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Eugene Ball 4tet, plus favourites from Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Electric Market and Gerald Gradwohl

by Len Davis
December 12, 2021

New music from Eugene Ball with From Down Here, favourites from Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Erik Escobar, and Alexander Machacek.Playlist Eugene Ball 4tet “Constance" from From Down Here (Namboku) 00:00 Gonzalo Rubalcaba"Bottoms Up" from Paseo (Blue Note) 06:36 Erik Escobar “Homage ti Maestro Gonzalo" from Erik Escobar (Self Produced) 13:15 Elektrik Market “A River Flows" from ...

Alex Machacek

Born in 1972, Machacek grew up in Vienna, where he began studying classical guitar at the age of eight and continued for six years. While his early interest in guitar outside the classical field tended toward rock (Queen, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden), he later gravitated toward jazz, with a particular interest in jazz guitar great Joe Pass. “I was pretty much a straight ahead player back then because that was what the people played around me. I learned the Great American songbook and just played as much as I could. When I was 13 or 14, somebody gave me a Joe Pass record and I became the biggest Joe Pass fan in the 14th district of Vienna