Puerto Rican jazz pianist Edsel Gomez, who performs with multi-Grammy Award jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater among others, was in town. And on a chilly Sunday evening, December 25, Tago Jazz Café was bouncing with groove and feeling.
“The idea was to combine traditional and tribal Filipino music with jazz and Puerto Rican music. Puerto Rico has over 300 years of Spanish heritage just like the Philippines. There are many similarities. And my curiosity was to find common ground and then perform with Filipino instruments. That is how the World Fusion Band came to be.”
“We’ll see what we can do with the music that we came up with that was unfortunately put on hold by the pandemic,” he added. “Unfortunately, I am only here for a few weeks so I really cannot do much with that. But, we must perform.”Gomez’ jazz theory on his second solo album, Cubist Music, about motivic variations where the different musicians perform melodic solos that build into the whole as opposed to aimless noodling that oft characterizes jazz music.
The first set is long, adventurous, and intoxicating with the songs clocking in at about 10-minutes each. The ticklish keys of Gomez are no doubt born from the big band jazz he grew up listening to as well as the Latin rhythms of his heritage, and the influences of samba as he lived in Brazil for 10 years.
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