The Concert for Garcia Lorca [Live]

Editorial Reviews
From Jazziz
The Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca was a 20th century Renaissance man, whose work also touched on the worlds of music, theater, and politics. Recorded live at the Granada house in which Lorca lived, and using the piano that he himself played, Ben Sidran marks the 100th anniversary of Garcia Lorca's birth with this superb recording.

Something of a Renaissance man himself, Sidran has always intertwined his passion for jazz with many forms, nurturing it not only as a musical tradition, but as an oral and written one as well. Here, Sidran blends his own compositions with the poet's writings, along the way featuring the richly-hued tenor saxophone of Bobby Martinez (who combines the deep glow of John Coltrane's ballad side with the hard grit of David Sanborn). "On Defeating Death" tells Lorca's poignant history, while "On Duende" references the poet's evocation of the "mysterious power that everyone senses, and no one explains."

Undergirding Sidran's incisive piano playing is the quiet intensity of Manuel Calleja on bass and Leo Sidran on drums. Several standards are also woven into the intoxicating mix, with "Lover Man" evoking the cosmopolitan days of Lorca in Manhattan, where he encountered the still-young fervor of American jazz. The quartet also transforms Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" into an anthem of fallen faith, and performs - appropriately, given Lorca's political concerns - a fabulous version of Eddie Harris' "Freedom Jazz Dance."

--- Larry Nai, JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.

The Concert for Garcia Lorca, Music, Ben Sidran, Jazz, Jazz Music, Pop, Smooth Jazz
The Concert for Garcia Lorca
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A document of a VERY good night
 The Concert for Garcia Lorca
Ben Sidran
Manufacturer: Go Jazz Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00003INJ4
Release Date: 2000-03-14

Tracks:

  1. On Defeating Death/Absent Soul
  2. It Ain't Necessarily So
  3. On Duende
  4. Cante Jondo And The Blues
  5. New Gypsy Ballads/Whisper Not/Lover Man
  6. Look Here
  7. Poet In New York/Freedom Jazz Dance
  8. For Margarita Xirgu

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A document of a VERY good night.......2000-11-04

This is an intimate recording of a wonderfully soulful and heartfelt night. Sidran clearly reveres Lorca and wants to share his love with us-- he succeeds admirably. The music is strong and sharply expressed, with big slices of blues and funk flavoring the jazz. The playing is free and loose, and everybody's having a good time here-- you will too. Best enjoyed with a bottle of wine, and the book that accompanies the CD (or is it the CD that comes with the book?) is a little jewel. Well done from start to finish.
Revueltas
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    		Revueltas

    Manufacturer: Urtext Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000B9EY2A
    Release Date: 2005-10-11

    Album Description

    Carlos Miguel Prieto, one of the most dynamic and interesting young conductors in recent years, is music director of Mexico's oldest orchestra, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra. He is also associate conductor of the Houston Symphony and music director of the Huntsville Symphony in Alabama. His 2003 tour with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas began with concerts at the United Nations and the Kennedy Center. Prieto is making a series of recordings of Latin American and Mexican music for Urtext, of which this is a most important installment. Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) began a career as violinist, then conductor, but by the end of his short life had become one of the greatest composers in the history of Mexico. After living abroad for a few years, even becoming a cultural official in Spain, Revueltas returned to Mexico where he died in poverty, an alcoholic. His brilliant orchestral piece Sensemayá is his best-known work, and has become part of the standard repertoire around the world. The other works on this CD show various facets of this composer's particular genius, a distinctive mix of dissonant harmonies with elements of folk music.

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    3. The Essentials [Original recording remastered]
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    5. The Legend [Box set]
    6. The Sammy Kaye Collection
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