popular music: Gonzalo Rubalcaba ...     popular music:       Avatar6 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 2008 a cooker! 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 ...             Paseo2 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 2004 A deceptively simple masterwork Nuance, that's what we've got here. And of the highest order. Take the first cut, for example. It starts out as a rather unadorned, straightforward reading of a Cuban folk classic. Yes, there's an uncommon rhythmic and percussive liveliness--even a little jaunty sauciness--in the leader's initial unaccompanied piano figures, but still not outside the scope of the unexpected. Then, Boom! ...             The Trio1 review Gonzalo Rubalcaba ANG, 2007 imaginative outing that contrasts with other outings i've heard from rubalcaba.. i think the music is excellent, interactive, reflective and top drawer... my only criticism is in the mix where the piano is way out front and the rhythm section is off in the distant background.. it is especially disappointing from the point of view of getting the impression dennis chambers is doing something outside of what he is ...             The Blessing5 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1991 Sublime Surprised is how I felt when I first heard the music. It reminded me of some earlier sounds, strains of Thelonious Monk, Don Pullen and Cecil Taylor, although it diminishes the music to have to compare it to something else, doesn't it. If you don't like it, fine. But if you don't understand something, don't put it down. Any time musicians experiment with melody-rhythm-harmony, the first few ...             Nocturne29 reviews Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba Umvd Labels, 2001 Only a few words to explain. Imagine: you're driving on the highway late at night.There is no traffic and nobody is waiting for you at home. Imagine: Charlie Haden, bass Gonzalo Rubalcaba, piano. This should do it.             Live in Havana2 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Messidor, 2007 this guy is not a musician, he's a magician! when i heard gonzalo rubalcaba at the blue note, i did not believe that there was only one person was playing the piano at that time. i could go on to describe his technical skills and musical creativity but let me just say this: being a serious jazz pianist myself, i am very much into herbie hancock and chick corea, two of the greatest jazz pianists that have ever lived. i am a huge herbie ...             Supernova8 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 2001 brilliant (...) How bizarre that (educated listeners) can hear this album and be unaware of it's sheer absolute brilliance. Perhaps (they) couldn't hear hear the perfect sense of time, or the inventive harmonies or the sheer originality of every tune(including The peanut vendor) albeit an old standard but never done better than it is here. To sum up, this album is near perfect and to compare it to ...             The Montreal Tapes: Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Gonzalo Rubalcaba2 reviews Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, ... Polygram Records, 1998 Charlie Haden-Montreal Tapes with Gonzalo Rubalcaba This recording is a breakthough album. Even for all three seasoned players. Motian and Haden have always had a way of working their magic into other peoples playing, instead of leading or falling off into silence like many drummers and bassists do. On this recording they do all the interplay of any remarkeable trio, but with virtuosity never before accomplished.Gonzalo is also incredible and ...             Discovery: Live at Montreux4 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1991 Awesome Recording This disk explodes out of the gates and does not let up. Gonzolo shows respect for jazz while infusing it with his own Cuban touch. He has a powerful even muscular technique that works very well on these compositions. Some people may complain of too many notes but I really have to disagree. This is exciting music to listen to. He stretches out with some real flurries of notes and has fun with ...             Solo Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 2006 "I felt the necessity to create an album of secrets, letters and notes, and photos. Something like an aural diary," writes Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba in the liner notes of Solo , his first proper solo effort in two decades. Indeed, much of the disc plays like a hushed homage to moods, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, anchored by Rubalcaba richly emotive piano work. The pianist earned much of his acclaim via collaborations with groups and has ...             Gonzalo Rubalcaba Gonzalo Rubalcaba Egrem Music Cuba, 2000             Suite 4 Y 20 Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1993             Rapsodia Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1994             Con El Permiso De Bola6 reviews Francisco Céspedes & Gonzalo Rubalcaba Warner Music Latina, 2007 Cespedes and Rubalcaba interpreting Bola de Nieve Bola de Nieve is the artist name of Ignacio Jacinto Villa (1931-1971). He was a pianist and singer, sort of a cuban Louis Armstrong. He would interpret latin ballads along with other international standards in his own style, mixing jazz and caribbean music in a very sentimental way. This recording brings together Cespedes on vocals and Rubalcaba on piano, to interpret the music of Bola. The ...             Images2 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1992 Jazz at its best! As a composer and arranger of standards (mostly tangos nuevos), I got pleasurable cold shivers and goose pimples as I listened to Autumn Leaves- one of my favorite Jazz standards. Gonzalo Rubalcaba has an incredible capacity in breaking chords and an unbelievably fast brain. This CD is definitely one of my favorite Jazz records. ...and if Rubalcaba ever reads my tiny review: quisiera que sepas ...             Diz2 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 2008 One of the best Cuban takes on western Jazz If you've tested the waters with some of the trios and such with Gonzalo and non-cuban musicians you might have sensed a lack of common ground. This isn't a problem here and it's one of my favorites along with Diz's having givien Gonzalo total license to interpret (out of mutual respect) and Gonzalo's always original ideas about interpretations never seem out of place. If you want to be ahead ...             Antiguo8 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1998 The best I've heard from him, this album takes you places others can't Basically to the person who said this album sucks, you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. This album is amazing. If you like jazz in general and you want to hear something with a real concept, something with an edge to it, something that brings you very far away from home in a good way this is for you. All the other musicians on the album sound amazing. Pretty much the only way ...             Imagine1 review Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1996 THE BEST PIANIST FROM CUBA. He is a incredible pianist,and this is a incredible record,I RECOMEND THIS CD FOR JAZZ' and PIANOS'LOVERS.Javier Socarras.             Inner Voyage10 reviews Gonzalo Rubalcaba Blue Note Records, 1999 5 stars for a thoughtful work This is Rubalcaba's most mature work. It's deeply introspective and lacks the bravura and pyrotechnics of earlier recordings. As a result, it's much more satisfying. Rubalcaba's selections for this CD are also distinct from other Cuban pianists: there is little that is inherently Cuban about them. In this sense, he is not an exponent of Cuban jazz, but of jazz without the usual national labels. ...              search for popular music antiguo, avatar, blessing, bola, charlie, discovery, diz, gonzalo, haden, havana, images, imagine, inner, live, montreal, montreux, motian, nocturne, paseo, paul, permiso, rapsodia, rubalcaba, solo, suite, supernova, tapes, trio, voyage popular music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Stir of Echoes (Special Edition) home  impressum - about us