek. --Rolling Stone

On Una Noche Con Rubén Blades, the Jazz and Lincoln Center Orchestra sparkles, as usual, under the direction of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. In this case, significant credit also goes to the orchestra's bassist, Carlos Henriquez, who helped Blades conceive the album, did the musical arrangements and so expertly lays down the jazz walking-bass musical figure, as well as a deeply infectious Afro-Cuban tumbao. By echoing both jazz masters like Ray Brown and the unheralded Afro-Cuban bassist Bobby Rodriguez, Henriquez is a living example of the compatibility of the two genres. It all comes together flawlessly in the new album, which explores a bit of musical history and features yet another talent from an already-multifaceted musical icon. --NPR Music

Ruben Blades surrounds himself with a robust music ensemble: Jazz at The Lincoln Center Orquestra with Wynton Marsalis who put a new spin on his classics. --Billboard