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Gonzalo Rubalcaba: A Pianist Happy to Let Others Do the Driving
About a year and a half ago the redoubtable Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba took a new band into the studio. He had broken in his sidemen, a clutch of young New York progressives, with a weeklong run at the Jazz Standard. It was minimal preparation, given the demands of the music involved, and yet it produced ...
Publisher's Top Picks for 2008
by Michael Ricci
It was another productive year for “Team AAJ" as we delivered some new features and upgraded several others across the website. We also beefed up our editorial staff to better manage the increasing number of contributors. The programming staff (Mike Lorenz and myself) continued to build on our foundation that has firmly established AAJ as the ...
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Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Looking in Retrospective; This Is It; Aspiring to Normalcy; Peace; Hip Side; Infantil; Preludio Corto No. 2 for
Piano (Tu Amor Era Falso).
London Jazz Festival 2008
by Frederick Bernas
London Jazz Festival 2008 London, England Nov. 14-23, 2008 Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mark SandersThe VortexNovember 14 In a meticulously unplanned concert, the music often seemed like a sonic battle between these three renowned improvisers. Sporting a black fitted tee and a hairstyle that could be straight from the ...
Richard Galliano: Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions
by Chris May
French-Italian accordionist Richard Galliano began recording for the Milan label in the mid-2000s, since when he's released two tango-based albums, Luz Negra (Milan, 2007) and Live In Marciac (Milan, 2007), made with his Tangaria Quartet. Galliano's Love Day: Los Angeles Session finds him returning to another love, new musette, a jazz-inflected recalibration of the bal-musette cafe ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Avatar
by Luis T. Martinez
Having matured and no longer needing to prove his chops to others or himself, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba has turned his attention to ensembling and orchestration, and in no other work is this more evident than Avatar. Only after multiple listens does it become clear how the compositions are driving the improvisations and not the other way ...
The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums
While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Avatar
by J Hunter
Listening to Avatar--pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's first release since 2006--is kind of like eating unshelled lobster: It takes hard work and a will of iron to get to the meat. And while that meat may be succulent to some, the taste may not be for everybody. The problem originates with the “shell" that surrounds most of the ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Avatar
by Jay Deshpande
Although his sound is as blazing and inspiring as ever, Gonzalo Rubalcaba's new album may mark something of a departure. Recorded at the famed New York studio of the same name, Avatar provides listeners with a unique melting pot of songs and styles, while also implying new freedom and possibility for the renowned Cuban pianist. Only ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Meticulous Jazzman of the World (NY Times)
THE NEW YORK TIMES Sunday, February 17, 2008 METICULOUS JAZZMAN OF THE WORLD By Ben Ratliff The Cuban-born pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, who over the last 15 years or so has become one of the greatest musicians in jazz, is meticulous about music. ...
