Jazz Articles about Kimson Plaut

Kimson Plaut: Ubatuba

by Javier AQ Ortiz
July 20, 2002

With just enough crackling, in-the-pocket nutritious melodies and chords, fortified with Brazilian —New York tinged—, under and over currents, Kimson Plaut’s work could have become a type of jazzy Special K had he not drowned in Puerto Rico while enjoying one of his favorites activities on November 17, 2001. Plaut's parents had retired to that island in the Caribbean and he was fond of going for a swim to a local beach that inspired the tune “Luquillo" included in this ...