Horacio Borraro - 1966 - El Nuevo Sonido Del ''Chivo'' Borraro

Horacio Borraro

1966

El Nuevo Sonido Del ''Chivo'' Borraro

01. Charlie's Blues 6:40

02. La Paz 5:20

03. Half And Half 5:20

04. Summertime 5:50

05. Polka Dots And Moonbeams 9:00

Contrabass – Alfredo Remus

Drums – Eduardo Casalla

Piano – Fernando Gelbard

Tenor Saxophone – Horacio Borraro

“Goat” Borraro, first a clarinetist and later a tenor saxophone, was born in 1925 in Buenos Aires, into a family of non-professional musicians who graduated from a conservatory. He began playing in neighborhood clubs whose dances had typical and jazz bands as their main number. The first relevant group that he joined, the Rhythm Makers, was one of the first Buenos Aires experiences in search of pure, non-danceable jazz that cultivated the Chicago style. Conceived by students from the Faculty of Architecture, they did not release commercial records, although their name endured for pursuing the supremacy of improvisational practice. The Rhythm Makers were to '40s and '50s jazz what alternative bands were to '90s rock, with the difference that none of them managed or wanted to cross the line that limits what is minority from what is massive. He participated in the Hot Club, from which he left in open dissent in 1954, to join the first great modern band led by Lalo Schiffrin.

In a personal letter reproduced in his autobiography, he would write years later: "[...] tell the members of the Board of Directors of the Hot Club that I have reserved a place for them in the ark that I plan to build, since it is my wish that no animal species is left without representation within it.

At the Bop Club he won the annual poll for best clarinetist year after year, until thanks to a loan from drummer Pichi Mazzei he was able to acquire his tenor sax.

A wonderfully edgey album -- and a lost classic of South American jazz! The album's a rare 1966 set cut by Argentinian tenorist Chivo Borraro and his quartet -- done in a style that uses some fantastic influences from American modal and soul jazz of the 60s, filtered through some of the freer rhythms of the European scene of the same time. There's a number of cuts on here that remind us of the best expatriot work of American player Nathan Davis -- raw and emotive playing, yet always swinging as much as possible