by Sergio Veschi (producer Red Redords) (www.redrec.net)
I met Pablo Bobrowicky by chance trough Luis Agudo (Argentine percussionist resident in Italy , who played with luminaries like Elvin Jones, Steve Grossman, Baden Powell, Bobby Watson, Victor Lewis and others).
At that time Luis lived in Santiago de Chile, but he frequently went to Buenos Aires to visit some friends and some of his family that he had there.
One day of September, Luis phones me from "South of the world" in order to tell me that he had recorded some themes with some of his friends and that he would send me the cassette.
I wasn't convinced at all because I wondered who would be interested in an unknown jazz player from Bs. As. But, that was a big mistake, because it was expressed in stamps, melodies, sounds and above all unusual rhythm, and besides, there was a guitarist that played not a lot of notes, but they were the right ones and very expressive too.
In a few words, high level jazz, with rhythms and melodies with African and afrobrasilian inspiration.
It was not an every day post card, but something that could join the sophisticated and the popular at the same time. He comes from a Jewish and Lebanese family.
He has studies classical guitar whit the most important Argentine teachers.
He attends two conservatories in Bs. As.
He is married with a psychoanalyst and he has 2 children.
He has also studied with Jim Hall at New York when he was 23/24 years old, and he has played for more than 3 years whit Minichillo (a battery, plain, marimba, composer, who is one of the jazz pioneers in Argentina ).
When he played in trio with Minichillo he had to carry on a great part of the music on his shoulder.
That experience is recorded in one of our CD: " Baires Blue ", where some melodies can not be easily forgotten.
The following Pablo´s CD is: " WHERE WE ARE " and it's a harvest of standards: Monk, Ellington, Parker, Coltrane, Gillespie, and some original dedications to Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Jim Hall and Tal Farlow.
It's an arrival point that allows to verify the point where Pablo is situated to the instrumental and compositive tradition. It's a point of departure for new exploration.
I think that Pablo´s most important characteristic is his extreme naturallity when he playes, the originality of his phrasals and, as a whole, its great jazz pertinence.
There is everything of the everytime jazz, buy he also has a pertinent lexically introduction of unusual rhythms like Murga, Candombe, Chacarera, Zamba and other rythms of Africa and Afro-India, mainly from areas that confines with Argentina like, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brasil, Bolivia. Pablo plays, according to the expressive needs of the passage. In other words, in relation to rhythm and time he has no problem, he has the melody's set up and the architecture of solo. He doesn't imitates anybody. Obviously, he has, like anyone influences that are dissolved in an original and singular musicality that privileges the feeling for over the technical exhibition. Pablo is very much apreciated by guitarist, buy he is very much listened by common public. He has worked with the following musicians : Luis Agudo ( http://www.redrec.net/agudo.html ), Bobby Watson (http://bobbywatson.com/), Ed Simon, Eric Revis, Pepi Taveira http://www.pepitaveira.com.ar, Norberto Minichillo,BruceCox,FabioMorgera,JasónJackson,SamNewsome
