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Gonzalo 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 ...
Continue ReadingGonzalo 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 ...
Continue ReadingGonzalo Rubalcaba & Trio D'été: Turning Point
by Maurizio Zerbo
Ecco un trio di qualità superiore e magistrale souplesse, in grado di regalare profonde emozioni a chi lo ascolta. Aleggia in questo Turning Point un mirabile magistero tecnico, coniugato a un invidiabile interplay nel valorizzare il magniloquente pensiero compositivo di Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Nelle sette tracce di questo album c'è imprevedibilità, fantasia esecutiva, tensione emotiva. All'interno di un fitto interplay scorre senza soluzione di continuità la migliore essenza del jazz, distillata in cinquanta minuti di musica appassionante: trame eleganti, ...
Continue ReadingGonzalo Rubalcaba: Borrowed Roses
by Mike Jurkovic
While many men and women approach their sixtieth birthday with visions of retirement, pianist and iconoclast Gonzalo Rubalcaba, with his perceptive ear for folk dance and dense improvisation, moves as far as possible from the idea of retirement and attains another peak of perfection on Borrowed Roses. Unlike his previous head-turning, stylistic solo recordings--the Latin Grammy-winning Solo (Blue Note, 2005) and the spirit cleansing Fe Faith (5Passion, 2019)--Borrowed Roses contemplates popular song and standards. Coming off ...
Continue ReadingRon Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Skyline
by Jim Worsley
Substantial yet serene, sophisticated yet soothing, Skyline oozes with the earthiness of New York City. Here, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba merged their broad skills into an assemblage of erudite conversations, each package wrapped with beauty and delicate care. Of the many common threads heard in this collection, none could be more precious than time. Yes, of course, the trio had a wealth of rich pockets, but the reference is made to time of another nature. They were ...
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