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Reviewer: Marco Piva
Review Date: June 2004
The bass virtuoso Al Garcia publishes this beautiful “Make It So” underlining
the very close relationship still existing between jazz and progressive.
All the sounds Garcia draws from his bass (pictured on the CD cover) and his
guitar could easily be inserted in a jazz context, but this undoubtedly is a
progressive record, or better, it can be contextualized in that midway genre
called fusion, marking the link between jazz and prog.
Garcia’s fingers on the (often fretless) keyboard of his bass draw dreamlike
atmospheres in which the listener is drawn almost by force, between
tropical-like suggestions and passages that make think one of the dense fog so
typical of many horror movies – or, if you prefer, of the Italian North-Eastern
plain.
Al Garcia wants to prove that bass is not only a rhythm instrument, and that
jazz and fusion are not dead; and reaches both objectives in such a masterful
way that no more doubts can arise about either topic.
So, Congratulations to Al Garcia.
www.liraproductions.com/alfgar
alfgar@earthlink.net
Vote: 10/10