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Bob Rodriguez

Born: April 12

Critically acclaimed pianist Bob Rodriguez is one of the most distinctively imaginative musicians in contemporary Jazz today. Possessing a refined virtuoso technique, extraordinary harmonic sensibility and an incomparable approach to his instrument that melds aspects of European classical and Latin music with modern Jazz, Rodriguez's performances and recordings of his own compositions and interpretations of standard material have distinguished him as a truly original pianist with his own tale to tell.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Rodriguez began studying classical piano as a child. At 15, after hearing Teddy Wilson on the radio, he was inspired to write an original blues, revealing a nascent aptitude for composition and prompting his teacher to send him to his first Jazz instructor, Hank Kahout, an expert on Wilson and Art Tatum, who was a stride piano specialist. Next, he studied privately with Bill Gidney, a bebop pianist who had accompanied Charlie Parker. Rodriguez studied harmony formally at the Modern Music School of Cleveland with Phil Rizzo (a former Stan Kenton arranger) and twelve tone composition at Baldwin Wallace University. Later, he attended Akron University, where he spent time analyzing modern classical techniques under the tutelage of Pat Pace, who had written arrangements for Miles Davis.

Nevica

By Jack DeSalvo

Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Here; I Am You; Mayday; Moments Of; Novice; October; One is the Sum of This; Otherwise

Mauricio de Souza: Five Roads

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 29, 2019

If your idea of a great drummer's album is an album full of sonic bombast, do not pick up Five Roads by drummer Maurício de Souza and his ensemble Bossa Brasil. If you love showy drum fills, histrionic drum solos, or volume masquerading as intensity, you'll find none here. Instead, the drummer leads Bossa Brasil down ...

Big Bands, Orchestras and Soft Machines

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 18, 2019

Randy Brecker & NDR Bigband Rocks Piloo Records & Productions LLC 2019 The easiest answer isn't always the best answer, but sometimes it is. So it's both easy and proper to point out that trumpet and flugelhorn master, composer, and bandleader Randy Brecker was kind enough ...

Mauricio de Souza: Trajetórias

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 5, 2018

The quiet masterpiece Trajetórias captures drummer, composer, arranger and bandleader Maurício de Souza leading his jazz ensemble Bossa Brazil in a beautiful live performance through Brazilian pop and jazz classics from the pens of such legends as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Hermeto Pascoal, Milton Nascimento and Pat Metheny. Producer de Souza envelops each live performance ...

Warm Climates, Cool Sounds: Southern Hemispheric Survey

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 3, 2018

Afro-Cuban All Stars Absolutely Live II DM Ahora! Productions 2017 You can find many groups who call themselves “Afro-Cuban All Stars." But few have the pedigree of this ensemble led by vocalist Juan de Marcos, co-architect of the legendary Cuban roots Buena Vista Social Club sessions (1997, Nonesuch/Elektra) ...

Fish Cannot Leave Deap Waters

By Bob Rodriguez

Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Wonjo; Remembering; Envoy's Blessing; To Step; Cross Currents; Drum and Water; Window Traffic; Intro/Waltz; Fish Cannot Leave Deep Waters

Things I Meant To Say

By Bob Rodriguez

Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Back; Sundance; Things I Meant To Say; Cuatro Cosas; The Child; For Tina; Owner's Own

So In Love

By Bob Rodriguez

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: So in Love; Ana Maria; Isfahan; Intrepid Fox; Ida Lupino; Brilliant Corners; Reharming Naima; This is for Albert;

Ripples

By Bob Rodriguez

Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Ripples; Remembering; Peaks and Valleys; All Around Us; Why; Crosscurrents; Why Ask Why