Excerpt: “By the time of the closing “Transculturation” (from his debut release), with the trio’s aggressive and empathetically percussive interplay, the audience realized that they had witnessed something beyond the ordinary. The piano trio, a long time stalwart of jazz, had been taken to a higher plane this full mooned evening in Bel Air.”
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Excerpt: ”Rodriguez plays as if he eats Chopin and Stockhausen for breakfast. Beyond the conservatory-driven technique, he’s combustibly at home with Afro-Caribbean folk forms and rhythms and has digested the last several decades of jazz piano trio evolution, boiling it all down with acuity.”
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