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Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaba's Tokyo Adagio on Serenade To The City on WLCK

If you listen overnights on WCLK to Serenade To The City with Aaron Cohen, you'll be hearing cuts off of the new Impulse! release Tokyo Adagio, featuring bassist Haden and Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. They collaborated on several recordings but this 2005 live date at Blue Note Tokyo is considered their very best together.

You can purchase Tokyo Adagio from Amazon at the link below and a portion of the proceeds will go towards the continued non-commercial operation of WCLK.

From Amazon.com product review:

Tokyo Adagio is a posthumous release, but one that Charlie Haden ardently desired prior to his passing in July 2014. The album marks the pinnacle of the American bassists collaborations with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the pianist of genius he first encountered in Cuba in 1986, and with whom Charlie immediately developed a bond bordering on the telepathic. Several recordings the famous Montreal Tapes (1998), the studio albums Nocturne (2001) and Land of the Sun (2004) are evidence of the deep concordance of these two musicians, but no recording had yet captured the communal purity with which the duo displayed for the audience at the Blue Note Tokyo on consecutive evenings in the Spring of 2005.

Ten years on, Impulse!/Universal Music Classics are happy to publish this unique eyewitness account with a title to Charlies taste, since he often referred to himself as an adagio guy. Tokyo Adagio is both a tribute and a testament to the nobility of his inimitable grace; through this release the spirit of Charlie Haden will endure.