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Pablo Ablanedo: Christreza
by Glenn Astarita
This LP clocks in at around 38-minutes and is a bit of a tease since it progresses rather quickly and may leave many listeners wanting more. Here, Argentine-reared pianist/composer/educator Pablo Ablanedo's compositional gifts often take on cinematic film scoring intonations and developments, executed with jazz luminaries who the artist met while attending the Berklee College of Music in 1999. Owing to his heritage, the leader infuses subtle Latin jazz foreground grooves into several movements, whereas the opener “La ...
read moreDiego Urcola Quartet: El Duelo
by Mark Sullivan
The cover of this album shows Diego Urcola (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Paquito D'Rivera (alto saxophone, clarinet) back-to-back, as if about to engage in the titular duel. But the sound is that of two veteran players jointly taking a leap into the unknown. A quartet without piano is an unusual setting for both of them. D'Rivera's liner notes mention Gerry Mulligan's quartet with Chet Baker (represented by “ I Know, Don't Know How"), but Ornette Coleman's quartet is another, more surprising ...
read moreDiego Urcola Quartet: Appreciation
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come lascia facilmente intuire il titolo dell'album, con Appreciation il trombettista Diego Urcola ha voluto rendere omaggio ad una serie di musicisti verso i quali nutre ammirazione e riconoscenza. Grandi del jazz passato e presente (John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, ... ), ma anche dell'universo latino, sudamericano (Hermeto Pascoal, Astor Piazzolla, ...). Senza dimenticare i leader delle formazioni nelle quali ha militato (Paquito D'Rivera e Guillermo Klein). L'elenco è variegato e corposo. Per rendersene conto, è sufficiente scorrere la lista dei ...
read moreDiego Urcola: Musical Ecstasy
by R.J. DeLuke
Jazz music, its freedom and emphasis on self-expression through improvisation, has always had a strong pull on its practitioners, its artists. As fans and listeners, those qualities are also treasured. The infectious nature of those qualities is why jazz fans are passionate and loyal. It's music, born and bred in the United States, that has a fan base that stretches across the globe. In the case of a certain young musician in Buenos Aires, just a few decades ...
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by Charles Walker
Subtlety seldom brings rewards in the life of a journeyman jazz musician. In a field overcrowded with competent colleagues, plagued by spotty media coverage and half-starved by the problems facing the music industry more generally, a gimmick is often required to garner even scant attention. Argentinian-born, New York-based trumpeter Diego Urcola--a long-time member of Paquito D'Rivera's quintet and a stalwart of the late-night NYC scene--avoids the gimmicks on Appreciation, his fourth outing as a leader. Instead, he pushes his Sisyphean ...
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
Trumpeter Diego Urcola's is a voice that has remained somewhat hidden--certainly tucked away--for two decades in Paquito D'Rivera's quintet. And then there is the subdued role he has played in Guillermo Klein's fabulous larger ensemble, Los Guachos. However, the graceful candor of his voice is irrepressible, and it was only a matter of time before he would be heard for what he really is and plays. Urcola is distinct and a singular artist in the manner of his more famous ...
read moreDiego Urcola: Viva
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'album è prodotto dall'italianissima CAM Jazz ed il nome dell'artista, Diego Urcola, rivela chiare origini italiane. Il trombettista è però argentino, e la musica proposta nel CD è tutt'altro che vicina alle atmosfere del jazz di casa nostra. Viva è piuttosto un ottimo esempio di jazz “mainstream” newyorkese. Le virgolette sono d'obbligo, perché accanto agli echi di Wayne Shorter (e di molti altri) che troviamo in Blues For Jimmy, abbiamo Adios Nonino di Astor Piazzolla e, più in generale, influenze ...
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