* * * * FOUR STARS
They are four musicians with a vast personal journey. everyone has their main base in jazz although they can be found on records or presentations accompanying singers or playing with colleagues from other genres. The four of them are in the list of the best musicians of our country; at a mature age and with a good accumulated curriculum, but still young enough to always be curious about new things.
This group started a couple of years ago without abandoning other projects. There were gigs in Buenos Aires and other places in the country. And that empathy ended up materializing in a album recorded last yearknown not so long ago, which is now having its official presentations with a couple of concerts in Bebop Club that will be repeated in the middle of July in the same place.
URMG are Juan Cruz de Urquiza on trumpet, Guillermo Romero on piano, Javier Malosetti on bass and Oscar Giunta on drums. They are a jazz quartet that we could call classical, with a particular interest in ballads, with members who compose as well as play standards and who live, improvise,
virtuosity not necessarily acrobatic, his best result.
In these shows in the music club of Palermo they made a good part of the album. And Urquiza’s muted trumpet for Thad’s Blues by Thad Jones or the flugelhorn for Jerome Kern’s “Nobody Else But Me” was wonderful. Malosetti’s solo bass for Herbie Hancock’s “The Eye of the Hurricane” or his own “Fig” was funkier. They were all subtle and great in the encore for Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo”. Juan Cruz’s “29/12” waltz and Romero’s “URMG Blues” were beautiful. But beyond the record, some premieres were allowed: “New Waltz” by the pianist, “What if I Don’t” by Hancock and “Fafu’s Madness” by the great trumpeter of the quartet.
