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Ricardo -> RE: Jesus de Rosario (Mar. 27 2026 10:43:42)
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ORIGINAL: hxwhf72752003
Recently, I have been so into Jesus de Rosario's style. His magical tone and the way using chords made me crazy. But why are there only a few videos on YouTube? And I noticed that he only had two albums.
Yes, well, he was part of the "nueva escuela" promoted by Gerardo Nuñez, the younger generation of hard working accompanists that were not having much outlet to display solo creativity. The majority of legit flamenco players are in this camp as this is part of the culture. Anyway I think Nuñez produced his albums (at least one for sure). Antonio Rey admitted that Gerardo pushed him and he knew he did not really have material, he was playing traditional "paco" and such that is not appropriate to record.
Rey's first album sounds forced and then he got it together on his next efforts and become a proper "solista". Some of these other guys the opposite, and I feel Jesus was of the best. He had a limited amount of strong material and used it for those historic recordings. That is it. I am glad he does not try to force a new record again and again of the same type of thing (as Vicente Amigo has done). Flamenco is not that type of music of open creativity...once you find your voice, you present all the palos with your personal style and you are done, then you keep working as the accompanist. Being a solo player like Paco de Lucia is an unusual thing in the genre and he was a unique case of reinventing himself one album after the other and doing tours where he could keep material fresh or keep it evolving. Other players like Sabicas said everything he needed to on his early albums and kept concertizing the same material. Why record that over and over?
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