BOBBY ENRIQUEZ: LIVE IN TOKYO

BOBBY ENRIQUEZ
Bobby Enriquez, apesar do nome, não era latino e sim Filipino. Entra no blog porque no álbum tem Tom Jobim (Meditação). Facilitou a minha vida pois eu iria utilizar um artifício qualquer, ou dizer que Bobby tem um pé em Porto Rico... e vai ver tem mesmo: ninguém tem sobrenome Enriquez impunemente.
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BOBBY ENRIQUEZ
Bobby Enriquez was born on May 20, 1943 in Bocolod City, in the Philippines as Roberto Delprado Yulo Enriquez. Enriquez was a child prodigy who started playing piano at the age of two and began his professional career aged 12. He ran away from home at 15 and for the next nine years toured Southeast Asia playing jazz piano. In 1987 while broadcasting her weekly show “The Swing Years and Beyond” on the National Public Radio station KUOW in Seattle, WA, Cynthia Doyon had this to say: Born on the island of Negeros just north of Mindanao. his first love was the piano but his mother wanted him to concentrate on schoolwork. he started his professional career as a musician at the age of 14, sneaking out his second floor bedroom window at night
to play gigs and when his mother found out what he was doing at night she shut down the piano and told him to concentrate on homework. So he ran away from home and went to Manila. Once in Manila, he joined various jazz groups and from there he played in Taipei and Hong Kong where he met such jazz lumineries as Mel Torme, Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente, and Chico Hamilton. And eventually he landed a major gig at the famed Golden Dragon Lounge in Honolulu, and while in Hawaii he became Don Ho’’s orchestra leader and musical director. In 1967, he arrived in Los Angeles and played briefly for the The Sunspots, before moving to Hawaii where he became Don Ho’s musical director. He also performed with Amapola Cabase. Bobby Enriquez was known as “the Wildman” for his unpredictable yet engrossing piano style. Mr. Enriquez passed away in 1996.
(Source: Wikipedia - edited by CB)
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MINHA OPINIÃO - o estilo do precocemente falecido pianista filipino BOBBY ENRIQUEZ foi nitidamente influenciado pelo grande ART TATUM: improvisos com muitas notas, tocadas rapidamente em toda a extensão do piano. Bobby Enriquez toca com "raça". Usualmente as harmonias originais são preservadas, porque o "wild man" não tinha tempo para sutilezas harmônicas nem re-harmonizações. A "levada" da mão esquerda lembra muito a de ERROL GARNER. Em tempo: isso não é crítica mas, tão somente a constatação das nítidas influências de dois grandes pianistas, nos quais Bobby Enriquez, sem dúvida, se inspirou para forjar sua própria maneira de tocar. O repertório não podia ser melhor, recheado de grandes temas de jazz assinados por gente do calibre de Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Waller, Toots Thielemans, etc. E - de quebra - o nosso "maestro soberano".

(*)HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS: essa música de David Rose, composta por volta de 1955, tem seqüências harmônicas e modulações inovadoras, que vieram a ser muito utilizadas na bossa-nova. Curiosamente e por absoluta coincidência, a primeira parte de "Holliday for Strings" lembra muito a da segunda parte de CARINHOSO. É uma peça complexa e muito rica, tanto harmônica quanto melódicamente.
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BOBBY ENRIQUEZ: LIVE IN TOKYO
Year: 1983
Label: GNP Crescendo Records

PERSONNEL:
Bobby Enriquez, piano
Isso Fukui, bass
Shinji Mori, drums

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Killer Joe
2. Airegin
3. After Hours
4. Meditation
5. Misty
6. Groovin’ High
7. Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Honeysuckle Rose
8. Holiday For Strings
9. Donna Lee
10. Bluesette
11. Confirmation
12. Del Sasser
13. Could It Be Magic
14. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
15. Scrapple From The Apple

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