Jazz Articles about Gabriel Vicéns

About Gabriel Vicéns

Album Review

On their often pulse-quickening, wholly improvised double disc, NBT II, the intrepid No Base Trio—alto saxophonist Jonathan Suazo, guitarist Gabriel Vicéns and drummer Leonardo Osuna— draw on their own inner tensions and tenacity for a roiling and immersive exploration of jazz's more open-ended, less categorized, freer regions. Picking up where 2020's cascading debut No Base Trio (Setola di Maiale) left off, NBT instigate and inhabit the shadowlands. Snatches of their native Puerto Rican folk dance roll like cumulus ...

Album Review

Gabriel Vicéns: The Way We Are Created

Read "The Way We Are Created" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
November 11, 2021

Puerto Rican jazz guitarist & composer Gabriel Vicéns has been living in New York City since 2016 but, for this album, he chose to explore traditional Puerto Rican music (Bomba and Plena—music and dance styles born from African slavery and Caribbean influences) blended with his own compositional style. He was also exposed to Cuban Changüí, and began incorporating some stylistic devices from it into his guitar playing. The title tune begins the program with an infectious ostinato pattern ...

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Interview

Gabriel Vicéns: A Growing Voice In Jazz

by R.J. DeLuke
January 26, 2021

Guitarist Gabriel Vicéns from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, has only been on the New York City scene for about five years. But his rich tone and engaging style have gained him a reputation--still growing--as a remarkable voice and an artist with something valid to say. He's not a guitar shredder, though he has plenty of technique. Rather he wins people over with his silky approach and sweet sound. His music--he is a thoughtful composer--brings rhythms from different musical arenas. ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Albums With Great Guitarists

by Bob Osborne
January 21, 2021

On this show we feature fantastic new albums from bands featuring great guitarists. There is also a round-up of some of the end of year releases in 2020, including an amazing live recording by Tim Berne's Science Friction band from 2003, and new music from the ears&eyes label. Playlist Gabriel Vicéns “The Way We Are Created" from The Way We Are Created (Inner Circle Music) 00:00 Derupeto “Vanessa" from Derupeto (Nobelrecords) 10:18 Mach 6 “Si Annida" from Take ...

Album Review

Jonathan Suazo / Gabriel Vicens / Leonardo Osuna: No Base Trio

Read "No Base Trio" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
July 10, 2020

There's an eery sumptuousness to the gravity-free, genre-less sound of No Base Trio that makes it incredibly difficult to get on with the day. The slant and tilt of modular sonic eruptions grab immediate attention. Its cascading, formless ambience affords strange new spaces to inhabit, explore, and contemplate during lockdown. Hailing from Puerto Rico, this debut recording features the imaginative, often volatile union of guitarist Gabriel Vicéns, alto saxophonist Jonathan Suazo and drummer Leonardo Osuna threading the free ...

Album Review

Joan Torres's All Is Fused: Revolution

Read "Revolution" reviewed by Paul Naser

by Paul Naser
April 15, 2020

Amidst the chaos that is the year 2020, Joan Torres's All Is Fused has found the time to release an alt take of the closer from their 2019 album, Revolution (Self Produced). The new version of “Finale" is a collaboration with bass virtuoso Bubby Lewis. Of the collaboration, Torres says: “I wanted someone who was a bit of a kindred spirit in this musical journey but with a considerably different style. The stars then lined up somehow because Bubby Lewis....was ...

Album Review

Joan Torres's All Is Fused: Revolution

by Paul Naser
April 16, 2019

Since the band's last record, Of The Musical (Self Produced, 2016), Joan Torres' All Is Fused has taken time to dig deeper into its influences and expand its sound. This year All Is Fused returns with an evolved vibe that finds it delving deep into fusion and Latin with a slight nod to the avant-garde and Thundercat among other styles. The result is Revolution.The album begins with the on-topic, high intensity “Rebellion." Torres, who serves as the project's ...