Results for "Argentina"

Sergio Wagner / Alan Zimmerman: Backstage Sally

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 5, 2013

Those listeners enamored with the classic sound of hard bop modernism that Blue Note propelled in the '50s and early '60s will be well served by Argentinian label Rivorecords whose catalog basks in the swinging sounds of the past, but adds a contemporary touch of urgency. Label boss Justo Lo Prete has found ...

Mariano Loiacono Noneto: Hot House

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 4, 2013

Bigger isn't necessarily better, but there's no denying that the expanded line-up of the nonet is a format that adds new nuances to the Argentinian trumpeter Mariano Loiacono. Loiacono is one of the mainstays on Justo Lo Prete's Rivorecords and has previously released the excellent What's New? (Rivorecords, 2011) and Warm Valley (Rivorecords, ...

Pablo Ablanedo Octet(o): ReContraDoble

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2013

Executed and stylized within the heart of Tango, Pablo Ablanedo's octet features distinguished jazz trumpeter Phil Grenadier and other prominent Boston-based musicians. The Argentinean composer/pianist incisive arrangements, charted with layered horns and contrapuntal theme-building exercises are contoured by breezy choruses, buoyant jazz improv and the inherent festivities often resident within the Latin jazz element. Ablanedo's compositions ...

Rivorecords: Blue Notes from Buenos Aires

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 15, 2013

In the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, a blue note is defined as: “A microtonally lowered third, seventh, or (less commonly) fifth degree of the diatonic scale, common in blues, jazz and related musics." Moving beyond musical theory, the term is most commonly associated with the groundbreaking jazz label Blue Note, founded in 1939 ...

Leonel Kaplan/Christof Kurzmann/Eden Carrasco: Casa Corp

by John Eyles
January 5, 2013

Casa Corp is the second release by the Buenos Aires-based trio of Argentine trumpeter Leonel Kaplan, Chilean alto saxophonist Edén Carrasco, and Austrian vocalist Christof Kurzmann. It follows Una Casa / Observatorio (2011), on Kaplan's own Three Chairs Recordings label. Kaplan and Carrasco were also on the Dromos label's first release in 2009, Moments of Falling ...

Argentina

By Dino Saluzzi

Label: ECM Records
Released: 1991

Argentina

Label: The Jazz Alliance
Released: 1978