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Rubalcaba Potter Harland Grenadier: First Meeting

Read "First Meeting" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Un'ora e mezza abbondante di musica bella tirata (diciamo ad ampie campate: sei soli brani tutti superiori ai tredici minuti) colta dal vivo al Dizzy's Club di New York a fine agosto 2022 è quanto ci arriva da questo autentico supergruppo forte di quattro prime donne dell'odierna scena jazzistica americana, situazione che può determinare una catena ininterrotta di scontri al vertice (succede spessissimo), ciò che qui non accade se non del tutto marginalmente, visto che la musica, pur ...

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Album Review

Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier & Eric Harland: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy’s Club

Read "First Meeting: Live at Dizzy’s Club" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Let us not beat around the bush or obfuscate the obvious: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club is as sweet a listen anyone can wish for or expect as simpatico luminaries--pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Eric Harland--take to Dizzy's stage. And command it, but not with a heavy hand or selfish aspirations. A dazzling portent, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club opens all the doors and windows facing Columbus Circle and lets a most ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Gonzalo Rubalcaba with Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland

Read "Gonzalo Rubalcaba with Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland" reviewed by Hobart Taylor


Gonzalo Rubalcaba Live at Dizzy's Club with Chris Potter, saxophonist Josh Johnson performing with both SML and Brandee Younger, Dee Dee Bridgewater with Bill Charlap and classic Bill Evans with Jim Hall. Playlist Dee Dee Bridgewater Bill Charlap “In the Still of the Night" from Elemental (Mack Avenue) 0:00 Mike Clark Mike Zilber “Turnaround (And Around Again)" from Standard Deviations (Sunnyside) 8:32 Host Speaks 15:37 Tessa Souter “ Never Broken (E.S.P.)" from Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie ...

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Album Review

Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab

Read "Collab" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Collab, the duo album from Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Brazilian choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, is a sparkling collaboration between two contemporary masters of rhythm and improvisation. On the wings of a finely calibrated beat and a pliable form, they present 11 selections, adding new harmonic hues to the familiar, stretching, fracturing and reconstituting the given. Their experiences and tastes are wide ranging and divergent, but they meet--seemingly effortlessly--on the Latin jazz corner. Holanda composed the ...

Album Review

Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Borrowed Roses

Read "Borrowed Roses" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Borrowed Roses testimonia la nuova primavera artistica di Gonzalo Rubalcaba, già protagonista di recenti opere di valore. Questo album del pianista cubano costituisce una delle rivisitazioni più eleganti e originali degli standard jazzistici proposte in questo decennio. Da “Lush Life" a “Very Early," l'ispirata eplorazione dell'universo canzone è sostenuta da un'invenzione su due livelli che pur rispettosa dello spirito originale procede parallelamente su piani sovrapposti. Il fine è quello di cristallizzare in un attimo di diafana bellezza la ...

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Album Review

Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Trio D'été: Turning Point

Read "Turning Point" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Ecco un trio di qualità superiore e magistrale souplesse, in grado di regalare profonde emozioni a chi lo ascolta. Aleggia in questo Turning Point un mirabile magistero tecnico, coniugato a un invidiabile interplay nel valorizzare il magniloquente pensiero compositivo di Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Nelle sette tracce di questo album c'è imprevedibilità, fantasia esecutiva, tensione emotiva. All'interno di un fitto interplay scorre senza soluzione di continuità la migliore essenza del jazz, distillata in cinquanta minuti di musica appassionante: trame eleganti, ...

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Borrowed Roses

Read "Borrowed Roses" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


While many men and women approach their sixtieth birthday with visions of retirement, pianist and iconoclast Gonzalo Rubalcaba, with his perceptive ear for folk dance and dense improvisation, moves as far as possible from the idea of retirement and attains another peak of perfection on Borrowed Roses. Unlike his previous head-turning, stylistic solo recordings--the Latin Grammy-winning Solo (Blue Note, 2005) and the spirit cleansing Fe Faith (5Passion, 2019)--Borrowed Roses contemplates popular song and standards. Coming off ...


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