First time vinyl reissue of this awesome Latin jazz-funk gem by Venezuelan guitarist Alex Rodr\u00edguez\u2014 originally self-released in 1978.<\/p>\n
Rodr\u00edguez is a classical and jazz trained guitarist who in the early days of his career joined some of the best orchestras in Venezuela, including Aldemaro Romero\u2019s Onda Nueva. He put together a brief project, La Retreta Mayor, in 1976 which only released one album and would later move to New York where he had the opportunity to record his own songs with renowned musicians of the city at that time, like V\u00edctor Paz, Charlie Camalliari, Sam Burtis, Mario Bauza, Guillermo Edgil, Bernard Purdie, Jorge Dalto, among others.<\/p>\n
It took him a little more than a year writing the songs and preparing the material for \u201cBusqueda\u201d but in 1978 Alex Rodr\u00edguez would return to New York City. Jorge Dalto had spoken with Dennis Davis (drums), Stanley Banks (bass) who played together with George Benson, and V\u00edctor Paz contacted Alex with Ronnie Cuber (saxes), an excellent saxophonist, who later recorded \u2018Cumana\u2019 on his own album \u201cThe Eleventh Day Of Aquarius\u201d.<\/p>\n
Before going to the recording studio they did a rehearsal to review the music, and the next day Dalto, Banks, Davis, Cuber and Alex Rodr\u00edguez were recording in the CBS studio on 52nd street in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
The production and mixing of the album were finished in Caracas, at Sono 2000 studios, with the participation of excellent Venezuelan musicians such as Nen\u00e9 Quintero, Lucio Caminiti, Edgar Saume, Carlos Acosta, Alberto Naranjo, Rolando Brice\u00f1o, Leo and Frank Quintero, among others.\u00a0The resulting album contains quite a few heaters for the dance floor, like \u2018El Mercado\u2019, and tight, keys and guitar punctuated fusion jams! (just check the groovy opener \u2018Cumana\u2019.)<\/p>\n
\u201cB\u00fasqueda\u201d was then self-released and distributed in tiny quantities, becoming over the years a very sought-after collectors item, probably one of the most obscure albums from Venezuela. It now gets reissued on vinyl for the first time, including notes by Alex Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First time vinyl reissue of this awesome 1978 Latin jazz-funk gem by Venezuelan guitarist Alex Rodr\u00edguez, featuring top musicians like Jorge Dalto, Nen\u00e9 Quintero and George Benson\u2019s band members Dennis Davis and Stanley Banks, among many others. <\/p>\n
Originally self-released and distributed in tiny quantities, \u201cB\u00fasqueda\u201d has reached grail status among collectors worldwide. The album contains quite a few heaters for the dance floor, like \u2018El Mercado\u2019, and tight, keys and guitar punctuated fusion jams! (just check the groovy opener \u2018Cumana\u2019.)<\/p>\n
180g vinyl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":109147,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[254,15,193],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109276","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-funk-en","7":"product_cat-jazz","8":"product_cat-latin-en","9":"product_shipping_class-lp-en-3","10":"pa_formato-lp-en","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/109276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=109276"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=109276"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=109276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}