Albert Bover - A Parisian Affair (2024) [Official Digital Download]

I spend most of my life where I was born, in Barcelona. I learned to play jazz mostly in Barcelona and NY, where I lived for a while, and after I keep visiting often to keep having masterclasses with great classical and jazz teachers, like Sophia Rosoff, Fred Hersch, Barry Harris, Jaki Byard, Sal Mosca and others in this last period of my life.

Jazz for me is urban music, the music of big cities with people coming from many different places, with a big respect to the Afro American community that has always being the most important part of this tradition and style. I do remember feeling that energy in NY that makes me understand WHY we play this music, not just how or what to play. And I do experienced this too, living in Paris, since 2019, that I would dare to say, no disrespect for other important cities and communities too, is the first capital of this music in Europe.

After all this time, having the chance to play a bit in the jazz scene in Paris, I thought it was time to make a trio record with great French jazz players.

I’ve meet in the 90’s Philippe Soirat, still one of the best drummers around in the French jazz scene, playing and recording with Carlos Barreto, a great portuguese bass player. I met the great bass player Yoni Zelnik more recently in a sesión at Philippe’s studio and I enjoyed a lot his musicality and I thought that we three sounded very good together. So we went to the Meudon Studio to record the 19th of January, 2023. At the studio they gave me the option to choose between two grand pianos, a Steinway and a Fazioli. Without even going before to test them, I said that I’ll be playing the Steinway. I still think that Steinway and old Bechstein and Blütner are the best pianos of the XXth century. And I’ve been hearing that sound, the Steinway sound in a lot of records of my favorite players on Blue Note records and also many classic music recordings. That is the sound I like to get.

TRACKLIST

[5:11] 1. Albert Bover - Douce amertume
[4:19] 2. Albert Bover - Sol en Vigo
[5:39] 3. Albert Bover - O Castro
[4:14] 4. Albert Bover - Cyclic Episode
[6:22] 5. Albert Bover - Why Did I Choose You
[5:05] 6. Albert Bover - Blues For Monk
[8:01] 7. Albert Bover - A Nightingale Sang on Berkeley Square
[5:30] 8. Albert Bover - Like Gorka
[4:15] 9. Albert Bover - Pinnocchio
[5:47] 10. Albert Bover - Song for Maia
[4:50] 11. Albert Bover - Wednesday



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