Juan de Diego - Grebalariak - Azken Uda (2024) [Hi-Res]

Juan de Diego explains that the name of the album should be shelter, but decided to change the idea after the death of his mother in the summer. Perhaps now, taking advantage of the broader perspective that time and result give us, one can somehow say that one title is behind the other and that the two are one. After the last harsh summer, the time has come for a refuge of loving memories. And it's the kind of healing music that we'd like to hear while we're reminded of photos and anecdotes from a whole life in a sad autumn at the back of the hostel fire that brings us to this great album.

Recorded at the Sol de Sants Studios in Barcelona, in these 10 touching and delightful tunes filled with Jazz Elegance by Ernest Ifoast, Juan de Diego's trumpet and flugelhorn, Toni Saigi on piano, Pere Loe Ife on double bass, and Ramon Prats on percussion, they are always ready to be a solid support and also a constant interlocutor for a rich relationship.

In any case, there is no desire or need for personal demonstration in the warm shelter. In these 10 pieces, between the echoes of “Sket Ankhes of Spain” or “Round Midnight”, we will be able to find and enjoy the soulful, fragile, elegy-like trumpet solo of “last summer”, the playful s ankhing of “the sailor”, the blues of “the man from Tiflis”and the colorful bossa touches of “chefinho”R. But above all, each musician is given the air to express his memory and his emotion by beautifully expressing his mastery. The affinity, The Loving Memory, the closeness and immortal company of the music is the key here and the core of the album. In the sweetness of the percussion, both the piano and the double bass can taste the amazing contributions gently.