Album Notes

The kind of Jazz that matters to me is a form of music that loves beauty but also freedom and taking risks... this CD is an adventure aiming in that direction. It features excellent jazz musicians from France (Nicolas Folmer, Mario Canonge) and from Venezuela that live and perform in NYC (Luis Perdomo), Europe (Joel "Pibo" Márquez, Orlando Poleo) and Venezuela (Andrés Briceño, Roberto Koch, Roberto Girón). My idea was to unite all the steps of my career during the last 10 years. There is also an element that unites the tracks in this CD: they have all been written by Venezuelan composers. This will to show what is done around here -both in terms of repertoire and percussive elements as well as regarding composers and musicians- doesn't come from the chauvinistic belief that what we do is better, but from the realization that it swings and has character, and deserves to be recorded and distributed at home and abroad.

The fusion here represented has as one of its main references contemporary acoustic jazz. How to define it? Maybe that isn't what really counts. What has guided me in choosing this repertoire is the joyful desire to play music I find interesting beyond labels and genres.

This CD also wants to be a bridge between musicians and publics far apart, taking from different sources, blending and creating something new, just as jazz itself-with all its multiplicity and cross breeding- usually does.


Pablo Gil