Alexis Cuadrado - Poetica - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Poetica is a stylistically expansive spoken word project merging text, voice and music in the spirit of Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson. The concept album conceived by poet/vocalist/producer Rachael Sage with Grammy nominated cellist Dave Eggar deftly fuses jazz, classical, NuBeat and Americana. Featuring clarinetist David Krakauer, guitarists Gerry Leonard (David Bowie) & Jack Petruzzelli (Patti Smith), trumpeter Russ Johnson (Elvis Costello), and drummer Quinn.

Poetica - Poetica [COMPACT DISCS] Ltd Ed, Deluxe Ed date 02/18/2022

Intakt Records is thrilled to this first collaboration with pianist Alexis Marcelo - a mesmerizing solo debut! A contagious exuberance of playing, energetic explosive improvisations, and an openness to jazz tradition and experimentation combine on this album to create an impressive musical statement. InchAlmost everything he plays affirms his history and culture as a first-generation American, the son of a Panamanian mother and a Dominican father. Growing up in the Bronx and in Queens during hip hop's first years - the first jazz he heard were samples - hearing salsa and merengue at home, attending Latino evangelical churches, and - yes - studying classical music at the Harlem School of the Arts shaped Marcelo's identification as an African Latino with an inclusive sensibility(...)Once artists establish a strong identity, they can draw outside the lines, smudge them, even erase them, without diluting or diminishing that identity. That is what Alexis Marcelo has done with Solo PianoInch, writes Bill Shoemaker in the liner notes.