WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL 2008
Carmelo Medina Jazz Trio Carmelo Medina, virtuoso guitarist of wide experience, own a own language and always looking for new paths in jazz, we gave a concert with songs from his first album called "Horizons" and their next recording, which goes on sale this year, where jazz, funk , Venezuelan rock and make an appointment to meet and bring their nuances favor of a sound recording of high carat.
This time we witness one of the greatest power trios and dizziness that we heard, with great virtuosity and energy waste product of the talent of three musicians who share a high level of performance, complicity, originality, delivery and energy, who converge on various elements that make a solid block is able to provide the basis for the runaway train of the group.
is a musician Carmelo Medina always surprised by the number of ideas generated through the strings of his guitar, a high technical level and its ability to assimilate the influence of musicians like Frank Gambale, Scott Henderson, John Scofield and Mike Stern, by name a few. On this occasion, the trio was formed by the rapid Rafael Querales on bass and military power of the battery Humberto Casanova, who provided sufficient information to make sound that the trio had the strength necessary and required in this type of event, making jazz is presented without modesty or complex, showing its best side.
The surprising note of the evening was the invitation made to Leonard Carmelo Medina Jacome, a young harpist long career - to be exact, harpist Reynaldo Armas - who accompanied the trio in a couple of issues and looked great in each the solos that he fulfilled.
Carmelo Bravo Jazz Trio and the whole display of talent, virtuosity and originality that they gave us. Repeat.