Horacio Fumero & Albert Bover - Caminhos Cruzados

Styles: Post Bop, Piano Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:28
Size: 129,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:40)  1. Chimango
(4:43)  2. Fall
(5:09)  3. Monk's dream
(8:10)  4. El corazón al sur
(5:43)  5. Raynald's doubt
(8:19)  6. Virgo
(6:49)  7. The meaning of the blues
(6:43)  8. Caminhos cruzados
(7:08)  9. Carancho

Born in Cañada Rosquín, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1949, he studied at the Manuel De Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires and at the Conservatoire Superieur de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1973 he traveled to Europe with Gato Barbieri to participate in the Montreux Jazz Festival and make several tours of the main European Jazz Festivals (Warsaw, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, Madrid, Zagreb, Copenhagen). Residing in Geneva, he continued his studies and collaborated with La Orquestre a 'Cordes de Lausanne and with various jazz groups in Switzerland. In 1980 he settled in Barcelona. Since 1981 he was part of the stable trio of Tete Montoliu with whom he worked continuously until his death in 1997. With the trio, or as a freelance also, he worked with, among others, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Horace Parlan, Danilo Perez, Joe Newman, Harry "sweets" Edison, Philip Catherine, Geoge Cables, Idris Muhammad, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Sal Nistico, Jerome Richardson, Oliver Jones, Woody Shaw, Benny Golson, James Moody, etc. He has performed as a soloist with the Orquestra de Cambra of the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona, the Symphony Orchestra of Granada, the ONE (National Orchestra of Spain), the Chamber Orchestra "Andrés Segovia" of Madrid; also with Lalo Schiffrin and the OCB (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra). In the field of Flamenco he has worked with artists such as Chano Dominguez, Martirio, Chicuelo, Mayte Martin, Ginesa Ortega, with Miguel Poveda he recorded the CD "Coplas del querer", awarded as Best Spanish Song Album at the Music Awards 2010 and with the newly released DÚO with Pedro Javier González (guitar). He works regularly with the majority of soloists living in our country: Lluis Vidal, Albert Bover, David Xirgu, Gorka Benitez, Jorge Pardo, Jose Reinoso, Antonio Serrano, Manel Camp, Jordi Bonell, Raynald Colom, etc.  While with musicians from Argentina he usually collaborates with Rodolfo Mederos, Pablo Mainetti, Adrián Iaies, Susana Rinaldi, Horacio Ferrer, Luis Salinas, Liliana Herrero, etc. Since 1999 he has been called by the SGAE to act in the editions of the Concierto Homage to Tete Montoliu. He has received different recognitions such as the prizes for his professional career in the newspaper El Mundo (Madrid), La Bilbaína, Rojales (Murcia) and MiraJazz (Miranda de Ebro); Jazz between friends (TVE) 1989; Enderroc Magazine (Barcelona) Best Jazz Artist 2006; Grammy nomination with Adrián Iaies, Association of Jazz Music of Catalonia and the JazzTerrasMan 2013 of Terrassa. Horacio Fumero lives in Barcelona, is a professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) and the Superior Conservatory of the Liceu de BCN. http://horaciofumero.com/web/?page_id=8

Personnel:  Albert Bover (piano), Horacio Fumero (bass)

Caminhos cruzados

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Albert Bover & Horacio Fumero - Duo

Styles: Piano Jazz, Bop
Year: 1995
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 61:43
Size: 113,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Au Privave
(7:45)  2. Infant Eyes
(8:00)  3. Alone Together
(5:08)  4. Inception
(7:31)  5. You Go To My Head
(7:16)  6. Bluebird
(8:38)  7. Darn That Dream
(7:39)  8. You Don't Know What Love Is
(4:51)  9. Anthropology

Pianist Albert Bover and bassist Horacio Fumero are technicians of the sacred. They boldly go where usually only quartets have gone before in search of that missing something in a classic jazz composition. They are both graduates of musical conservatories and it shows. Their technical proficiency on this program is almost without compare. But that is also this disc's greatest problem. To this reviewer's knowledge Charlie Parker never intended "Au Privae" to be an exercise in scalar modularity as opposed to a slamming bebop tune that used scales as a way to go somewhere else, and Wayne Shorter would be aghast at the stilted chromaticism in the middle section of his "Infant Eyes." While it's tempting to be swept away by the duo's musicianship on the faster numbers, such as McCoy Tyner's "Inception" and Bird's "Bluebird," there is a false sense of emotional understanding that all that speed and dexterity attempts to cover. And on the ballads, such as Shorter's, "Darn That Dream," or "You Don't Know What Love Is," with everything the pair tries to add with their muscle, their notion of lyric sensibility gets lost or perhaps isn't present because it was never found is more like it. Whatever the reason, this sounds like a record made by a couple of super-choppers, and the thrill of their attack wears off very quickly. ~ Thom Jurek https://www.allmusic.com/album/duo-mw0000536691

Personnel:  Albert Bover (piano), Horacio Fumero (bass)

Duo

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