Search - Furst Baby Lopez :: Jazz En La Universidad

A minor masterpiece in the bop idiom by a little-known Argen

E. Lopes | São Paulo, Brazil | 10/02/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A reissue of a vinyl disc released in Argentina in the late sixties, this CD contains some very fine playing by the late Rubén "Baby"López Furst, a magnificently inventive and very swinging pianist whose recorded output is, alas, very limited in the face of his talent.



This is acoustic piano trio music of the highest order, guaranteed to blow the socks off anybody who has an interest in bop-inspired piano in the lineage of Bud, Phineas Newborn Jr. and Horace Parlan (with a few nods to Bill Evans here and there.) I only withhold a fifth star on account of a few minor and isolated recording glitches that shouldn't really put anyone off from buying this CD."