2023-07-20 01:44:10
We said last week that eight concerts always on Wednesday and in two shows, between 8 and 10 pm, comprise the new summer season of the annual cycle ‘Art & Music Km. 0’, organized by the Guggenheim and set up on the terrace of its bar-cafeteria, its bistro. And we repeat that tickets are usually sold out, which happened in the third of the eight events, that of the trio of the pianist from Granada based in Vitoria Joel Ribeiro (the fourth event, on July 26, will be led by the Gipuzkoan saxophonist Eneko Diéguez), who in two hours and one minute, including a 21-minute intermission, reviewed 12 standards, half a dozen per set, and without saying a word to the public, nor hello, neither goodbye, nor thanks, nor is this song called patatín patatán, not even the one about I am accompanied by Ion Torregaray on electric bass, from Pamplona, and Pablo Barrios on drums, from Vitoria.
Luckily, as a person in charge of the Guggenheim told us in the first screening, this cycle accumulates such a faithful public that 80% (sic) of the respectable repeat. In other words, the audience knows what’s going on, they know the format of the sessions, and they guessed about the intermission when the three musicians stopped and made their exit without saying a word. Hum…, now as we write these lines it occurs to us that, by not speaking to the spectators at all, they perceive what is being played as a background entertainment, although even so the people did not start talking to the neighbor (or neighbor…).
The two passes were good, with a deep presence of the bass in the first and more general ease in the second, with the bassist from Pamplona standing then, with the drummer from Vitoria showing off several mini-solos and contributing more punch to the sticks and less finesse to the heads, and with the pianist and leader from Granada looser (“the pacharán has risen”, we heard him comment to someone from his entourage after the intermission in which the musicians s take the opportunity to snack on something).
Pablo Barrios (drums), Ion Torregaray (bass) and Joel Ribeiro (piano). Oscar Cinema
With Ribeiro’s electric piano too timbre, especially in the first set, with the bassist sitting down and with the drummer more timid in that first pass, among the half dozen standards (“it’s what they ask of you in this cycle”, the performers assumed at the end of the meeting, when the undersigned approached them to ask them the titles: “I’ve only recognized ‘Garota de Ipamena'”) fell the bluesy and growing ‘Billie’s bounce’ by Charlie Parker (actually, and as a virtue, let’s point out that the twelve pieces grew, that is, they grew), the top of that set was the vibrant Ryan Gosling-esque in ‘La La Land’ ‘Have you met Miss Jones’ (from the musical ‘I’d Rather Be Right’), ‘The Girl from Ipamena’ was recreated with certain emphaticity, and they took a momentary farewell with the first ballad of the two on the set list, ‘Body and soul’.
The second part, propelled by the pacharán, had more pinch, as has already been said. That half-dozen songs had two peaks: the dynamic, flamenco and Spanish ‘Nardis’ by Miles Davis / Bill Evans, and Kenny Dorham’s ‘Blue bossa’ that started in Latin and ended in the melancholy of ‘Los parambres de Cherbourg’. Also in the second set, the second ballad on Wednesday stood out, ‘Misty’ by Errol Garner (and just at 9:40 p.m. the ambient lights came on), and the trio also said goodbye without saying anything with Charlie Parker’s ‘Anthropology’ tricked out with a calypso rhythm (of course, changing the normal compositions so much that we don’t recognize them) and that, at the end, the performers greeted the audience with the photo pose that caught us surprise and aside.
The Joel Ribeiro Trío also played other standards such as ‘Stella by Starlight’ and ‘Beatrice’. And in the post-concert conversation we recommend that they ignore the instructions of the cycle and play originals because the public appreciates them, and that among the best concerts in this cycle those of Carla Sevilla and the Cumbaos Trio have stood out, where their own songs prevailed. “Sure, much better… Next time,” Ribeiro promised.
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