Horacio Straijer & Horacio 'Mono' Hurtado
Release Date: 10 July 2013
Label: SLAM Productions
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 786497000159
Genres: Jazz World Music
Description
Duo recording by Argentine musicians, marimba player Horacio Straijer and bassist Mono Hurtado, playing a mixture of standards, original compositions and improvisations, with guests that include baritone saxophonist George Haslam.
Horacio Straijer: marimba, percussion, drums
Mono Hurtado: double bass, keyboards
with guests:
Quique Sinesi: guitar (tracks 1 & 7)
Eduardo Avila: charango (track 8)
Fernando Barragan: sikus, rondadores (track 9)
George Haslam: baritone saxophone (track 11)
"Blending Argentinian folkloric music with a dollop of lilting, Latin jazz, and a dash of Miles and Monk, this is a pleasant release featuring the spare sound of resonant bass and ringing marimba in a set of warm laconic improvisations. The clear, even recording captures each of the players equally in the mix, complementing their collective approach to the music. They deliver credible performances on both the jazz standards and their originals, with Hurtado nailing the pulse of the music while sharing the melodic duties with Straijer's fleet mallet work. The bass player has a dark, full arco tone, featured to good effect on "Pueblo Sin Nombre", a brooding improvisation that spins off from a simple vamp into hovering atmospheric harmonics. The addition of charango, a small Andean double-stringed guitar, on the lilting "Little Hay Road" and panpipes on "Un Salto al Vacio" add textural spice to the music, particularly the latter piece with its staggering, flowing melodies passed between bass, marimba and pipes...The final cut offers an interesting contrast, adding bari player George Haslam for a short collective improvisation. Baritone and bass hint and prod at fragments of folk-like melodies, while Straijer peppers the interplay with shakers and rattles." - Michael Rosenstein, Cadence
Tracklisting
David Bitelli & Ollie Usiskin
Paul Dunmall & Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes & Julie Tippetts
Toni Germani Quartet
Howard Riley, Art Themen, Mario Castronari & Trevor Tomkins
HackOut!
Lol Coxhill
George Haslam & Friends
Da Lata
Amalia Rodrigues
Rebecca Roger Cruz
Levitation Orchestra
Joao do Pife
Rubel
Sun Speak
COIO3 (SOYUZ)
