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The Chilean Project
3+ albums
swingjazzjazz fusionchile
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One year after Christian Gálvez played with his trio at the Blue Note in New York, another Chilean group took to the stage. A quartet presented as The Chilean Project brought together four leading jazz soloists of the last three decades in the Chilean scene: Cristián Cuturrufo (trumpet), Gálvez himself (electric bass), Nelson Arriagada (double bass) and Alejandro Espinosa (drums). The band played two concerts in the Blue Note on August 23, 2015 and recorded an album with those performances. The Chilean Project live at the Blue Note would then acquire the status of historical album. The mixes were diverse and also exotic for the New York public, since the music represented pure Chilean jazz, but it was also in the process of mutation, with fusions of many styles associated with their own languages. "Porcinology" and the "Habanera para Pirisón" (Cuturrufo), played in the upper registers of the trumpet, are representative of these mixtures. But there are also "El redentor", "Crisálido" and "Imaginario" (Gálvez), much more modern as a contemporary fusion with a bass-oriented chordmelodic approach. New York-based pianist Pablo Vergara joins the quartet for "Celestiado" (Gálvez), while the entire group performs an experimental, jazz-rock piece created especially for this concert. "The jazz corner" came to the world to pay tribute to two very important jazz stages in the quartet's world: the Blue Note, and The Jazz Corner, in the provincial Italia neighborhood of Santiago, usual hea
