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Artist: Gonzalo RubalcabaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Looking In Retrospective
- This Is It
- Aspiring To Normalcy
- Peace
- Hip Side
- Infantil
- Preludio Corto No.2 For Piano (Tu Amor Era Falso)
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Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the very best recent releases I've heard in the past year. I admire everything from Gonzalo, but some of it's hard work for me. This one is fun, in addition to being impressive. It's got the kind of fire that I loved in Hubbard's best playing. It reminds me in places of the kind of post-bop/hard bop/progressive jazz Herbie Hancock was doing on Blue Note in the 60s and more recently on his live album with Hargrove and Brecker. But to me it sounds even better than that. The rhythms are complex, but the beat is very strong, super funky on some tunes. There's less Cuban nostalgia here, more jazz modernism. And it's great to hear Gonzalo with an excellent horn section. The trumpet player reminds me in places of Hargrove, and the alto player reminds me in places of Garrett. But they do not sound like imitators. Not at all. They sound like masters. If anyone were to ask me for an example of the best that jazz has to offer I'd be happy to offer this one.
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