Artist: Jarmo Hoogendijk, Liber Torriente, Mick Paauwe, Randal Corsen, Jens Kerkhof What you hear on this CD is the total of five different backgrounds, nationalities, characters, creative visions and musical evolutions which Together make up the unique sound of Bye-ya! This is not just a project or pickup group assembled for a recording, this is a band! A band of five musicians lifting each other's playing to a higher level. BYE- YA! is synonymous with a quintet working Together for a common good whilst at the same time having an immense liberty to express and profile themselves individually. The repertoire you hear on this album are all originals by the musicians themselves, composed and arranged to highlight the unique qualities of the bandmembers and at the same creating the incomparable sound of Bye-ya! It's Latin jazz at it's best - more than a mix between these two styles, it is interaction and reaction between Latin music and Jazz. Quotes:
"Need a jolt? Feel like dancing? Or just need assurance the state of Latin jazz is Alive and well? This superb recording should accomplish all of those things in spades ....highly recommended."
by Jim Josselyn,www.AllAboutJazz.com

"....they have a promising road ahead....The music of Bye-ya! strongly gives live to a successful merge of progressive jazz and Latin American tradition. "
Darmstaedter Echo

"...they prove to have a vision of what they see as Latin jazz....Holland has gained a great and promising Latin jazz quintet. This CD is the undeniable evidence of this fact."
by Rob van den Bosch, Oye-Listen

"....because of the effortless mixing of pure Afro-Cuban rhythm with powerful hardbop, with a snuff of fusion, 'Bye-Ya!' is a good accession for the Latin jazz scene."
by Ken Vos, Jazz

"....the audience gets effectively pepped up, just like on the debut CD. A band that masters histhing so well, can stick out their neck without worrying."
by Frans van Leeuwen, NRC-Handelsblad