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Baldo Martinez: Cuarteto Europa
by Mark Sullivan
Spanish bassist/composer Baldo Martínez (founding member of the bands Clunia and Zyklus; worked with trumpeters Kenny Wheeler and Paolo Fresu, pianist Joachim Kuhn and others) leads the aptly named Cuarteto Europa (Quartet Europe) with French violinist Dominique Pifarely (probably best known for his ECM recordings, as a leader and with reedist Louis Sclavis), Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser (who has been associated with players like double bassist Thomas Morgan; drummers Paul Motian, Gerald Cleaver and Pierre Favre; and guitarist Marc Ducret) ...
read moreBaldo Martinez Grupo: Vientos cruzados
by Alberto Bazzurro
Baldo Martinez, cinquantasette anni, galiziano, è da tempo uno dei più interessanti bassisti-leader attivi nel vecchio continente: dirige sempre gruppi con una precisa identità, portandoli spesso e volentieri in sala d'incisione. Questo suo ultimo lavoro, registrato a Madrid nel maggio 2016, non fa che confermare tale assunto. L'ha realizzato un quartetto senza pianoforte, come non di rado amano fare i bassisti (da Henri Texier a Dave Holland, tanto per restare in tema) nel momento in cui sono ...
read moreAgusti Fernandez, Baldo Martinez and Ramon Lopez - Triez (Emarcy, 2010) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Stef No doubt Spain's number one pianist in jazz is Agustí Fernández, whose playing spans the history of music, from classical over traditional jazz to avant-garde. Just to show the pianist's breadth, I confront this very accessible and almost Bill Evanesque album with Trio Local, reviewed below, bringing music totally out of the comfort zone of every listener, yet equally coherent as a trio performance. This album's title is a kind of joke, referring to the word trio," but ...
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