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Silvio Rodriguez
Silvio Rodriguez: Segunda Cita
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Jazz fans will be familiar with Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez as the composer of Rabo de Nube," a musical air of impossible loveliness highlighted as the title track of a 2008 album on ECM by Charles Lloyd; there's also an earlier version by Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, on their Dream Keeper (DIW, 1990). Lloyd, in fact, is the dedicatee of Huracán," the jazziest- sounding number on Rodriguez's Segunda Cita, which features a fine saxophone break by José Carlos Acosta.
read moreCuban Singer Silvio Rodriguez Dazzles at the Gibson Amphitheatre
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Michael Ricci
Rodriguez is given multiple encores in a night of sublime music leaning more poetry than politics. Rodriguez set a graceful, warm tone with just a guitar and a few accompanists.
Silvio Rodriguez, the great Cuban singer-songwriter who performed a dazzling set Thursday night at the Gibson Amphitheatre, has the type of lyrical and melodic gifts that transcend ideology, even the bitter Cold War-era rhetoric of U.S.-Cuba relations. His sublime and prolific artistry has endeared Rodriguez to generations throughout Latin America ...
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