Altercat Records / ALT019 / Germany / 2022

“Jazz Next Standard”誌掲載の南米ジャズの傑作!!
ブエノスアイレスのジャズ・ベース奏者、ホルヘ・ロペス・ルイスによる6枚目となるリーダー作。録音は1971年、一時は南米随一の大きな繁栄を誇った大都市、ブエノスアイレスの不安定な社会情勢へカウンターとして奏でられた壮大なジャズ演奏!!


大編成のオーケストラ、スペイン語のスポークンワーズ、男女混声コーラス、扇情的なソロ・サックスが複雑に絡み合って、まるで映画音楽のような効果を生み出している。ゲストで呼ばれたアルフレッド・マリコンダの躍動感溢れるフェンダー・ベースも素晴らしい。アルゼンチンを支配していた独裁政権に対して明確に発言をしたわけではないにもかかわらず、その言葉はあまりにも大胆で、放送局も軍事政権の報復を恐れて距離を置いていたという。前衛〜実験的な試みでありながら、当時のヨーロッパや日本のそれとも似て異なるどこか摩訶不思議な魅力に満ちたアルゼンチン産ジャズの傑作。


A1. La Ciudad Vacía 09:08
A2. 08:16
B1. Amor Buenos Aires 08:46
B2. Bronca Buenos Aires 07:24


Essential jazz from Argentina, originally released in 1971. Bronca Buenos Aires is one of the highlights in the career of Jorge López Ruiz, alongside El Grito and the much-acclaimed Viejas Raíces project.

The album is jazz poem by López Ruiz to the city he loved, not just for its virtues but also its faults, and the recording was an ambitious project that gathered many of the prominent jazz musicians of Buenos Aires.

However, due to the repressive political context of the time, Bronca Buenos Aires was not performed live upon its release. The text that accompanies the music, written and narrated by José Tcherkaski, was too daring despite not being directly outspoken against the dictatorship that ruled in Argentina, and broadcasters kept a distance under fear of retaliation by the military establishment. Inexplicably, several later re-releases of Bronca Buenos Aires omitted the spoken word overdubs, reducing the work to an instrumental album and stripping it of half of its beauty and significance.

Altercat proudly brings you a new reissue of this essential recording IN FULL, with its original spoken words in Spanish, respecting the original artwork and with an accompanying booklet with an English translation of the texts, including a foreword by Jose Tcherkaski. Sound sourced from the master tapes, and caringly mastered by Pablo López Ruiz.


JORGE LÓPEZ RUIZ: Double bass, music, production.
JOSÉ TCHERKASKI: Text and narration.
ÓSCAR LÓPEZ RUIZ: Direction.
ALFREDO REMUS: Fender bass.
POCHO LAPOUBLE: Drums.
SANTIAGO GIACOBBE: Organ.
ENRIQUE "El Zurdo" ROIZNER: Perscussion.
FERNANDO GELBARD: Piano and flute.
HORACIO "Chivo" BORRARO: Tenor saxophone.
ALBERTO MIZRAHI: Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet.

Recorded in ESTUDIOS ION in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

For extended credits please see the back cover of the vinyl edition!