Jorge Lopez Ruiz - 1971 - Bronca Buenos Aires

Jorge Lopez Ruiz 

1971

Bronca Buenos Aires

01. La Ciudad Vacía

02. Relatos

03. Amor Buenos Aires

04. Bronca Buenos Aires

Contrabass, Producer – Jorge Lopez Ruiz

Organ – Santiago Giacobbe

Percussion – Enrique "Zurdo" Roizner

Piano, Flute – Fernando Gelbard

Tenor Saxophone – Horacio "Chivo" Borraro

Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Pompeyo "Cholo" Carlo

Trombone – Gregorio Golinsky

Trombone – Horacio Cusato

Trombone – Jorge Pataro

Trumpet – Alfredo Mariconda

Trumpet – Americo Belloto

Trumpet – Domingo Mariconda

Trumpet – S. D'Amico (tracks: 3,4)

Trumpet – Tomas Lepere (tracks: 1,2)

Drums – Carlos "Pocho" Lapouble

Electric Bass – Alfredo Remus

Flugelhorn – Gustavo Bergalli

Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Francisco "Paco" Freigido

Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Alberto Mizrahi

Coro – Alicia Varady

Coro – Donna Carbol

Coro – Helen Jackson

Coro – Julio Darre

Coro – Maria Eugenia Dabre

Coro – Mario Orliac

Coro – Roberto Aguirre

Narrator – Jose Tcherkaski

Essential jazz from Argentina, originally released in 1971. Bronca Buenos Aires is one of the highlights in the career of Jorge López Ruiz, alongside El Grito and the much-acclaimed Viejas Raíces project.

The album is jazz poem by López Ruiz to the city he loved, not just for its virtues but also its faults, and the recording was an ambitious project that gathered many of the prominent jazz musicians of Buenos Aires.

However, due to the repressive political context of the time, Bronca Buenos Aires was not performed live upon its release. The text that accompanies the music, written and narrated by José Tcherkaski, was too daring despite not being directly outspoken against the dictatorship that ruled in Argentina, and broadcasters kept a distance under fear of retaliation by the military establishment. Inexplicably, several later re-releases of Bronca Buenos Aires omitted the spoken word overdubs, reducing the work to an instrumental album and stripping it of half of its beauty and significance.