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Alex Bellegarde Quartet: Caminando

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Strano connubio, quello tra il freddo Canada e la calda Cuba. Ma il jazz ci ha abituato ad abbinamenti ben più estrosi e del resto la contaminazione è nella natura stessa di questa musica.

Dedicato alla memoria del contrabbasista Kaspar Crumby Bey, meglio noto come Skip Bey, Caminando è un album canadese (o forse sarebbe meglio dire statunitense) nell'impostazione armonica, ibrido nella struttura melodica e cubano in quella ritmica, che esplora le atmosfere più disparate, con risultati altalenanti.

Alcune tracce, quelle meno riconducibili ad espliciti modelli di riferimento, sono molto ben riuscite. Suonano fresche, originali, delicate. Altre, di impronta prettamente jazzistica o smaccatamente caraibica, hanno un che di già sentito che ne sminuisce il valore.

Complessivamente siamo comunque di fronte ad un buon disco, ad un jazz suonato in tutta spontaneità ma non superficiale. Una piccola sforbiciata qua e là alla scaletta, andando ad eliminare i brani meno riusciti ("Gotlip", "A Blues Or Not!", "Driving on a Rainy Night") e sarebbe un ottimo album.

Track Listing

Caminando; Got Lip, Native; Timba Tune; Brown's Groove; A Blues or Not!; Driving on a Rainy Night!: La Vaca; Desert; En Moins de Deux.

Personnel

Alex Bellegarde: bass; Yoel Diaz: piano; Erik Hove: alto saxophone; Yvon Plouffe: drums; Orlando Lavielle: congas

Album information

Title: Caminando | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Justin Time Records


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