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IVAN "MELON" LEWIS IN THE PRESTIGIOUS WEB OF JAZZ "ALL ABOUT JAZZ" DIGITAL ENCUNERTO

Crossing
Ivan "Melon" Lewis Quintet The evening, music box, DVD Movement: Notes from Havana Annechu, Trends, Big Kenny, the black too; Sister mine, Miramar Marine Pearl, The late, Music Box, Motion, Closing; Fascinação Personnel : CD: Ivan Melon Lewis: piano; Román Filiú, alto sax (1, 3-5, 7-8); Ariel Bringuez: tenor sax (2-5, 8); Reinier
The Negrón Elizarde: bass ( 1-5, 7-8); Lukmil Pérez: drums (1-5, 7-8)
DVD: Melon Ivan Lewis: piano; Román Filiú, alto sax (1, 3-8, 10-12) ; Ariel Bringuez: tenor sax (2-5, 8, 11-12); Reinier The Kenny Kirkland, who is dedicated the excellent "Big Kenny, "piece of Crossing, Ivan Lewis

Negrón Elizarde: bass (1-8, 10-12); Lukmil Pérez: drums (1-8, 10-12); Buika: vocals (7, 8), Sandra Carrasco : vocals (6, 7), Mariza: voice (13) As

Melon has taken time to present their first album as a leader. Born in Havana, and resident in Madrid since 1998, has long been subordinate class, as well as the ill-fated Brooklyn pianist, whose name is inextricably linked to that of Sting , accompanying artists only tangentially linked to the world of jazz, particularly the phenomenal Concha Buika, whose growing fame has contributed not negligible the effervescent piano Melon. The debut album as leader Ivan Gonzalez Lewis, Melon occurs in the best conditions: under the direction of one of the most restless and prestigious producers in Spain, Javier Limón, supported by four excellent Cuban musicians, including saxophonists include Roman and Ariel Filiú Bringuez, students and Melon himself that hotbed of talent that is the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, and three guests of luxury, plural vocalists Sandra Carrasco, Portuguese Mariza and the aforementioned Buika. Recorded

CATA studies in Madrid in live and public Crossing is, as usual in the products of Casa Limón, very well packaged with an attractive design and accompanied by a DVD which details the thirteen pieces of which consisted of the concert, of which only eight appear on the disc. Cruise wants to be, as stated Melon, a sample of what has been its rich career to date. Actually, the variety of that history is reflected so that Crossing is more than an album of Afro-Cuban music or Latin jazz. In the eight compositions on the CD, seven of them for Melon own pen, and the five additional DVD traditional Cuban rhythms are, of course, but also blues, modern jazz more rigorous post-bop, song English and even the fado. This, it must be noted, does not make a Crossing incoherent mishmash, by contrast, is a disc equipped with high cohesion, which speaks volumes about the rigor of Melon, an artist with style own completely recognizable touch it touches.

compositions in the Latin, "Notes from Havana," "The Black also" or "Movement," Ivan Lewis shows he is in his own right in the first division of pianism exigentísima Afro-Cuban, displaying the effusion, heat and even fireworks that are the hallmarks of this music, but with moderation and restraint and modesty gimmicky. In the pieces in modern jazz wave, such as "Trends" or "Big Kenny," the phenomenal technical solvency of Melon and his companions in the service of endless inventiveness and a swing overflowing. The ballads "Annechu" benefiting from a superb à la only

Ben Webster

of Bringuez, and "Music Box," where some ears may hear echoes of European Quartet Keith Jarrett

( Belonging, ECM 1974), confirm that Melon is a lyrical pianist of the first magnitude. Finally, playing the piano solo of "Evening" should be now in the canon of copies of the classic versions of Sindo Garay. parts in which the quintet will join the guest singers are confined to the DVD and are an attractive bonus also serves to demonstrate the versatility and reliability Melon as a companion. Special attention is "Sister," in which the young singer Sandra Carrasco brings to a climax the Flemish opera, which was the great maestro Manolo Caracol, with feverish support of pianist, Filiú and the rhythm section, who unleashed a storm that reminds you

McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane and company in the Españolísimo trigger number "Olé" ( Olé Coltrane, Impulse, 1961). Cruise is the first volume of the new Black Series Javier Limón, dedicated to jazz and latin-jazz. The is very high bar for subsequent deliveries.

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