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Gabriel Vicéns: Days

Read "Days" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Young Puerto Rican-born guitarist Gabriel Vicens unveils his second album as leader with the audacious Days documenting a nine-piece program of infectious modern jazz with a touch of the Latin flavor to make it interesting and quite appealing. A graduate from the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico, the twenty-seven-year old musician is currently professor at ...

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Gabriel Vicéns: Days

Read "Days" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


A rising jazz guitarist who graduated from Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico and currently serves as a Professor at Universidad Interamericana in San Juan, Gabriel Vicens's sophomore release Days exuberantly articulates the soundtrack of his life. This follow up to his 2012 self-produced Point in Time shows personal growth and expression with its contagious hooks ...

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Joan Torres's All Is Fused: The Beginning

Read "The Beginning" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Joan Torres's All Is Fused lives up to its name, delivering music that's a melting pot of styles and sonic strains. Torres--a Dominican Republic-born, Puerto Rico-based bassist with a fondness for modern jazz, rock, fusion, and Latin strains--pens electric and occasionally episodic narratives that burn, bemuse, and burrow their way into the mind. ...

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Vital

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Change; Unidad; The Story of a Fading Love; Tat Tvam Asi; Una Vida Entera; Found; Muy Tarde Ya me Enamorastes; Fue solo un sueño; Buen Camino.

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Jonathan Suazo: Vital

Read "Vital" reviewed by James Nadal


There is strong indication of a renaissance movement in jazz curriculum coming out of the major music schools in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It has been steadily growing over the last few years and appears to be on an upswing. As evidence of this, Vital, the self-produced release by alto saxophonist Jonathan Suazo,an honored alumni himself, ...

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News: Recording

Second Album By Joan Torres's All Is Fused

Second Album By Joan Torres's All Is Fused

After a successful crowdfunding campaign through Indiegogo. The powerful ensemble from Puerto Rico, Joan Torres's All is Fused, release their second album, The Beginning Bassist and educator Joan Torres does not believe in rushing things. He called his first CD “Before” and this one, actually his second, “The Beginning”. “One of my goals is to find ...

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The World In My View (feat. David Sánchez)

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Duration: 8:23

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Extracts of a Desire

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Pace of Life; Forgive Me; Un futuro inevitable; What Is This Thing Called Love?; La ira de una flor (Nacer, Furia, Reposo y regreso); Lucharemos juntos; The Joy Of You.

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Jonathan Suazo: Extracts of a Desire

Read "Extracts of a Desire" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


When it comes to currently-practicing Puerto Rican jazz icons, bassist Eddie Gomez and saxophonists Miguel Zenon and David Sánchez are the holy trinity. Each one of those men carved out their own respective path(s) through jazz country while retaining the essence of their homeland in their sound. For a young musician following in their footsteps to ...

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Jonathan Suazo: Extracts of a Desire

Read "Extracts of a Desire" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Albums by bassist Joan Torres ( Before, self-produced, 2012)) and guitarist Gabriel Vicens (Point in Time, self-produced, 2012) give every indication of a burgeoning jazz renaissance in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Marked by technical proficiency, these players have matter-of-factly eschewed New York and set about to build a scene in San Juan.Among the most ...


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