> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Rafael Zaldivar - Rumba - URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/rafael-zaldivar-rumba/ - Published: 2022-09-20T13:00:42.000Z - Updated: 2025-12-10T22:33:45.000Z - Description: Featuring Kurt Rosenwinkel, Terri Lyne Carrington, and more - Author: Will Chernoff - Tags: Free Weekly ## Get the free weekly email The week's upcoming jazz shows from the gig list + articles like this one. Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. You get it on Tuesdays, 6:00 AM Pacific Time. Unsubscribe any time. Pianist and percussionist **Rafael Zaldivar** has a lot of wind in his sails on what I gather is his fifth album, *Rumba*. Rafael, with Effendi Records, brings some of the heaviest features you'll see in Canadian jazz this year, from Terri Lyne Carrington to Kurt Rosenwinkel and beyond. --- [![Condition Blue by Cory Weeds graphic](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/2b/152b7411-0202-45a2-9f09-f39a793683ef/content/images/2022/06/condition-blue-400.jpg)](https://www.twitch.tv/bsidedotradio/?utm%5Fsource=rhythm-changes&utm%5Fmedium=free-weekly-article&utm%5Fcontent=img&utm%5Fcampaign=fwa-2022-09-20) Thank you to **Condition Blue** for sponsoring this free weekly article. Tune into Cory Weeds' online jazz radio show Wednesdays 12pm-2pm PT [**on Twitch**](https://www.twitch.tv/bsidedotradio/?utm%5Fsource=rhythm-changes&utm%5Fmedium=free-weekly-article&utm%5Fcontent=text&utm%5Fcampaign=fwa-2022-09-20) or listen in the browser at [**bsideradio.com**.](https://bside.radio/?utm%5Fsource=rhythm-changes&utm%5Fmedium=free-weekly-article&utm%5Fcontent=text&utm%5Fcampaign=fwa-2022-09-20) --- It's particularly nice timing to feature Terri Lyne Carrington, whose *New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers* book is getting a lot of well-deserved press right now. The two back-to-back tracks with Carrington on drums are night and day, with the first one – "Baila Mi Changüí" – featuring hyperbebop ensemble lines to contrast the other – "Guajiro", the only calmer moment on the record so far. But also, Miguel Zenón lights up "A Pray" with alto playing that goes from delicate to high-velocity in a hurry; and Ingrid Jensen solos like Kenny Wheeler, in a duet, atop a Rhodes(?) on "Tiempos De Amar". The album plays with structure, making you notice where you are and how the ground shifts beneath your feet. "Eleggua" is a restless intro that somehow still sets the scene for everything that follows. And "Interlude" almost made me mad: how could they allow us to hear only 53 seconds of this piano trio power? The Kurt track, "Dolor de Amar", is long – basically twice the length of any other track on the album. The melody has odd traces of "Viva La Vida" (or the adjacent [Joe Satriani tune where he sued Coldplay](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/satrianis-viva-la-vida-copyright-suit-against-coldplay-dismissed-68391/?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)), though the ensemble sound is Kurt-worthy indeed, like his album *Star of Jupiter*. Within the album there's another juxtaposition, the soft "Two Words" *à la* [Jonny Tobin](https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/jonny-tobin-together-ep-33/), next to "Short Blues". "Short Blues" has hints of Thelonious Monk's "Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues Are", features Rafael's base piano trio with Rémi-Jean LeBlanc and Louis-Vincent Hamel (whom you'll hear about next week too, oddly enough), and is so-out of place... ...But pretty great! It could easily be filled out into its own full-length album. There's more where that came from. *Rumba* is ambitious, challenging yet joyful, and remarkable – as big a swing for the fences as you'll get in Canadian jazz this year. [*Link here*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-32qHESpxI&list=OLAK5uy%5FmzG41thOHnaDD5Bp-MpTbbxpTdfCMLsU8&ref=rhythmchanges.ca) *via YouTube; I'll add something else when I can find a better link to share this album.* ***Rumba:*** Eleggua; A Pray; Interlude; Baila Mi Changüí; Guajiro; Two Words; Short Blues; Dolor de Amar; Alma; Crying for Cuba; Tiempos de Amar; Obbatala. (53:52) #### Personnel (it's a lot of people!) **in order provided by press package* - Piano: Rafael Zaldivar - Vocals: Rafael Zaldivar (12), Amado Dedeu Garcias Jr. (1, 12), Amada Dedue Garcias Sr. (12), Sara Rossy (2), Dayron Luis San Juan (12), Jorge Varona (12) - Synthesizer: Rafael Zaldivar (1, 2, 8, 9, 11), Amhed Mitchel (9) - Guitar: Kurt Rosenwinkel (8) - Trumpet: Ingrid Jensen (11), Alexis Baro (10), Jocelyn Couture (4), Rémi Cormier (4), Alexander Brown (10), Ron Di Lauro (4) - Alto Sax: Miguel Zenon (2), Luis Deniz (10), Jean-Pierre Zanella (4) - Tenor Sax: André Leroux (4), Kirk MacDonald (10), Pat LaBarbera (10) - Bass: Roberto Occhipinti (10), Rémi-Jean LeBlanc (3-5, 7-9) - Drums: Louis-Vincent Hamel (3, 7-9), Terri Lyne Carrington (4, 5), Amhed Mitchel (2, 10) - Percussion: Rafael Zaldivar (2-4), Amado Dedeu Garcias (1, 4, 5, 12), Dayron Luis San Juan Maguercia (12), Carlos Henrique Feitosa (8), Jorge Luis Papiosco (10)