Gonzalo Rubalcaba Discovery

Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Tokyo Adagio (2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Tokyo Adagio (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 51:49 minutes | 789 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The second posthumously released duo album featuring Charlie Haden. The first last year was with Jim Hall recorded in Montreal in 1990. This latest one, poetically titled as "Tokyo Adagio", is more recent, Haden duetting with the Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and draws from a March 2005 Blue Note Tokyo club four-night residency. The polite audience reaction and applause is respectful and the sound of a few knives and forks neither here nor there in the background not distracting: the album feels lived in, which is far better than clinical.
Charlie Haden / Paul Motian / Gonzalo Rubalcaba - The Montreal Tapes (1989) {PolyGram}

Charlie Haden / Paul Motian / Gonzalo Rubalcaba - The Montreal Tapes (1989) {PolyGram}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC Image level 8 | Cue+Log | Full Scans 300dpi | 333MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 164MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Straight-Ahead Jazz, Post-Bop

In volume four of the Charlie Haden concerts at the 1989 Montreal Festival, Montreal Tapes with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Paul Motian returns as the drummer, but this time, the piano chair is occupied by the then-little-known Haden discovery, Cuban Gonzalo Rubalcaba, who proceeds to dazzle the audience with his mind-boggling speed. Rubalcaba's irresistible momentum drives this session whenever he solos; all the others can do is hang onto the whirlwind. The music-making in general, though, is more tied to the mainstream than that of the companion Montreal trio album with Geri Allen, and this group doesn't have quite the same internal compatibility as that of the Allen trio.