Sweet Guitar

Sweet Guitar shines an overdue spotlight on one of Latin music's true guitar virtuosos - Argentine-born, New York-based Francisco Pancho Navarro. Navarro became a first-call Latin guitarist on A-list sessions - everything from the soundtrack of The Mambo Kings to hip-hop and reggae tracks. He is featured on Elliot Goldenthal's Oscar - winning soundtrack for Frida and he accompanied Plácido Domingo in a recording of Die Fledermaus made in 2003 at the Washington Opera. The Rolling Stones used Navarro on a 2006 remake of "I'm Free", and has worked with Victor Jaras, Celia Cruz, and Armando Manzanero.

On this extraordinary recording, Navarro plays with a rhythmic and harmonic flair that few jazz musicians can equal; an elegance born of years of classical study; an arranger's sense of architecture; and a wealth of beauty, feeling and wit. Sweet Guitar is a diary of the music that shaped him, gathered during his lifelong travels through South America.