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Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Discovery - Live at Montreux (1990)

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Album Info

Artist/Composer	Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Title	Discovery - Live at Montreux
Length	54:01	Discs: 1	Tracks: 7
Format	LQ <160 kbps	Packaging	Jewel Case
Label	Blue Note (EMI)	Cat. Number	B2-95478
Style	General Jazz; Latin Jazz	Rating
Recorded	live 1990-07-15 in Montreux Jazz Festival

Musicians

Credits

Gonzalo Rubalcaba	piano
Charlie Haden	bass
Paul Motian	drums

Producer	Charlie Haden
Engineer	Dave Richards

Track list

Well You Needn't

(Monk)

08:48

Velas

(Rubalcaba)

06:12

Prologo Comienzo

(Rubalcaba)

05:13

First Song

(Haden)

09:43

Once Around the Park

(Motian)

05:48

Joao

(Rubalcaba)

06:52

All the Things You Are

(Hammerstein/Kern)

11:25

Notes

AMG Review (5):
One of the most exciting major-label debuts during the 1990s was Gonzalo Rubalcaba's Discovery, a trio date at the 1990 Montreux Jazz Festival with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian. Haden had discovered the young pianist during an appearance in Cuba several years earlier and was surprised at his level of development considering his extremely limited access to hearing jazz greats on record or in person. Rubalcaba's spellbinding take of Thelonious Monk's "Well You Needn't" only begins to hint at his virtuosity; in an up-tempo setting he segues from bop into Latin with flashes of the avant-garde in a breathtaking performance. The young man also contributed the lovely ballad "Velas," the alternately intense and playful piano solo "Prologo Comienzo," as well as a captivating tribute to his young son, "Joao." Both Haden and Motian provide strong support for Rubalcaba, who didn't just rest on the laurels of this highly recommended CD but followed up with several more top-notch CDs for Blue Note during the remainder of the decade. — Ken Dryden