Alex de Grassi & Quique Cruz - Tata Monk
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Artist: Alex de Grassi & Quique CruzEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Tropo Records
Soundtracks:
- Sanchaly
- Alba
- Akamani
- Auscencia
- Perdidas
- Encuentros
- Milonguera
- Tata Monk
Free Music Notes for Tata Monk
Free Music Review: Tasty Bolivian Music With A Jazz Twist!
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow! This unique meeting of Bolivian music using Alex De Grassi's acoustic guitar, and Quique Cruz's Andean flutes and Andean stringed instruments, combined with a lightly swinging jazz piano trio is a thoroughly enjoyable experience. The recording is excellent which makes for a wonderful treat. If you like Bolivian or Peruvian music and jazz then this is the CD for you!
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Most record stores don't have a section labeled "Andean Jazz," but if TataMonk, a wonderful North-meets-South collaboration between guitarist Alex De Grassi and Chilean-born flutist Quinque Cruz, catches on, they may need to make another genre heading. TataMonk sets de Grassi's jazz-inflected acoustic guitar pickings and Cruz's Andean flutes and charangos (Andean stringed instruments) against the delicate jazz trio backdrop of pianist Michael Bluestein, bassist Jon Evans, and drummer Dan Foltz. It's a delicious cross-cultural pollination that successfully mixes traditional Andean melodies and instruments with jazz rhythms and harmonies. Fans of de Grassi's popular Windham Hill solo guitar recordings won't be disappointed, as his distinctive fingerstyle guitar work is happily in the forefront through most of the recording. But TataMonk stands out because of the ingenious and unusual context in which de Grassi places himself. As he explains in the liner notes, the wind instruments played by Cruz are traditionally only heard by themselves, and the juxtaposition of the traditional Andean folk melodies with de Grassi's plucked guitars and the jazz trio backing makes for a beautifully unique sound. On pieces like "Alba," a traditional Ecuadorian melody (here enhanced with odd-metered improvisations), and "Akamani," in which pipe flute melodies meet free-floating jazz swing rhythms, it's clear that de Grassi and Cruz have found a compelling musical blend. --Ezra GaleInternational Music CDs
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