Guillermo Klein

Guillermo Klein moers festival 2009

Guillermo Klein (* 1969 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine jazz musician ( piano , guitar , vocals , composition ) and big band leader .

Live and act

After a teacher discovered his musicality, Klein first learned to play the guitar as a child, then the piano. As a teenager he played rock music and attended the conservatory. The late works of Astor Piazzolla had a formative influence on him . In 1990 Klein moved to the United States to study composition at Berklee College of Music from 1990 to 1992 ; only here did he discover the jazz of Duke Ellington and Wayne Shorter . In 1993 he went to New York. Here he founded a seventeen-member big band with whom he appeared in various clubs, including a. in Smalls until 1995. In addition, from 1996 he led the group Los Guachos , which performed weekly in Manhattan and u. a. worked with Bill McHenry , Chris Cheek and Ben Monder . In 1997 El Minotauro was released , his first album as a band leader. In his music he fuses influences from jazz, latin, Argentinean tangos and chacareras , European classical and pop music.

After a long engagement with Los Guachos in the Jazz Standard Club and three albums for Sunnyside Records, Klein returned to Buenos Aires in 2000 ; In 2002 he went to Barcelona to teach. Later he performed with the band Los Guachos and musicians like Diego Urcola , Chris Cheek , Jeff Ballard , Ben Monder, Miguel Zenón and Bill McHenry again in the USA, u. a. in New York's Village Vanguard . In 2010 he released the tribute album Domador de Huellas , on which he played the music of Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón . His Leguizamón project premiered in 2009 at the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival. Currently (2919) he heads the Guillermo Klein Sextet , which includes Chris Cheek, Leo Genovese (piano), Tirman Deus (bandoneon), Matt Pavolka (bass) and Rodrigo Recabarren (drums).

Discography

• El Minotauro with David Barraza , David Boato , Dan Bosshardt , Chris Cheek , Aaron Goldberg , Matt Hong , Sten Höstfalt , Marc Miralta , Richard Nant , Matt Pavolka , Mark Turner , Juan Cruz Urquiza , John Walsh , Johannes Weidenmüller , 1994
• Los Guachos, Vol. 2 with Claudia Acuña , Jeff Ballard, Marlon Browden , Chris Cheek, Fernando Huergo , Tony Malaby , Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Richard Nant, Luciana Souza , Sandro Tomasi , Diego Urcola , Juan Cruz Urquiza, 1999
• Los Guachos III with Jeff Ballard, Marlon Browden, Chris Cheek, Taylor Haskins , Fernando Huergo, Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Richard Nant, Matt Pavolka, Luciana Souza, Diego Urcola, Miguel Zenón, 2000–01
• Una Nave with Pablo Acedo , Enzo Buono , Ricardo Cavalli , Richard Nant, Daniel Piazzolla , Alvaro Torres , Sergio Verdinelli , 2002
• Live in Barcelona with Jeff Ballard, Gorka Benitez , Carme Canela , Chris Cheek, Taylor Haskins, Fernando Huergo, Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Richard Nant, 2004
• Domador De Huellas - Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamón (Sunnyside, 2010)
• Carrera (Sunnyside, 2012) with Richard Nant, Ben Monder, Miguel Zenón, Sandro Tomasi, Taylor Haskins, Chris Cheek, Jeff Ballard, Fernando Huergo, Bill McHenry, Diego Urcola
• Live at the Village Vanguard (2015)
• Rebecca Martin & Guillermo Klein: The Upstate Project (2017)

Web links

• Guillermo Klein and his Leguizamon project (2010) at All About Jazz (accessed July 25, 2010)
• Portrait at All About Jazz (accessed July 25, 2010)
• Portrait (NPR)
• Guillermo Klein at Discogs (English)