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Alexis Cuadrado: A Bassist in New York
by Franz A. Matzner
Bassist, bandleader, and innovative composer Alexis Cuadrado has made a name for himself over the last decade with a series of ambitious albums that push the envelope of jazz composition. His latest work A Lorca Soundscape (Sunnyside, 2013) may very well represent the most challenging piece yet to emerge from his restive mind. As thought provoking as it is musically stirring, the album puts to music the poetry of Federico García Lorca's seminal collection “A Poet in New York," finding ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
È un grande contrabassista, Alexis Cuadrado, già lo sapevamo. Che sia pure un bravo autore di canzoni è una piacevole sorpresa, anche se avere Garcia Lorca come paroliere non è cosa da poco. Quando tra 1929 e il 1930 l'enfant prodige della poesia iberica trascorse un periodo di studi presso la Columbia University (una sorta di fuga sabbatica dalla propria tormentata vita), la grande crisi flagellava il paese e un animo sensibile come quello del poeta non poteva che impressionare, ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
When times are tough, injustice is in the air, and something needs to be said, jazz always finds a way to do the talking. In times past, it was Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit" at Cafe Society, drummer Max Roach and vocalist Abbey Lincoln pouring their hearts out on We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Candid, 1960), bassist Charles Mingus railing against injustice with soul stirring epics, and bassist Charlie Haden sermonizing with his Liberation Music Orchestra; today, it's ...
read moreAlexis Cuadrado: Noneto Ibérico
by Mark F. Turner
Bassist Alexis Cuadrado imparts his vernacular as a composer in Noneto Ibérico, a nine-movement work commissioned by The Chamber Music America-Doris Duke Foundation's “New Works" program. With a potent nine-piece band that includes Alan Ferber, Avishai Cohen, and others, Cuadrado puts a fresh timestamp on Spanish Flamenco and modern jazz with writing in the vein of contemporary composers such as Guillermo Klein. This crosspollination of idioms has been covered in numerous recordings, yet Cuadrado's insight fleshes out ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Alexis Cuadrado, spagnolo di Barcellona, da qualche anno vive a Brooklin e frequenta da vicino la downtown newyorchese. Puzzles è il suo terzo lavoro e segna un importante passo avanti nell'ambito progettuale dell’artista. L’autoproduzione di questo album ha generato un’etichetta (con altri colleghi), la Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records. Cuadrado afferma di aver effettuato la registrazione in casa per catturare il suono “grezzo” della band, ne sono scaturite sonorità molto vere, ma al tempo stesso un po’ ruvide. Nove composizioni originali ...
read moreTake Five With Alexis Cuadrado
by AAJ Staff
Meet Alexis Cuadrado: Born in 1971 in Barcelona, Spain, and currently based in New York, Alexis is an active member of the New York jazz scene.Since 1993 he has performed in Spain, Europe and the US with some of today's most outstanding groups and soloists such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bruce Barth, Ben Monder, Perico Sambeat, Jordi Rossy, Allan Skidmore, Dennis Rowland, Louis Stewart, Sean Levitt, Peter King and John Stetch to name a few.Alexis graduated in ...
read moreAlexis Cuadrado Sextet: Visual
by Peter Aaron
Barcelona-born bassist Alexis Cuadrado has spent much time on both sides of the pond, as a sideman of Kurt Rosenwinkel and Bruce Barth; a student of Larry Grenadier and Francois Rabbath; and a teacher in New York, his current home. On Visual, his second outing as a leader (after 2001's Metro ), Cuadrado is joined by Kris Bauman (alto saxophone, clarinet), John Ellis (tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, bass clarinet), Steve Cardenas (guitar), and the Ferber twins, Mark and Alan ...
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