"Actor: Gonzalo Rubalcaba"

• Antonio Carlos Jobim - An All Star Tribute | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Direct from Brazil comes this deeply appreciative musical tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-94) co-founder and leading composer of the Bossa Nova. With hundreds of songs to his credit Jobim virtually single handedly brought the Bossa Nova to the world where it became a staple ingredient in the jazz cookbook. Jobim's new sound adapted the rhythmic variety and percussive excitement of the samba to the intimacy of syncopated guitar while echoing the melodies and harmonies of co

• Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio - Live At The Munchner Klaviersommer 1994 | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio: Live In Munich

• Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Jazz Sessions | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £13.45   |  Saving you £2.54 (18.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions is a 39 part television music profile/performance series. Each episode features complete musical pieces interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists. Shot in HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting designs SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles - from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond. In this unique program Gonzalo Rubalcaba displays his remarkable sensitivity toward the musical traditions from which he emerged and later embraced. As one of the most important figures to emerge from Afro-Cuban jazz in the '90s Rubalcaba is an extraordinarily versatile pianist able to blend disparate strands of Cuban and American jazz traditions into a fresh modern whole. By the time he arrived on the international jazz stage in the late '80s he had already established a name for himself and is now was widely considered one of the great virtuosos of the music.