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Open Dreams: Suenos Abiertos
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| A sampler providing a tour d’horizon of contemporary Argentine
jazz, Open Dreams begins with a perfect example of how local
rhythms and, more generally, indigenous musical traditions, can be
filtered successfully though the jazz sensibility to produce music that
is at once immediately recognisable as peculiar to its country of
origin and, at the same time, unmistakably jazz-based. Pianist
Alejandro Rodríguez’s ‘Candombe en Tricota’ combines formal grace and
elegance with controlled improvisation in trio music of winsome
subtlety and considerable textural and dynamic variety, and (like, say,
the work of Michel Camilo or Danilo Perez or Hilton Ruiz) is so
naturally infused with both latin and jazz that the result is a wholly
uncontrived, organic blend of the two. While other artists’ music (the
free solo piano of Ruben Ferrero, the trumpet-led lissom fusion of the
Ricardo Nolé Trio and Juan Cruz Urquiza, the wafting saxophone/guitar
sound of the Alejandro Aranda Cuarteto) is less overtly Argentine,
there are also the number of bands using local instruments and rhythms
that might be found anywhere in the jazz world these days, from Norway
to South Africa and all points between. Highlights include the dry,
throaty alto of Sebastián Cavallaro and the intensely rhythmic,
powerfully imaginative solo piano of Roi Maciaz, but the album as a
whole is what really impresses, providing, courtesy of the richness and
variety it contains, proof that jazz is arguably more a state of mind
than an easily defined musical tradition. |
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