Jorge

”Huellas” tastes like Jazz and flamenco winds, it is full of freshness and vitality, and somehow, brings together leading composer with the distilled and concentrated Flamenco essence. An overview of this art seen from the outside to inside and from inside out. A flamenco feeling between the sound of a jazz band. A vision of improvisation with new references. Meeting and dispersion at the same compass. An execution for those who feel, breathe and know these fundamentals, which are none others than the deepest soul where there is no time or place.

Even before he was famous, he was already a legend among piano aficionados. Not until he won a 1985 Gramophone award for a Liszt album did Jorge Bolet, then already 70, graduate from insider tip to household name. Now Sony Classical releases on 10 CDs of all those fabled, yet heretofore only sporadically accessible, recordings that the great Cuban-American pianist made for RCA, CBS and Spain’s Ensayo Records between 1959 and 1983. This first ever complete Sony collection also includes many tracks for the first time on CD, including Bolet’s debut on RCA, a Liszt programme from 1959. Many CDs have been remastered from the original analogue tapes for this release, packaged, as always, with original covers, labels and full discographical notes.

Flamenco lays its stakes on collaboration projects. Saxophonist Jorge Pardo and guitarist Agustin Carbonell ‘El Bola’ have united not just their instruments but also what flamenco and jazz have in common on the album ‘Desvarios’. The recording, assigned by the label RTVE Musica for its collection ‘Jazz en Espaсa’, was done in March 2007 at the studios of Televisiуn Espaсola. Piano, contrabass, violin, percussion, clapping and cante accompany the two soloists.

Ten songs of Paco de Lucia played by Jorge Pardo (sax and flute) and Chano Dominguez (piano) and accompanied by Javier Colina (bass), Tino di Geraldo (drums) and Luis Dulzaides (congas, bongos and chekere).