Jordi Gaspar

So Tender


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So Tender is my third work in “acoustic bass guitar solo” format. Recreating those jazz and Latin music standards with the sounds and resources that the acoustic bass offers. That guitar is my 5 strings Tacoma Thunderchief. I found this instrument in a store in N.Y. in 2005 and I have grown up with it. On the one hand, the process of discovering the color palette I can play with that instrument. On the other hand, the introspective process in which you gradually understands what you want to explain trough the music.

On my previous solo albums, Akixí (2009) and La Nit (2012), the repertoire is entirely made up of compositions for that instrument (well, except “Cançó per Bubú”, by Jordi Bonell). In that context, those parts were integrated, it didn't cross my mind to play jazz standards or boleros, just those pieces made between improvisation and composition.

For that reason So Tender. Playing those jazz standards as if they were my own compositions, stitched to my emotions. The interpretation generally includes exposition of the theme and improvisations in the most jazz sense. The repertoire has evolved over the years, So Tender is a snapshot of my present, just as I thought of AKIXÍ: here and that way.

So Tender Concert
Acoustic Bass Guitar Solo

So Tender Trio Concert
Santi de la Rubia - tenor sax
Oriol Roca - drums
Jordi Gaspar - Acoustic Bass Guitar

What are they saying about So Tender ...

☝Press release, by Núria Martorell (ca)  (es)


6/7/2022, CatRadio - Assaig General: Play the songs you play as if they were your own."


☝ 23/6/2022, Llorenç Gasset (Jazz Expresso): "A presentation on a stage where musician and audience were very close, they could almost play. This is what Jordi achieved with the interpretation of the repertoire of standards that fill the album "So Tender"."
  23/6/2022, "So Tender". Entrevista a Jordi Gaspar.(23-06-22)


☝ 11/6/2022, Llorenç Gasset (Jazz Expresso): "I am going to have the great luck to attend this presentation, with Mr. Jordi Gaspar going to interpret the lucky ones who are there, the totality of the themes included in the disc. An authentic delight..."
  11/6/2022, Jazz Expresso a Sants 3 Ràdio(10-06-22)


☝ 8/6/2022, Martí Farré (el Núvol): "... to make the instrument "used in rhythmic accompaniment to produce the most low sounds" (DIEC), a real box of melodic and melodious resonances. "
 A guitarra baixa, al Núvol, per Martí Farré (cat)


☝ 19/5/2022, La Clave De Fa: "In music, as in everything, you have to know what you want to tell. Understand it. Assimilate it. And express it by sewing the emotion sought to each note and each silence."
 La Clave de Fa, Jordi Gaspar presenta So Tender (esp)


☝ Luis Cabrera (Taller de Músics): "This bet is brave and achieves a peculiar sound, which the musician playing with his creative vein, has managed to engender so that the music of the whole project maintains the same thread, a sign of integrity that only high artists are able to to practice..."


Marco Mezquida: "... I have felt the pleasure of being caressed by the voice of a master of the bass strings, by the melodies sung, close, said with love and depth, through the songs of others, who make them their own, and which are, each, well-found jewels, ... the bet is brave and achieves a peculiar sound, which the musician playing with his creative vein, has been able to engender so that the music of the whole project maintains the same thread, a show of integrity that only tall artists are able to practice..."


Andreu Jacob: "Delicacy, harmonic richness and timbre beauty, space, courtesy and everything by nature. Listening to Jordi Gaspar, playing and recreating Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, is an experience full of elegance, under an exquisite language."


Iñaki Salvador: "Faced with this new collection of ten pieces in the hands of Jordi alone, others will come and write thoughtful analyzes expressed, at times, from erudition and, in any case and always, from the same subjectivity that governs us all. I am not faced with a blank page for such a need. I write at the moment when You Must Believe in Spring plays by chance, and who knows if perhaps by chance my calendar also testifies that it is March and spring is exploding in my window. Allow me to stretch the parallelism and the simple and naive play with literary whims to write, from the heart and the utmost sincerity, that the album that summons us offers ten legendary compositions that flourish in Jordi's hands with the same irremediable naturalness with which the nature that surrounds us. It seems that these songs have always been there, in his acoustic bass and under his direction, there being no other better place to shelter."


So Tender

  • Band: Jordi Gaspar
  • Title: So Tender
  • Published: February 28, 2022
  • Label: Juan Palomo Records / Temps Record
  • Format: CD
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Sala T24 Taller de Músics

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Conservatori de Palma

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19 maig 2022 10:30

Conservatori Palma de Mallorca

C/ d'Alfons el Magnànim 64, 07004 Palma

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