When we talk about fusion in music, what are we talking about, incorporating distinctive elements of one music into another, pollinating or enriching, blending or colonizing? In the history of music, the mixture, the melting pot, is tradition. When styles appear for the first time, they do so already intertwine, adding external elements to be recognized as novel. Thus cool jazz needed the harmonic contributions of the impressionists, who via Bill Evans and Gil Evans (-they were not brothers -Sic-) refreshed be-bop. Also Paco de Lucia drank from John Mclaughlin's guitar, to incorporate diminished scales and other harmonic complexities.. To mention that this is a fusion album may seem obvious, but it is not, this album "Wayne Shorter-Goes Flamenco" is not a fusion album, but rather a pairing and more than a "full house", it is a "straight flush". Both musics keep their essences and their full attributes. It is true that the songs of Wayne Shorter, one of the best composers that modern jazz has ever had, sound here by soleá or seguiriya, but neither the jazzman gets flamenco nor the flamenco gets cool. Each one preserves its own territory and, yes, they fecundate in the trance. It is a win - win.

Lluc Casares; Julian Zafra; Albert Bover; Darryl Rapsoda; Josep Maria Durán

This album is a collective project and a melting pot of artists from very different backgrounds and ages. Up to 30 of the best exponents of our jazz and flamenco, some of them very illustrious, have participated with total dedication, guided by the solvent and why not, brilliant hand of Ramón Olivares, the leader. A musician rocked by jazz, Latin music, flamenco and even opera. Particularly sensitive to the nuances of rhythm, perhaps to the point of obsession, he has conducted the recordings with a firm hand, so that "Oleándole play Wayne Shorter" is a jazz album, a flamenco album and a portrait of several generations of very representative musicians of the national scene.