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Carlos Henriquez: Monk Con Clave
by Pierre Giroux
Carlos Henriquez has long understood that rhythm tells stories long before words arrive. On Monk Con Clave, he takes Thelonious Monk's angular brilliance and brings it back to the streets, dance halls, and other crowded spaces across New York's Afro-Caribbean neighbourhoods. The result is not merely a tribute album but a living dialogue between Monk's genius and Henriquez's Nuyorican identity. Leading his self-named big band, Henriquez has assembled a remarkable multigenerational ensemble featuring musicians from the Jazz at ...
Continue ReadingGonzalo Rubalcaba, Julie Campiche, Melissa Aldana, Roberto Fonseca, Vincent Segal & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Moving fluidly from New York's new generation to Europe's creative hubs and onward to Havana and beyond, this playlist underscores the music's global dialogue, its openness to diverse traditions, and a shared spirit of curiosity that connects bold experimentation, reflective balladry, and socially aware themes within today's evolving jazz landscape. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Caelan Cardello “John Neely" Chapter One (Jazz Bird) 0:16 Host ...
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Rubalcaba Potter Harland Grenadier: First Meeting
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 ...
Continue ReadingGonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier & Eric Harland: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy’s Club
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 ...
Continue ReadingGonzalo Rubalcaba with Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland
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 ...
Continue ReadingHamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Collab
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 ...
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Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Borrowed Roses
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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