Attending a performance of improvising musicians can be an intensely intimate experience. You're a witness to an unrehearsed conversation, two people exploring their relationship in public. The more ...

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When jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba was in school in Cuba his teachers told him not to listen to jazz or traditional Cuban sounds. Instead European classical music was embraced by the Communist Party ...

It's been ten years since pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba teamed up with Charlie Haden on Nocturne (Universal, 2001). Then a twenty-something Cuban virtuoso, Rubalcaba already had a decade of recordings ...

Paseo, the title of virtuoso Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's first album as a leader in three years, means "walk" or "stroll" in English. And that's what he does throughout the record with his New ...

This is FRESH AIR. When Cuban piano whiz Gonzalo Rubalcaba started working with American jazz greats like drummer Jack DeJohnette or bassist Ron Carter in the 1990s, it took him a little while to ...

At the start of his new solo-piano release, “Borrowed Roses” (Top Stop Music), Gonzalo Rubalcaba takes a straightforward approach to the first dozen notes of Billy Strayhorn’s “Chelsea Bridge.” By the ...

Though this Gonzalo Rubalcaba fellow is an ace jazz pianist originally from Cuba, don’t tag him a “Cuban” or “Afro-Cuban” jazz musician. Although he’s been influenced by his homeland’s traditions, ...

This solo piano album from Gonzalo Rubalcaba finds the artist searching. With themes from Afro-Cuban culture running through his performance, he improvises soulfully and at his own pace. As one of the ...

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