If this music was playing in the background you might would only notice a cool groove topped with interesting guitars and electronics, but give the music a closer listen and you will hear how each track tends to morph and grow as it goes along. Whether these arrangements were pre-composed or created on a computer program after the fact would not make any difference to what our ears are hearing. There are still plenty of hot guitarists on hand here, but the solos are shorter and are used to add meaning to the arrangements. Whereas early Fractal installments leaned heavily on extended guitar solos, on 3 the emphasis now is more on composition and arrangement. The overall sound of ‘3’ is similar to the first two, but there are changes as well. “Fractal Guitar 3” is of course Stephan Thelan’s third installment in his fractal guitar series. Impressive work of three greats, tradition rooted but with lots of Cuban passion. Compositions are all different, quite memorable, and DeJohnette and Patitucci are both in a great form too. Rubalcaba demonstrates here his best playing - emotive, tuneful, very technical, with classical touch, but never formal and very lively. There are two trio member's originals on this album - Patitucci's ballade "Peace And Quiet Time", and DeJohnette's "Ebony", plus two more of Rubalcaba's own songs - "Joao" and the closer "Mima". The trio switches toward jazz roots on "Autumn Leaves", where Rubalcaba's classical training feels more obvious, and the composition sounds really great. Lennon's "Imagine", bright lyrical ballade, sounds surprisingly fresh. The album's opener, "No Name", is a six minute long Rubalcaba original, a fast tuneful fusion piece that Hiromi would be proud of.
They are a highest class small band, with whom Rubalcaba shows his excellent level of musicianship as lead and as collaborator. His trio at this festival, where they recorded "Images", is an all-acoustic trio with drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist John Patitucci. In 1991 he moved from Cuba to the Dominican Republic, that same year he participated in one of the largest jazz festivals in Japan, Mt.
Classically trained Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba toured Europe during the early 80s, and played at Montreux with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian in 1990.
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