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Nu-Roots: Nu Tunes & Old Tunes
by Marta Ramon
Nu-Roots multiplies itself with the potent Nu Tunes & Old Tunes. After six years working together, this acclaimed band has launched its third album, one of the most powerful recordings in the current Spanish jazz scene, and one that has definitely established the personality of the band. The record is, in itself, an explosion of the knowledge and control that has accompanied the lives of the three great musicians in this influential group. Nu Roots has focused in ...
read moreXimo Tebar: Eclipse
by Ian Patterson
Spanish jazz guitarist Ximo Tebar is a restless explorer. Over the years he has experimented with the blues and organ/guitar/drum trios with the likes of Lou Bennet, Lonnie Liston Smith, and most notably Joey DeFrancesco, with whom Tebar led the pulsating band The Champs. His excursions into pop (or Mediterranean Son, as Tebar himself has described it) have raised more than a few critical eyebrows, but genres aside, the constant in all of his records is his stylish ...
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