Subtitled “The Jazz Guitar Trio, Vol. 4” this CD was recorded live in Barcelona in 1999. It's clear from the first track, a greasy version of Jimmy Heath's “Ginger Bread Boy,” that this will be a straightahead romp. This is the 11th CD for award-winning Spanish guitarist Ximo Tebar, an excellent player with a warm tone that (thankfully) bears no resemblance to the Hawaiian shirt school of electric guitar; in his notes, Benny Golson calls Tebar "astounding." He's creative and classy, using his powerful chops to further the music rather than his own ego; he's also a talented scatter (see especially “Donna Lee”). DeFrancesco is in fine form — less flamboyant here than he'd become — and does credible Miles imitations on “But Not For Me” and “You Don't Know What Love Is.” There's a swinging “Sugar” and a blazing closer, Dizzy's “The Champ.” This is a good CD for dealing with the end of summer: though the leaves may fall, your spirits will rise.
(Judith Schlesinger, All About Jazz NYC, Sep 2004)
Label Sunny Side
Recorded in Barcelona, Spain 12/1999
Personel
Ximo Tébar - guitar & scat vocals
Joey DeFrancesco – trumpet, Hammond B3
Idris Muhammad - drums
Tracklist
1 - Ginger bread boy (Jimmy Heath)
2 - But not for me (George & Ira Gershwin)
3 - Nica’s dream (Horace Silver)
4 - Donna Lee (Charlie Parker)
5 - You don’t know what love is (De Paul & Raye)
6 - St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins)
7 - Sugar (Stanley Turrentine)
8 - The Champ (Dizzy Gillespie)
Part I
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Part II
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