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Gustavo Cortinas Snapshot: Esse
by Dan Bilawsky
Gustavo Cortinas' Esse is a place where two passions meet and merge. The drummer's fascination with philosophy served as grist for the compositional mill, inspiring and guiding his hands and mind to create this deep-thinking treatise. It's a fascinating musical realization, exploration, and distillation of the works of Hegel, Aristotle, Descartes, Plato, and other brilliant minds. ...
Global Skepticism
Album: ESSE
By Gustavo Cortiñas
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 7:44
Roy McGrath Quartet: Martha
by James Nadal
In music as well as life, to succeed one must often take chances, jazz is undoubtedly filled with risk takers which were essential in determining this music. The saxophone for Roy McGrath has taken him on a remarkable journey since leaving his home in Puerto Rico to seek his musical passion. It wound through many years ...
Snapshot
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Timing Is Everything; When I Leave You; Chimeras; Skepticism; La Balada de León;
Hanaki; Wish… (Interlude); Wish I Could Be There Now; When I Leave You (Another
Perspective).
Gustavo Cortiñas: Snapshot
by Greg Simmons
By now, it shouldn't surprise anyone that jazz musicians often live itinerant lives. Everyone is from somewhere, but usually it's not here, wherever that is. Early jazz musicians--almost exclusively American--migrated from all over the country to the formative hot spots in Chicago and then, a little latter, New York. Today's musicians make those same migratory journeys ...
Gustavo Cortiñas: Snapshot
by Florence Wetzel
Snapshot is a terrific release by drummer Gustavo Cortiñas, featuring a dynamic combination of musicians who are all associated with the stellar Northwestern University jazz department. The group includes the department's head, the great tenor saxman Victor Goines, who has played with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Ray Charles to Bob Dylan. There's also guitarist Mike ...
Gustavo Cortiñas: Snapshot
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Gustavo Cortinas, who leads a group of admirable musicians on his engaging debut album, Snapshot, was born in Mexico, received his higher education in the States (Loyola University, New Orleans; Northwestern University) and currently resides in Chicago. Besides playing drums, Cortinas wrote and arranged every number on Snapshot, showing impressive proficiency in those areas as ...
Chimeras
Album: Snapshot
By Gustavo Cortiñas
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Duration: 6:28
