Jazz Articles about Gabriel Guerrero

About Gabriel Guerrero

Album Review

Gabriel Guerrero & Quantum: Equilibrio

Read "Equilibrio" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 2, 2024

Colombian-born, New York City-based pianist/composer Gabriel Guerrero plays and writes quite well, and is effectively supported by an able-bodied trio on Equilibrio--even though drummer Felix Lecaros sometimes overplays his hand. Guerrero's themes--he wrote every one of the album's eleven numbers--are by and large slow-to medium-tempo pleasant, which suits the ensemble well but runs the risk of trying a listener's patience. The lone variations take place on Track 9, “Permanent Divsersion Part II," with the use of Fung ...

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Album Review

Gabriel Guerrero: Feyas

by James Nadal
March 18, 2012

The mere mention of bop piano icon Bud Powell as an inspiration and major influence should be a justifiable motivation to pay attention to Gabriel Guerrero. The energetic pianist's Feyas displays a recognized reverence to Powell while also exhibiting self-assurance, technical expedience, and compositional proficiency. Guerrero draws deep from the jazz piano idiom as well as his Latin and classical backgrounds. He comes out blazing right from the launching track with “Colombia Tierra Querida," followed by a ...