George Adams in the Central Café Photo: Ernesto Walfisch
Central The piano is a publishing project. Materialize in a bilingual book with a CD / DVD containing new music recorded for the occasion by some of the musicians who played the piano.
In late July 2008 during a concert by the quartet of the great musicians Antonio Serrano and Javier Colina in the Central Café, I realize that is not on stage piano ever. I talk to a partner's Café, Nanya Blázquez, and she tells me that after so many years of life had to make a deep restoration or purchase a new one. A few months ago that he had been replaced by a new Yamaha C5.
The music of Don Pullen, Randy Weston, George Cables, Barry Harris and many others who had heard since the late eighties in Madrid's best jazz club key vertical drilled me in the Plaza del Ángel. Where's the piano? Nanye explained Eduardo Muñoz, the technician who had maintained throughout his life, he had taken in exchange for the loan of a piano until the Café buy a new one. I thought I'd make it up immediately for the peace of piano and the memory of fans. Nany understood perfectly my new mission and gave me contact with Eduardo. When I did, was that the piano had been restored and sold. After insisting, I got that Edward I contacted the owner, which I had to give a piano like that, but in better conditions, to accede to barter. So it was that November 12, 2008 enters the piano in my studio. That same night I heard Barry Harris at the Teatro Real.
Around the same time Felix Hazen died in Madrid, driver of a dynasty of builders and distributors of pianos originally from Holland and planted in Madrid since 1814. In his shop in Las Rozas Central Coffee Cart, 30 September 1988, the Yamaha MIDI C3 E
contact their heirs and successors of the family business allows me to gather some information and contact the director of Yamaha Iberian Felix Hazen son, who along with Marisa and Anna Hazen and David Robles show interest in this project and send one of their technicians, Luis Felipe Serrano, to conduct an intonation of the piano and an assessment of its current state, which ultimately discourages its restoration. Yamaha's participation will be key to the development of some of the chapters of the book.
Gerardo Perez, a founding partner of The Café Central is providing key information about the piano. Deliver me photographs, press cuttings and a lot of valuable facts for the book's construction. Chema García Martínez, jazz critic, from the outset was enthusiastic about the project and provides reviews of concerts Central published in newspapers, souvenirs, contacts, and even introduced me to Larry Willis and Brad Mehldau, piano players who played Central's piano, to explain this tribute in book form.
Javier de Cambra, Pedro Calvo, jazz critics, told me valuable stories, some familiar and others that remain hidden in the piano strings. Jose Ramon Rubio, writer, jazz critic and former director of TVE hearings, have left after years of writing, is stimulated by the project and handed me his magnificent contribution to the book, an article entitled 'Two-Headed Monster. " Wade Matthews, translator of books on art and jazz musician who, among other places, has played in the Central, has collaborated with the translation of the dossier outlining the book into English. Ernesto Walfisch, prominent photographer is navigating between their negative files to save iconic images of the first stage of the Central.
Juan García de Cubas
If you are interested in participating in the project have relevant information about the Central piano, or want to know more information about it, you can contact via this mail: Info@lootro.com
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