That’s what Pablo Martin Caminero called his quartet, with whom he performed on August 3rd in Madrid’s Bogui Jazz club. He got the offer to play there, but his normal flamenco/jazz band wasn’t available .. so what to do? “I went on lastminute-band.com” he said with a cheeky smile …. which meant he called a few friends, with whom he hadn’t played for a while and never in this set-up before and went with them through the music and the got an stage … and played !!! Pepe Rivero is a great pianist in his own right, who just has released a fantastic double CD ‘Homage to Monk’, and he showed all his amazing skills in some extraordinary soli; trumpet player Enriquito normally plays flamenco and not jazz, but he proved a imaginative force and an interesting improviser and drummer Daniel Garcia held the rhythm and played some exciting soli as well. Pablo called the shots – he opened the evening with a bass solo based on a piece by Bach (which gave away his classical training) and after some standards they started to play his compositions – an exciting mixture of jazz and flamenco, done in the most normal way, as only someone who lives in both worlds can do it. Hi splaying is immaculate and he has a very beautiful sound on the bass, swings, cries like a flamenco guitar sometimes and improvises the most captivating soli …
Pablo has started working on his new album – with his usual group of musicians and hopefully the new record will be done soon, because if it is as good as the previous one ‘El Caminero’ I want to hear it soon ….. To give you an idea of what his music is all about, check out below video, which is a track dedicated to Dave Holland and is from the album mentioned before:
Enjoy !
