Jazz 7 by Andrés Belmonte

♪♪ It begins this way, with two eight notes, the CD of Andrés Belmonte. And it also ends that way, with the sound of flute always as protagonist. In between, there is more than one hour of personal music, written, arranged and performed by this young musician from Valencia. Belmonte knows the flute very well: the instrument and the repertoire. He masters all the flute family members, from the melancholic bass flute, velvetized and quiet; to the sharped piccolo, with its diaphanous and penetrating sound; going through the docile alto flute, discreet, almost timid; and, evidently, the soprano flute, the main one, in which Belmonte has a clear and direct sound, well worked out. But he also knows the Literature for his instrument, the classical and the modern one. Not in vain, he has studied the two disciplines, first in his native Valencia; and later in the distant low lands of Rotterdam. And all this baggage can be listened in his first recording, where Belmonte has laid much heart, but also he has laid much head. And he has made a round CD, it's well organized conceptually and aesthetically organic. But besides to recognize the evident qualities on interpretation and composition, we have to be thankful to him because he has been brave. In spite of being his first disc, Andrés Belmonte has taken risks: in the timbrical combinations (like in the piccolo/double bass duo), in the instrumental sets (without harmonic support, for example) and in the repertoire (when including, without scruples, compositions like Nana Vidalita). And he has succeed so well that he had still time to fill up the recording with references to the great masters and to put humour strokes, it's always something to be grateful. I hoped that this is only the Comienzos de Búsqueda (Beginnings of searching) of Andrés Belmonte.

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