Manuel Valera - Live at l'Osons Jazz Club '2024

Tracks list

"Live at L’Osons Jazz Club" - originally recorded for a live broadcast
for France Musique- catches Manuel Valera’s new trio with Yasushi
Nakamura and Mark Whitfield Jr at the height of its power doing what they do
best, highly interactive, visceral music that bridges the gap between chamber
music, straight ahead jazz and avant-garde music. The recording showcases
Valera’s compositions as well as fresh renditions of Monk’s
"Evidence", Cole Porter’s "All of You", Jimmy Van Heusen’s "Darn
That Dream" and the Cuban classic bolero by Osvaldo Farres "Tres Palabras". All
of these standards have been recorded many times but Valera re-imagines them in
a very crisp and original way.

This album also features a couple live versions of compositions from
Valera’s 2018 album "The Planets" (Mercury and Neptune) which was
commissioned by Chamber Music America in 2017. If he had to give 5 adjectives
for this new album, Manuel chooses: creative, collaborative, expressive, burning
and spontaneous!

Tracklist:
1.01 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - Mercury (6:01) 
1.02 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - From The Ashes
(6:23) 
1.03 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - Evidence (5:26) 
1.04 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - Ballade (8:15) 
1.05 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - Mirage (8:26) 
1.06 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - Darn That Dream
(6:19) 
1.07 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - Tres Palabras (8:03)

1.08 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - Neptune (7:44) 
1.09 - Yasushi Nakamura, Manuel Valera, Mark Whitfield Jr - All of you (9:02)

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