{"id":20515,"date":"2015-10-27T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=20515"},"modified":"2016-11-13T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:11:04","slug":"paul-hemmings-the-blues-and-the-abstract-uke-leading-tone-records-2015-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/paul-hemmings-the-blues-and-the-abstract-uke-leading-tone-records-2015-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hemmings: The Blues and the Abstract Uke (Leading Tone Records, 2015; CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20516 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Paul-Hemmings_The-Blues-and-the-Abstract-Uke_Leading-Tone-Records_2015-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Hemmings_The Blues and the Abstract Uke_Leading Tone Records_2015\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Paul-Hemmings_The-Blues-and-the-Abstract-Uke_Leading-Tone-Records_2015-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Paul-Hemmings_The-Blues-and-the-Abstract-Uke_Leading-Tone-Records_2015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Paul-Hemmings_The-Blues-and-the-Abstract-Uke_Leading-Tone-Records_2015-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Paul-Hemmings_The-Blues-and-the-Abstract-Uke_Leading-Tone-Records_2015-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Paul-Hemmings_The-Blues-and-the-Abstract-Uke_Leading-Tone-Records_2015.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>El ukelele no es un instrumento muy habitual en el jazz. Por tanto, \u00fanicamente por ello, ya tiene m\u00e9rito el trabajo de <strong>Paul Hemmings<\/strong> titulado <em>The Blues and the Abstract Uke<\/em> (un gui\u00f1o al m\u00edtico y venerado <em>The Blues and the Abstract Truth<\/em> de Oliver Nelson). Si adem\u00e1s de sus intenciones, arma un disco a tr\u00edo con el contrabajista <strong>Gaku Takashi<\/strong> y el baterista <strong>Rudy Royston<\/strong>, a quienes se unen puntualmente el saxofonista <strong>Greg Tardy<\/strong> y el trombonista <strong>Curtis Fowlkes<\/strong> (en algunos momentos por separado, en tres piezas ambos aumentando la formaci\u00f3n de tr\u00edo hasta la de quinteto),\u00a0 el asunto se transforma en algo con bastante m\u00e1s enjundia que una grabaci\u00f3n en la categor\u00eda de instrumentaciones inusuales. Si adem\u00e1s de todo ello la propuesta incluye versiones de temas ajenos (<strong>Wes Montgomery<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Hall<\/strong> -se nota que Hemmings comenz\u00f3 su carrera como guitarrista-, y versiones de cl\u00e1sicos del blues y del country -\u00abFolsom Prison Blues\u00bb de <strong>Johnny Cash,<\/strong> \u00abSittin&#8217; On Top Of the World\u00bb, \u00abNobody Knows You When You&#8217;re Down And Out\u00bb), as\u00ed como piezas propias tan brillantes como \u00abHello Bean\u00bb (nueve minutos en quinteto arrebatadores e intensos) o \u00abGoodbye Lentil\u00bb (un precioso tema lento), con Hemmings bati\u00e9ndose el cobre y aguantando el nivel con unos solos magn\u00edficamente ejecutados junto a unos compa\u00f1eros del nivel de los elegidos para esta obra, la grabaci\u00f3n se convierte en algo a tener muy en cuenta, en una obra que llega bastante m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la pura curiosidad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a9 Pachi Tapiz, 2015<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paul Hemmings: The Blues and the Abstract Uke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paul Hemmings (ukelele), Gaku Takanashi (contrabajo), Rudy Royston (bater\u00eda)<br \/>\nInvitados: Greg Tardy (saxo tenor en \u00abThe Boogaloo&#8230;\u00bb, \u00abHello Bean\u00bb, \u00abStudy Hall\u00bb), Curtis Fowlkes (tromb\u00f3n en \u00abThe Boogaloo&#8230;\u00bb, \u00abCareful\u00bb, \u00abHello Bean\u00bb, \u00abStudy Hall\u00bb)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00abNobody Knows You When You&#8217;re Down And Out\u00bb (Jimmy Cox) \u00abFolsom Prison Blues\u00bb (Johnny Cash) \u00abThe Boogaloo Sensei Of East 78th Street\u00bb (Paul Hemmings) \u00abWest Coast Blues\u00bb (Wes Montgomery) Careful\u00bb (Jim Hall) \u00abGoodbye Lentil\u00bb (Paul Hemmings) \u00abHello Bean\u00bb (Paul Hemmings) \u00abSittin&#8217; On Top Of The World\u00bb (Walter Vinson) \u00abStudy Hall\u00bb (Paul Hemmings) \u00abPlease Send Me Someone To Love\u00bb (Percy Mayfield)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grabado en mayo y junio de 2014 East Side Sound, New York City, New York. Publicado en 2015 por Leading Tone Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El ukelele no es un instrumento muy habitual en el jazz. Por tanto, \u00fanicamente por ello, ya tiene m\u00e9rito el trabajo de Paul Hemmings titulado The Blues and the Abstract Uke (un gui\u00f1o al m\u00edtico y venerado The Blues and the Abstract Truth de Oliver Nelson). Si adem\u00e1s de sus<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/paul-hemmings-the-blues-and-the-abstract-uke-leading-tone-records-2015-cd\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17847,5,1038],"tags":[12651,9924,14174,12696,11667,13,12415,15295,979,14176,14175,31,14173,7299,16099,77,16100,7929],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","post-20515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-pachi-tapiz","category-grabaciones","category-contenidos","tag-cd","tag-curtis-fowlkes","tag-gaku-takashi","tag-grabaciones","tag-greg-tardy","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-en-espana","tag-jazz-en-espanol","tag-jim-hall","tag-johnny-cash","tag-leading-tone-records","tag-pachi-tapiz","tag-paul-hemmings","tag-rudy-royston","tag-toma-jazz","tag-tomajazz","tag-tomajazz-toma-jazz","tag-wes-montgomery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":104805,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/bill-frisell-in-my-dreams-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":20515,"position":0},"title":"Bill Frisell: In My Dreams (Blue Note Records; 2026) Por Carlos Lara [Grabaci\u00f3n de jazz]","author":"Tomajazz","date":"8 abril, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"In My Dreams (Blue Note Records; 2026) es el t\u00edtulo de la nueva grabaci\u00f3n de Bill Frisell. 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