PROJECTS
Abe Rábade Trío
The band features since 2008:
Abe Rábade, piano and composition
Pablo Martín Caminero, acoustic bass
Bruno Pedroso, drums
First period
Abe Rábade Trío was founded in 1996 in Boston (EEUU). This first trio featured Galician bassist Paco Charlín and Bulgarian drummer Val Tzenkov. This first period was quite rich in recording sessions and recitals in the context of Berklee College of Music. An important part of the compositions recorded in the following years were written and ensembled during this time.
Award in Getxo, Babel de Sons and Simetrías
In 2000 the band settles in Galiza. It obtained that year the 2nd Prize at the International Contest of Jazz Groups of Getxo (Euskadi). The performance of that night conforms the first album of the trio: Babel de Sons (2001) with Paco Charlín on double bass and Ramón Ángel Rey on drums, new rhythm section that would be mantained until the end of 2004.
In 2002, the group publishes its second work, Simetrías, presented at the Festival de Jazz Plaza de La Habana (Cuba).
Among the many performances of the Abe Rábade Trío during that period the most remarkable are the following Jazz Festival appearances: Plaza de La Habana -edition 2002 (Cuba), Tanger (Morocco), San Sebastián and Getxo (Euskadi); Ibiza and Mallorca (Illes Balears), San Isidro, Jornadas UNED and Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), Gijón and Mieres (Asturias), Málaga (Andalucía), Granollers (Catalunya) as well as Lugo, A Coruña, Santiago, Pontevedra and Baiona (Galiza).
The group had concerts in well known jazz clubs as Café Central (Madrid), Café Latino (Ourense), Jamboree (Barcelona), Nova Jazz Cava (Terrassa), Café España (Valladolid), Manteca Jazz (Vigo) or Dado Dadá Jazz Club (Santiago de Compostela).
The Abe Rábade Trío will be also from this period on the basis for the GHU! Project, a band featuring outstanding jazz soloists such as Chris Kase, Jesús Santandreu or Michel González. This concept is mantained nowadays featuring soloists like Miguel Zenón, Perico Sambeat, Alan Ferber or Toni Belenguer.
Playing on Light
In 2006 the CD Playing on Lightis published. It features Paco Charlín on bass and the new member of the band; Portuguese drummer Bruno Pedroso. The Spaniard Magazine Cuadernos de Jazz chose this album as the Best Jazz Album in Spain 2006.
At the end of 2006 Portuguese bass player Nelson Cascais joins the trio.
The group played actively in clubs such as Hot Clube (Lisboa) or Calle 54, Boguie and Berlín Jazz Café (Madrid) as well as in Jazz Festivals de Jazz such as: Plaza de La Habana -edition 2008 (Cuba), Madeira and Estarreja (Portugal), Parla, Universidad Politécnica and Ciudad Lineal (Madrid), Jaca (Aragón), Jaén (Andalucía), Imaxinasons_Vigo and Allariz (Galiza).
The Abe Rábade Trío composed and performed the original music for the exhibition of Galician silent films Pioneiros do Cinema promoted by the Galician Center of Imaging Arts at the Teatro Principal of Santiago de Compostela (January of 2007).
The group took also part in the live broadcasts for TVG: Celebration of the XXV Anniversary of the Galician Parliament at the Auditorio Caixanova (Pontevedra, 2006) and the Gala of Galician Communication Awards at the Gran Hotel (A Toxa, 2008).
The band recorded also the following 2008 CD productions Rosalía 21 (presented at the Feira del Libro de La Habana -Cuba) and Aloumiños de Seda (comissioned by the General Bureau of Language Policy (Government of Galiza).
Abe Rábade Trío nowadays
Since 2008 the rhythm section of the trio features Pablo Martín Caminero on bass and Bruno Pedroso on drums.
It is remarkable the presentation of the trio work O Movemento dos Soños [The movement of dreams] at the Church of the University of Santiago de Compostela in February, 2009.
In 2010 the album Zigurat is published by Karonte Records. It contains 6 original compostions and a version of Federico Mompou´s Chanson num. 6. Zigurat was presented in the following cities: Berlín, Santiago de Chile, A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Ciudad Real, Madrid, Ourense, Vigo and Oviedo.
On April, 2012, Abe Rábade Trio releases its new album: "A Modo".
GHU! Project
The Abe Rábade GHU! Project was created in 2001 willing to experiment with a wider instrumental format than the trio (quintet, sextet or jazz septet) and to explore compositions and arrangements where the variety of timbre and the counterpoint are essencial factors.
The first release of the band was the GHU! Project vol.1, a CD recorded in 2002, but edited in 2004 by Karonte. This album featured Chris Kase (trumpet and flügelhorn), Jesús Santandreu (tenor sax), Michel González (guitar), Abe Rábade (piano), Paco Charlín (double bass) and Ramón Ángel Rey (drums).
During the celebration of the Holly Year of 2004 in Galiza (Xacobeo 2004) the band offered the special concert Cantigas Suite (a revision of XIII century Galician medieval music in a contemporary context -featuring Portuguese singer Mísia).
The second album of the GHU! Project is Open Doors (2008), in a septet format with Chris Kase (trumpet and flügelhorn), Perico Sambeat (saxo alto), Jesús Santandreu (tenor sax), Alan Ferber (trombone), Abe Rábade (piano), Nelson Cascais (double bass) and Bruno Pedroso (drums).
In March of 2009 is released Open Doors Live in Santiago, a DVD that captures the live performance of the band in the Capital of Galiza.
The repertoire of the GHU! Project is based on original compositions by Abe Rábade. A wide variety of jazz flavours are treated: energetic hard bop, lyrical character in ballads and medium tempos, rhythmic experimentation and the always present respect for jazz tradition.
Nordestin@s
Guadi Galego, Ugia Pedreira and Abe Rábade created Nordestin@s at the end of 2004. The traditional Galician songform is the basis for an acoustic project with a minimalistic approach; two voices ans a piano on the stage.
Nordestin@s' first album was published by the label Falcatruada in 2006. It was a TOP 100 seller in Spain in January of 2007. The band won also the 1st Prize at the VI Edition of the La Opinión Awards (Prizes on Music from Galiza).
From their premiere at the Teatro Principal de Pontevedra in 2005, the group had many live performances ever since. The most remarkable appearances were the concerts at the Palau da Música in Barcelona, Sala Clamores in Madrid, Salón Teatro and Teatro Principal de Compostela, as well as the participation of the band in the show Acústico Feminino [Feminine Acoustic] in Santiago, A Coruña and Ferrol.
More information and booking at abada.es
Jazzia
Jazzia was born in 2007 when magician Kiko Pastur and Abe Rábade decided to create a synthesis between Jazz and Magic. The search for this new artistic language is the essence of a project premiered at the Teatro Colón (A Coruña, Galiza) in October of 2008.
The work offers a minimalistic aesthetic, cosmopolitan, as well as an ecclectic script with some surreal elements, in a way that the expressed metapohres estimulate at the same time the rational and creative sides of the mind.
Jazzia presents solo piano musical compositions that offer many different jazz styles. The original music of the show is published on the album Jazzia.
More information at Jazzia.es
Rosalía 21
The project Rosalía 21 was created in 2007 by the writer Anxo Angueira to enhace the figure of Galician National Poet Rosalía de Castro. This review avoids the concept of Rosalía as a rural and sentimental writer to focus on her most courageous dimenssion, even feminist and nacionalist.
The album Rosalía 21 was published in 2008 (Falcatruada) and includes an anthology of texts by Rosalía de Castro in a new musical background composed by Abe Rábade.
This record features Anxo Angueira (recited voice), Guadi Galego (voice), Jesús Santandreu (tenor sax), Abe Rábade (piano), Nelson Cascais (double bass) and Bruno Pedroso (drums).
The official presentation of the project was at the Feria del Libro de La Habana (Cuba), in which Galician literature was the main focus in 2008. The performance was held at the Teatro Meia with Cuban songwriter Pablo Milanés as special guest.
Rosalía 21's concert includes sung pieces with rhythm section and tenor sax, sung and recited texts 'a capela', duets of voice and double bass or voice and piano, a instrumental composition and a recited poem over a quite experimental arrangement. The performance offers also a film with the thoughts on Rosalía by authors such as Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, Xabier Cordal, María do Cebreiro or Nancy Pérez.
Seminario Permanente de Jazz
The Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra [Permanent Jazz Workshop of Pontevedra] was created in 2000 by Luís Carballo, Paco Charlín and Abe Rábade. It has been a model for the growth of Jazz music in Galiza ever since. This collective works following two main goals: the career development of musicians and the promotion of this musical style in society thru jazz concerts and the edition of CD's.
The academic year at the SPJ goes from October to June. Its main goal is to offer the students every possible material to enhace their abbilities in the improvisation and general performance of jazz music. The work is mainly focused on interpretation, repertoire, improvisation and ensemble. On top of the practical-type classes, the workshop puts a special emphasis on composition, harmony, arranging and history for the students to have a complete understanding of Jazz music.
More information and aplication at pontejazz.org
Kind Steps
The project Kind Steps wants to pay a tribute to one of the most productive years in the history of Jazz music; 1959. The fifty anniversary of many landmark records such as Kind of Blue or Giant Steps inspired producer and drummer Mário Barreiros and pianist and arranger Abe Rábade to put a 3 horn ensemble together. The repertoire's goal is to revisit historic compositions from the following records of '59:
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
Giant Steps (John Coltrane)
Mingus Ah Um (Charlie Mingus)
Cannonbal Takes Charge (Cannonball Adderley)
The Shape of Jazz to Come (Ornette Coleman)
Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington)
The band includes jazzmen from New York, Portugal, Valencia and Galiza:
Avishai Cohen trumpet
Ben Van Gelder & Perico Sambeat alto sax
Jesús Santandreu tenor sax
Abe Rábade piano and arrangements
Carlos Barreto double bass
Mário Barreiros drums
The album Kind Steps will be released in the Fall.
AZOS jazz
AZOS is an adventure involving jazz in Galiza. This discographic label wants to emphasize the making of new jazz talents in the area as well as collaborations among players from all over the world that have Galiza as a meeting point.
"Jazz" means an open conception; to influences, the destiny of music and the destiny of musicians. Azos wants to be a window with no limit, from a Galician perspective.
AZOS is a project founded by Abe Rábade & Sergio Lago (Falcatruada)
AZOS is distributed by Karonte (in CD) and by Lonxa Cultural (digitally)