Supernova

Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 17, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B00005LKBX
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,080 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #35 in Music > Indie Music > World Music > Caribbean & Cuba
  • #87 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Brazilian & Latin Jazz

Track Listings

1. Supernova 1

2. The Constitutional Cadet

3. Soul Of Mine

4. The Voice In Between

5. The Peanut Vendor

6. Supernova 2

7. Another View

8. The Hard One (Trio Version)

9. Pray

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making the Complex Seem Simple, July 18, 2001

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Supernova (Audio CD)

A common complaint about contemporary jazz is that, despite its harmonic and rhythmic sophistication, it's often not very listenable. Three recent albums, this one, along with Charlie Haden's Nocture and Michael Brecker's Nearness of You, go a long way toward dispelling that criticism. It's almost as if these artists' albums (and Rubalcaba's handling the piano chair on two out of three of them) are purposely seeking to emotionally connect with listeners without compromising the performers' jazz esthetic.

For the most part, each succeds well, with Rubalcaba's working best, Haden's a close second, and Brecker's a fair bit behind. To my ears, the success of Rubalcaba and Haden comes from their amazing assimilation of the slower and more mellow side of Afro-Cuban music. Rubalcaba seems completely at home in this lush atmosphere; remarkably, he manages to evoke its sensuous textures without sinking into sentimentality.

Surely to be among many top 10 jazz album list at year's end.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, November 4, 2001

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walt (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Supernova (Audio CD)

(...) How bizarre that (educated listeners) can hear this album and be unaware of it's sheer absolute brilliance. Perhaps (they) couldn't hear hear the perfect sense of time, or the inventive harmonies or the sheer originality of every tune(including The peanut vendor) albeit an old standard but never done better than it is here. To sum up, this album is near perfect and to compare it to Gonzalos' previous releases (as some of the other reviewers have done)is to do it a very unfair and unjustified disservice.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe everything you read!, November 20, 2002

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68plexi (mill valley, ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Supernova (Audio CD)

...P>This is an excellent CD by one of the most talented pianists in jazz. Melodic and beautiful but easily complex enough to reward repeated listenings.