Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Sometimes you almost want to pity Gonzalo Rubalcaba's poor piano. The jazzman's hands
can work the thing over like a NYPD Blue good cop-bad cop routine, one fist pounding the
rhythms, the other gently teasing out the melodies. But the thirty-seven-year-old's latest
album (as well as his beautifully restrained work on Charlie Haden's recent Nocturne) finds
him in a more subdued mood, in which he's even more impressive than when he'... More >