Jazz Articles about Beledo

About Beledo

Album Review

Beledo's second MoonJune release flows through the listener's ears like the cinematic adaptation of an epic novel, but in sound. Seriously Deep quite deliberately moves from scene to scene (song to song), building up and releasing tension in music that sounds much too powerful and deep to have been primarily created by only three musicians: Uruguayan multi-instrumentalist Beledo on electric guitar and acoustic piano with drummer Kenny Grohowski and master bassist Tony Levin. Within each song, this movement consists of ...

Album Review

Beledo: Dreamland Mechanism

Read "Dreamland Mechanism" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
July 10, 2016

Hailing from Montevideo, Uruguay but now resident in New York City, prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist Beledo signed to MoonJune Records in 2013. The result of this signing is a stunningly good album sporting some of jazz fusion's most talented exponents including the redoubtable British drummer Gary Husband and in-demand NYC bassist Lincoln Goines. Beledo won his spurs playing guitar, his main instrument, in Uruguay rock and blues supergroup Dias de Blues and other bands including his own outfit The Avengers and ...

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The Avengers: On a Mission

Read "On a Mission" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 10, 2013

Gli Avengers sono in missione. Ma non per conto di Dio, come disse John Belushi nel mitico film Blues Brothers, bensì nel nome della musica jazz-rock degli anni ottanta, un genere che cerca faticosamente di sopravvivere nella buona e nella cattiva sorte. Il gruppo è decisamente di altissimo livello, con Adam Holzman, già alla corte di Miles Davis, alle tastiere e i pluridecorati Lincoln Goines e Kim Plainfield, rispettivamente al basso e alla batteria. In primo piano troviamo il chitarrista ...