Gonzalo Rubalcaba's 'Supernova'

Gonzalo Rubalcaba‘s ‘Supernova’ is a studio album recorded with Carlos Henriguez (b) and Ignacio Berroa (d) and released on July 17, 2001 by Blue Note..

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Track listing : 1.Supernova 1 (Gonzalo Rubalcaba) – 06:26 . 2.El Cadete Constitucional (Jacobo Rubalcaba) – 07:12 . 3.Alma Mía (María Grever) – 06:02 . 4.La Voz del Centro (Gonzalo Rubalcaba) – 06:43 . 5.El Manicero (Moisés Simons) – 08:30 . 6.Supernova 2 (Gonzalo Rubalcaba) – 06:11 . 7.Otra Mirada (Gonzalo Rubalcaba) – 05:43 . 8.The Hard One (Gonzalo Rubalcaba) – 07:05 . 9.Oren (Gonzalo Rubalcaba) – 04:44 .
Musicians : Gonzalo Rubalcaba – piano . Ignacio Berroa – drums . Carlos Henríquez – bass . Luis Quintero – güiro, timbales . Robert Quintero – congas .
Production Produced by Gonzalo Rubalcaba . Jim Anderson – engineer, mixing engineer . Mario Garcia Haya – engineer . Allan Tucker – editing .
Packaging : Gordon H. Jee – creative director . Jana Leon – photography . Howard Mandel – liner notes . Greenberg Kingsley – art direction, design .
Released on July 17, 2001 by Blue Note.

(Source Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Supernova | Supernova | Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Official Site)

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All About Jazz
He utilizes styles from his native land to Africa and Europe in a jazz tradition of varying rhythms and time into a wow-factored trio interplay. […]

PopMatters
Searching for la voz del centro I’m trying to find a way to talk about this album. I didn’t think it would be necessarily difficult, but then I started tryingand now it’s three weeks later and I’m still struggling. Let’s just start with the facts. […]

JazzTimes
Much like Keith Jarrett, Rubalcaba has the ability to lift the traditional into something out of the ordinary, as he does on the superb, stylish contemporary reworking early 1900s danzon “El Cadete Constitucional,” written by his grandfather […]

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