[TR24][OF] Roberto Fonseca (feat. Ibrahim Maalouf, Joe Lovano, Danay Suarez, Mercedes Cortes, Gema 4) - Yesun - 2019 (afro-cuban, piano jazz, world fusion, rap, funk, post-bop)

Источник: арт-дайджест «Солонеба»
Роберто Фонсека – один из ведущих пианистов кубинской джазовой сцены. Влияние Фонсеки на современный кубинский джаз и джаз в целом неоспоримо, но его творческие горизонты не ограничиваются тонкостями только этого жанра. Богатая музыкальная палитра Фонсеки полна контрастов. Последнее время он развивает концепцию, объединяющую электронную и аналоговую музыку в сочетании с африканской и кубинской стилистикой. Фонсека покоряет публику не только сильнейшей харизмой и сумасшедшей энергией, но и виртуозной техникой исполнения. Он успел заявить о себе еще в составе легендарного коллектива Buena Vista Social Club с Ибрагимом Феррером и Омарой Портуондо, с которой в 2014-2015 годах с триумфом облетел полпланеты. Стиль Фонсеки уходит корнями в традиции латиноамериканской и кубинской музыки.
Как и большинство кубинских исполнителей, Роберто занимался музыкой с раннего детства. Он родился и вырос в музыкальной семье: отец – барабанщик, мать – профессиональная певица (ее вокал можно услышать на нескольких альбомах сына), братья Эмилио Вальдес и Хесус Вальдес-мл. – перкуссионист и пианист соответственно. Поначалу, как и отец Роберто осваивал ударные, но в возрасте восьми лет он пересел за фортепиано. Несмотря на то, что главной страстью юного музыканта были клавишные, свою первую работу он получил в качестве ударника в группе, создающей кавер-версии хитов группы Битлз.
В возрасте 14 лет Роберто начал писать собственную музыку, черпая вдохновение в афро-кубинских корнях. Его появление как пианиста в возрасте 15 лет произвело фурор на престижном международном джазовом фестивале Jazz Plaza в Гаване. Свой успех Роберто захотел подкрепить хорошим образованием и получил степень по классу музыкальной композиции в известном кубинском ВУЗе Instituto Superior de Arte. А в 1996 году Роберто решил расширить рамки своего творчества и опробовать свои силы в других музыкальных стилях. Ради этого он совершил тур по Италии в компании итальянского исполнителя Августо Энрикеса. В рамках тура состоялся концерт на национальном итальянском канале RAI. Далее в течение нескольких лет музыкант работал над созданием своего дебютного альбома и в 1999 году выпустил пластинку Tiene Que Ver, благодаря которой стал лауреатом национальной музыкальной премии. Сегодня на счету Роберто Фонсеки 9 сольных альбомов, один из которых Yo (2012) был номинирован на премию «Грэмми» как лучший альбом латинского джаза.
http://soloneba.com/roberto-fonseca-fatoumata-diawara-transatlantic-meeting/

Roberto Fonseca (born 1975, Havana) is a Cuban jazz pianist. From an early age, Fonseca was surrounded by music: his father was a drummer, his mother, Mercedes Cortes Alfaro, a professional singer (she sings on her son's most recent solo album, Zamazu), and his two older half-brothers, Emilio Valdés (drums) and Jesús "Chuchito" Valdés Jr. (piano), are also two young musicians of great international prestige.
After an early interest in drums, Fonseca switched to piano at the age of 8, and by 14 was experimenting with fusing American jazz and traditional Cuban rhythms; he appeared at Havana's Jazz Plaza Festival in 1991 when he was just 15.
Fonseca studied at Cuba's prestigious Instituto Superior de Arte, where he obtained a master's degree in composition, even though he often says that he was a really bad student. After earning his degree, he left Cuba to find his sound.
His first album, En El Comienzo, which he recorded with Javier Zalba and the group Temperamento, was awarded Cuba's Best Jazz Album in 1999. This success encouraged him to work on two solo records: Tiene Que Ver and Elengo, combining Latin jazz, drum and bass, hip-hop, urban music and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
In 2001, Fonseca went to Japan to record No Limit: Afro Cuban Jazz. He also toured with the Buena Vista Social Club the same year and has worked with Rubén González, Ibrahim Ferrer, Cachaito, Guajiro Mirabal and Manuel Galbán.
A Buena Vista Social Club tour spanned the world, with over 400 concerts, promoting Ibrahim Ferrer's records next to great legends such as Cachaíto López, Manuel Guajiro Mirabal and Manuel Galbán, among others, and playing at the most prestigious venues, such as the Frankfurt Alte Oper, Palais des Congrès (Paris), Albert Hall (London), Beacon Theatre (New York), and the Sydney Opera House (Australia). Not a single review of Ibrahim's concerts, from South America to Asia, would fail to mention Fonseca's talent and his magnetic stage presence.
That period of intense work, touring round the world, led Fonseca to realise that his music was ready for creating his own project. He dug deep to compose each of the songs that form Zamazu, the result of the integration of all his influences: Afro-Cuban music, jazz, classical music and traditional Cuban music. In the words of one reviewer, his recording, Zamazu, is "a deftly varied and well-sequenced set that leaves a strong impression of who Fonseca is and promises plenty for the future."
2008 was a year full of work and experiences that have inspired Fonseca's new compositions, one being Columbia Pictures choosing the track "Llego Cachaito" from the Zamazu album for the Will Smith film Hancock.
With his 2009 album, Akokan, Fonseca wanted to bring the magic, strength and improvisation from a live show to the studio. With a quartet formation and accompanied by his band, the one that he had been playing with for the past 12 years, Fonseca as the record's producer encouraged creativity and chemistry amongst the musicians.
There are also two very special collaborations from artists that Fonseca admires, artists that have very different styles: Mayra Andrade, the Cape Verdean singer who wrote the words and sings on "Siete potencias", and Raul Midón, the American guitarist, who wrote "Second Chance". On this track Fonseca did the arrangements and Midon accompanied him on guitar.
In 2010 Fonseca was the support act for Omara Portuondo's USA. After the summer his album Roberto Fonseca Live in Marciac was released. It includes a bonus DVD which features footage of the festival's 2009 show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Fonseca

#777Roberto Fonseca: Yesun
Combining jazz sensibility and deep roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition, Yesun is the Havana-born artist’s ninth solo album. The record delves into the music of Fonseca’s homeland of Cuba while keeping its sights set firmly on the future, weaving in electronic beats, spoken word, retro-modern keyboards, Fonseca’s vocals and more.
“Yesun is the album I’ve always wanted to make,” says Fonseca of a record that combines everything from jazz and classical music to rap, funk, reggaeton and electronic music. “All my influences are here. All the sounds and vibes that make me who I am.”
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GRAMMY®-nominated Cuban pianist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader Roberto Fonseca is set for the release of his new album, Yesun, October 18 via Mack Avenue Records.
Combining jazz sensibility and deep roots in the Afro-Cuban tradition, Yesun is the Havana-born artist's ninth solo album. The record delves into the music of Fonseca's homeland of Cuba while keeping its sights set firmly on the future, weaving in electronic beats, spoken word, retro-modern keyboards, Fonseca's vocals and more.
"Yesun is the album I've always wanted to make," says Fonseca of a record that combines everything from jazz and classical music to rap, funk, reggaeton and electronic music. "All my influences are here. All the sounds and vibes that make me who I am."
In celebration of the upcoming release, JazzTimes is premiering the album track "Aggua" alongside a new music video directed by Joseph Ros.
"This tune felt very natural to write," says Fonseca of "Aggua," on which he plays grand piano, analog keyboards and percussion, as well as contributing bossa-nova style vocals. "I wanted to represent my Cuban roots with a tumbao"-the core rhythm that nourishes salsa, mambo and Latin jazz-"and I wanted to shake up some stuff."
Fonseca will tour the U.S. this coming spring in support of the album, with upcoming shows set for New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, DC, Seattle and Portland.
Yesun is a trio album whose 13 original tracks are bolstered by Fonseca's regular bandmates, drummer Raúl Herrera and longtime double bassist Yandy Martínez Rodriguez. Guests include Grammy-winning American saxophonist Joe Lovano, lauded French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, Grammy-nominated Cuban rapper/singer Danay Suárez, famed Cuban bolero diva Mercedes Cortés and a capella group Gema 4.
Yesun follows 2016's ABUC, praised for its "incandescent Cuban contrasts" by The Guardian. That same year, Fonseca served as Artistic Director of the inaugural Jazz Plaza Festival in Santiago de Cuba. Most recently, he received the prestigious Ordre des Arts Letters (Order of Arts and Letters) from the French Ministry of Culture.
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Roberto Fonseca – grand piano, analog keyboards, percussion, vocals
Yandy Martínez Rodriguez – double bass
Raúl Herrera – drums
Guests
Ibrahim Maalouf – trumpet
Joe Lovano – saxophon
Mercedes Cortés – vocals
Danay Suarez – rapper/singer
Gema 4 – a capella group