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Miguel Algarin and Albey Balgochian: Soul To Sol

Read "Soul To Sol" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 3, 2012

A truly remarkable meeting of spoken poetry and improvised double bass playing. Puerto Rican mastermind and poet Miguel Algarin is a prolific and influential literary figure in the United States and Latin America, founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and editor of an important compilation of Nuyorican Poetry. Albey Balgochian is a resourceful and inventive bassist who has collaborated with Cecil Taylor and Dom Minasi. Algarin is a unique storyteller, with a rich, expressive voice. He reads ...

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Miguel Algarin and Albey Balgochian: Soul To Sol

Read "Soul To Sol" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
December 17, 2011

Miguel Algarin is a Puerto Rican poet, founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café and Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University. Albey Balgochian is an improvising bassist who's worked with guitarist Dom Minasi and Cecil Taylor, in the pianist's trio and big band. Together for the first time on Soul To Sol Algarin and Balgochian spark off each other, words and music combining superbly on a series of duets between double bass and human voice. Algarin clearly ...