Benavent

Various Artists - Miles Espanol - New Sketches Of Spain (2011) {2CD Set, eOne EOM-CD-2104, Miles Davis related}
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© 2011 eOne Music | EOM-CD-2104
Jazz / Latin / Modern Creative / Fusion / Flamenco

Producer Bob Belden has turned reinventing the music of Miles Davis into a cottage industry, taking Davis to India for 2008’s Miles from India, and more recently Belden has given us Asiento, which re-imagined Bitches Brew as a slice of electronica. Now he gives us Miles Español, which finds Belden pairing veterans of Davis' various bands with musicians from Spain, Morocco, and Latin America on classic tracks from Davis' Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue albums. Hearing Davis compositions with oud, bassoon, accordion, and bongos is certainly exotic and interesting, but one longs for the elegant, stately grace of the original albums.

Paco de Lucia - Solo Quiero Caminar (1981) {2010 Nueva Integral Box Set CD 18 of 27}
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© 1981, 2010 Philips / Universal Music Spain / Polygram Iberica | 00422831000928
Jazz / Flamenco / International Jazz / World Music / Guitar

New version of the Paco de Lucía Integral, 27 CDs his complete work remastered. "Cositas Buenas", his last album, comes as a new in this new Integral. Now in a new economic format. This collection is a unique tour of the work of Paco de Lucia from 1964 to 2004. Five years after Almoraima, three after his experience with Falla, and his recent flirtations with Corea, McLaughlin, Di Meola and Coryell, this revolutionary album appears which, as Paco Sevilla notes in his book, is a declaration of independence. This is the first album with the participation of The Sextet with whom Paco would go on to mark out a new sound for Flamenco music.

Chick Corea & Touchstone - Rhumba Flamenco. Live In Europe (2005) [2CD]
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© 2005 Chick Corea Productions | CCP-001
Jazz / Fusion / Latin / World

Corea's interest in Spanish music was well documented on My Spanish Heart (Polydor, 1976), and he continued to place his own slant on it with Touchstone (Stretch, 1982)—a mixed bag that included two tracks with flamenco guitarist Paco De Lucia and De Lucia's bassist Carles Benavent. Two decades later, while on tour in Europe, Corea found himself reacquainted with Benavent and two other De Lucia alumni—saxophonist/flautist Jorge Pardo and percussionist Rubem Dantas. From this chance meeting emerged a new project, Touchstone, with a European 2004 tour the source for Rhumba Flamenco: Live in Europe.

The writing on this double-disc set represents Corea's most successful marriage of improvisational freedom with longer form composition. Informed by the broader latitude and suite-like nature of classical composition, Corea assimilates writing styles honed on My Spanish Heart and other albums from that era, including Friends (Polydor, 1978) and The Leprechaun (Polydor, 1975)—even the final incarnation of Return to Forever that toured and released Live (Columbia) in 1977. But while those albums had much to recommend, they also leaned towards a sort of bombast that is wholly absent on Rhumba Flamenco.

Fourteenth studio album by the work of Paco de Lucia. He joined in it for the first time a group of five musicians, called Paco de Lucia Sextet, which integrated the elements of an array of jazz to flamenco guitar. Jorge Pardo, Ruben Dantas and Carlos Benavent, in addition to second guitar of his brother Ramon de Algeciras and Pepe de Lucía's voice. Paco de Lucia with his sextet began on this record a new aesthetic that established a definite highlight for all the flamenco coming from that time.

Stephane Galland - LOBI (2012) {OutNote}
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© 2012 OutNote / Outhere Music | OTN019
Jazz / World Fusion / Ethno Jazz / Drums

Unconventional Belgian drummer Stéphane Galland surrounds himself with a dream team of musicians on this eclectic release! Lobi means both yesterday and tomorrow in Lingala, the language of the Congo, and Stéphane Galland uses this concept to drive this multifaceted repertoire, including original compositions and rearranged traditional pieces. Linking the past, present, and future, Lobi showcases the meeting of musicians from different countries and cultures, each bringing their own traditions to the performances. For this adventure, Galland (a member of the Aka Moon Trio), has surrounded himself with a talented, renowned group of musicians.

Riding the momentum of 2016's groundbreaking, critically heralded release, "Pasar Klewer" – an album awarded a 5-star review by Downbeat, All About Jazz, and numerous others – MoonJune Records is proud to present the phenomenal new album by the iconic keyboardist, composer and producer, Dwiki Dharmawan. Drawing from both his extensive jazz influences and his rich cultural heritage, the Indonesian maestro delivers yet another spellbinding masterwork!

Flautist/saxophonist Jorge Pardo is a leading proponent of nuevo flamenco. On his fifth release, he pushes the envelope, presenting jazz standards and pop alongside more traditional compositions. "Caravan" lends itself well to rhythmic interpretations, but the arrangement degenerates midway into a dark-toned muddle. "'Round Midnight" and "Michelle," presented simply with flute and guitar, fare better, coming across as pleasant, "light jazz" renditions. The balance of the compositions are mostly by Pardo, and make his case more persuasively.