Pablo Bobrowicky - South Of The World

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:35
Size: 166.2 MB
Styles: Mainstream jazz
Year: 1997/2010
Art: Front

[ 4:26] 1. Straight, No Chaser
[ 4:33] 2. De Buenos Aires A Rio
[ 4:31] 3. Escape
[ 6:53] 4. Algunos Cambios
[ 4:00] 5. Casinha Pequenina
[11:32] 6. Tierra, Aire Y Fuego
[ 3:28] 7. Maxi Cuore
[ 3:50] 8. Well, You Needn't
[ 2:12] 9. Anike'
[ 4:12] 10. Casi Sergo
[ 1:28] 11. Blues Para Adamo
[12:11] 12. Imageno Salgueiro
[ 3:37] 13. Luli
[ 5:36] 14. Max...Who

You might call this Argentinean, by way of New York and Italy. Pablo Bobrowicky, a supple-toned guitarist, surrounds himself with a quartet of fellow countryman on most tracks, with saxophonists Bobby Watson and a few others substituted on some. The guitarist picks his ax like a horn, which is particularly effective on the two pieces by Thelonious Monk. Bobrowicky had a hand in writing most of the tunes, which display a decidedly Latin rhythm. The few tracks with vocals might remind the listener a tad of Joao Gilberto, but there is a little bit more adventurousness to occasionally be found. The material sometimes lags, making it difficult for much of it to rise above the ordinary. Bobby Watson's talents are largely wasted on the three tunes in which he participates. Bobrowicky possesses a clear tuneful tone that works better elsewhere. As it is, there is a pleasant quality to much of his playing and even a moment or two that rises to the occasion. ~Steve Loewy

South Of The World

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Pablo Bobrowicky - Where We Are

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:33
Size: 152,6 MB
Art: Front

( 4:40)  1. Angelica
( 2:36)  2. One For Charlie
( 3:50)  3. Evidence
( 3:18)  4. Au Privave
( 3:46)  5. Body And Soul
( 3:31)  6. Simple Blues
( 6:05)  7. Come Sunday
( 4:59)  8. Invitation
(10:50)  9. Lonnie's Lament
( 6:03) 10. One For Wes
( 5:51) 11. Rio De La Plata
( 4:42) 12. Prelude To A Kiss
( 2:13) 13. Wee
( 4:03) 14. I Fall In Love Too Easily

Writing about jazz is made more difficult when you are presented with a nearly perfect recording. What can you say about Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue or John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme ? Because the recording is itself complete, words fail. I go to a tried and true method (with close friends only, please), buy the record, if you hate it, I’ll give you your money back. Although my words have, the refund policy has never faltered. I’m tempted to offer refunds for dissatisfied listeners of Pablo Bobrowicky’s jazz standards recording. The 30-something Argentinean guitarist recording for an Italian label doesn’t give us Latin versions of Monk, Duke, and Dizzy as much as he delivers a long distance perspective on the second half of the 20th century. The trio of guitar/bass/drums covers ten standards, all attributed to the jazz giants: Coltrane, Ellington, Miles, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Gillespie, plus four originals. Bobrowicky begins with Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, and Jim Hall for inspiration. Crafting music in their styles. 

He draws his swing from Christian, deep grooves from Montgomery, and like Hall is more comfortable on ballads and slow tunes. When he plays a blues, I hear Tal Farlow’s spirit. He is breathing American jazz, pumping it through his large Argentinean heart, and returning it not in translation but in panorama. Where is jazz coming from this century? Bobrowicky states a solid case for offshore inspiration, far away from New York’s incestuous scene. The distance afforded to European and South American jazz artists allows for perspective, serious woodshedding, and unfettered development of ideas. If words failed here, it’s only because this is such a great effort. ~ Mark Corroto http://www.allaboutjazz.com/where-we-are-pablo-bobrowicky-red-records-review-by-mark-corroto.php#.U9UsZCgVHfM

Personnel: Pablo Bobrowicky (Guitar)

Where We Are

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Pablo Bobrowicky - Southern Blue

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:21
Size: 133.6 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[5:05] 1. Sos Vos
[4:25] 2. Barbados
[5:13] 3. Luiza
[3:29] 4. La Anera
[4:11] 5. Cotton Tail
[2:42] 6. Rythm A Ning
[8:41] 7. Idle Moments
[3:35] 8. I'm Beginning To See The Light
[6:34] 9. Eclipse De Luna
[4:09] 10. La Reparada
[5:50] 11. C Jam Blues
[4:22] 12. Delilah

Argentinian guitarist Pablo Bobrowicky has a beautifully unadorned and organic tone, as naked as an electrified guitar can be. He makes it a point not to hide behind reverb, sustain, or overdrive, producing a plectrum sound halfway between electric and acoustic. On Southern Blue, his fourth Red Records recording as a leader, Bobrowicky returns to the trio format he so successfully led on 2001's Where We Are (Red Records), spinning out an excellent collection of standards and originals, rendered like a fine, aged wine.

Bobrowicky's opening tune is an original, "Sos Vos?," based on the harmonic structure of the jazz warhorse "All The Things You Are." In the greatest of jazz traditions, the guitarist transforms the original standard by expertly tinkering with the tempo, time and chords. In doing so, he creates something new altogether: an elegant and swinging tribute to the original. More than with a piano trio, the guitar trio lays plain the "space" in music with which Miles Davis was always so obsessed. Bobrowicky sharpens this with clean phrasing devoid of Joe Pass cum Art Tatum 64th- note ejaculations that, while impressive, can clutter a good melody. In this case, less is more. This music is as clean as a whistle, smelling of pine. ~C. Michael Bailey

Pablo Bobrowicky: guitar; Ben Street: bass; Pepi Taveira: drums.

Southern Blue

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