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Jorge Lopez Ruiz
El Grito

Beatball

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- The Analog Vault // Essential Listening -

A seminal South American jazz record that stands as Jorge López Ruiz’s magnum opus. Crafted by the Buenos Aires-born double bassist and composer in 1967 as a protest suite against Argentina’s oppressive military dictatorship, this album was initially banned at the time of its release. But nothing could have silenced El Grito (translated as The Scream), a courageous concept album of cinematic arrangements that embodies Ruiz’s revolutionary ideas through hard bop-leaning, big band jazz. 

While professedly a fiery political statement, El Grito also functions as a swinging and dramatic LP for cool hepcats to dance to. From the urgency of "M.A.B. - Amor" to the sublimely emotive "Tendré El Mundo”, Ruiz leads his virtuoso orchestra through a passionate whirlwind that will sweep the listener off their feet. - The Analog Vault

Label: CBS // Beatball, Light in the Attic

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Black Vinyl

Released: 2021 (Original: 1976)

Genre: Jazz

Style:Modal, Post Bop, Big Band