Jazz Articles about Silvio Rodriguez

Silvio Rodriguez: Segunda Cita

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 4, 2010

Jazz fans will be familiar with Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez as the composer of “Rabo de Nube," a musical air of impossible loveliness highlighted as the title track of a 2008 album on ECM by Charles Lloyd; there's also an earlier version by Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, on their Dream Keeper (DIW, 1990). Lloyd, in fact, is the dedicatee of “Huracán," the jazziest- sounding number on Rodriguez's Segunda Cita, which features a fine saxophone break by José Carlos Acosta.