
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland <br/>"FIRST MEETING Live at Dizzy's Club"
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland CD 'FIRST MEETING Live at Dizzy's Club', with masters of jazz quartet: Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier and Eric Harland. Billed as “First Meeting,” the band convened for a brief rehearsal on August 21 to reach consensus on the repertoire, which comprises an original piece by each member, along with “500 Miles High” by Chick Corea and “Con Alma” by Dizzy Gillespie, the venue’s patron saint, who recorded the song in duo with Rubalcaba in Havana in 1985. Ted Panken A piece from each of the four greats, plus one by Dizzy Gillespie, who discovered the then 22-year-old Rubalcaba in Cuba in 1985, together with Chick Corea's "500 Miles High," and the quality of this quartet, result in music that is hard to surpass in intensity, improvisational inventiveness, freshness, and interaction... Steff Rohrbach - Swiss Jazz Magazine Jazz N More Pour les amateurs de jazz, cet album n’est pas un simple disque. C’e