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Richard Jernigan -> RE: La correspondencia de Sabicas (Dec. 5 2021 3:01:07)
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"La Correspondencia de Sabicas" arrived today, in record time for recent European acquisitions. The cost of shipping via DHL Express was nearly the same as the price of the book + CD.
¨Correspondencia¨ refers to Sabicas's strong influence on young guitarists in Spain, though he left the country in 1936 at the beginning of the Civil War and never returned until 1984, for fear of political repercussions. The author, Jose Manuel Gamboa says Sabicas's many recordings served as a correspondence course for guitarists in Spain. Gamboa himself studied guitar with Melchor de Marchena.
After a relatively brief introduction the book is organized as commentaries on 40-odd recordings by Sabicas. This serves to establish chronology. The commentaries include much more than just remarks and analyses of the music. They are filled with rigorously sourced historical information from the times the discs were recorded, including quotes from numerous flamenco notables. There are many photos of Sabicas and others.There are long quotes from famous flamenco guitarists and cantaores like Enrique Morente and Gerardo Nuñez.
Nuñez has the final paragraphs, saying the learned flamenco copying falsetas from Sabicas LPs.
Ricardo might consider it a "reader's" book. It is dense with information, but doesn't have much of a plot, though it amounts to a well researched artistic biography. I just skimmed it. I'm looking forward to a thorough reading.
I haven't listened to the CD yet. All of it is from 78 rpm "discos de pizarra" except the Moreno Torroba "concierto" and the 3:27 of Sabicas speaking. I hope the 78s are as well re-mastered as the fairly recent reissue of Ramon Montoya's 1936 Paris records, but..we'll see.
RNJ
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