Bebo

Jazz | Mar 2007

Reviews

Chauncy Sunderland
Reviewed 2007-04-01
Solo Cuban piano. Classical, stately. Clearly carribean, but also in same mood as solo stride piano....kind of. You're not going to hear a younger person play like this. Compositions are from ~1812-present. Check the liner notes for details. Really clean playing. Deceptively austere, and nicely avoids the pedal. FCC clean.
Picks 1,2,3,4,8,10

**1-1:31) Great start. Turn-of-the-(last)-century parlor/classical feel. Abrupt trite end.
**2-0:58) Mid/fast. Spidery runs up and down the keyboard. Abrupt trite end.
**3-3:03) Slower, lazy triplety feel. Quiet, hymnal ending.
*4-2:29) Snaky mid dance. Light arpeggio ending.
5-4:40) Very slow, sad, maudlin. Jazz voicings. High, soft, plinked chord ending.
6-4:07) Slow lugubrious bass line. Abrupt ending.
7-3:35) Sad, slightly jazzy and accompanies my dinner in a fine 1940's establishment. soft, high, plinky ending.
*8-3:17) Very weepy and romantic. Occasional block hands and runs.
9-5:26) Firm, upbeat. Surprise ending.
*10-1:17) Cheerful. Sounds fun to play.
11-2:37) Broadly rolls along in a "Peanuts" kind of way.
12-3:52) Prominent syncopated bassline, sounds stereotypical. Jazz arpeggio end.
13-3:38) Mid. Very jazzy cadenza to end.
14-3:28) Dramatic and romantic.
15-4:31) Brisk beginning, settles into a moving triplety cuban feel.
16-2:15) Fast, pedaled arpeggios, parlor/Rachmaninoff style. Kinda cheesy Liberace, but who cares.
17-6:54) Blues and jazz inflected. Almost a story. Ends with abrupt slide down the keyboard.

Recent airplay

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Charting

2007-04-08 — 2007-06-10 Jazz
Week EndingAirplays
Jun 10 1
May 6 1
Apr 29 1
Apr 22 3
Apr 15 2

Track listing

1. La Caridad
2. Tu Sonrisa
3. Danza No. 1
4. Danza No. 2
5. La Bayamesa
6. La Bella Cubana
7. Tu
8. La Flor Del Yumuri
9. Tres Lindas Cubanas
10. Al Fin Te Vi
11. Danza Lucumi
12. La Comparsa
13. Echale Sasita
14. Marta
15. Consuelate
16. Oleaje
17. Cuba Linda