JAZZIZ Critics' Picks - Mark Holston (#1) Neil Tesser (#5) for EL ECO with Guillermo Nojechowicz "Puerto de Buenos Aires 1933"  

The band has performed at:
• Dominican Republic Jazz Festival featuring:
Marco Pignataro, Brian Lynch, Helio Alves, Kim Nazarian & Fernando Huergo
 • Buenos Aires Jazz Festival (Argentina)
 • Curacao Jazz Festival (Netherlands Antilles)
 • Blue Note (NYC)
 • Scullers (Boston)
 • Philadelphia Museum of Art
• NPR’s Jazz Set with host Dee Dee Bridgewater (broadcast by more than 100 radio stations across the US) 
• Telluride Jazz Celebration in Colorado with guest Airto Moreira. We shared the stage at Telluride with Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard and Nneenna Freelon.  



• EL ECO with drummer-composer-educator Guillermo Nojechowicz

A Brazilian Argentinean jazz ensemble based in Boston, New York City, and Oberlin, Ohio, EL ECO digs deep into straight-ahead jazz and bebop, punctuated by a deep respect for the complexity of Latin and Afro-Cuban rhythms, darkened by echoes of Piazzolla. 

Puerto de Buenos Aires 1933, their new CD just released by Zoho Music was inspired by a remnant of Guillermo’s family history, the passport that his grandmother carried when she fled Warsaw for Argentina in 1933 along with her small son. Crossing Europe by train, they left behind everything familiar to face the unknown in Buenos Aires – a trip that spared them from the Holocaust, when so many others in their community later perished.

The Latin jazz suite that chronicles their long uncertain journey is the centerpiece of Puerto de Buenos Aires 1993 – a record that jazz vocalist Luciana Souza has called “beautiful and important.”  ​​ 

A leader of Boston’s Latin jazz scene, El ECO received national acclaim in a broadcast performance on National Public Radio’s “Jazz Set” with host and Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. Performances have included the Curação International Jazz Festival in the Netherland Antilles, the Freihofer Jazz Festival in Saratoga Springs, the Telluride Jazz Celebration in Colorado, and the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in Guillermo’s native Argentina.  Recently Guillermo was featured on NPR with host Marco Werman for “The World.”

Guillermo is also an international clinician and educator. He performed with his students and guest artist Joshua Redman through a program with Harvard University and with former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky at Google Headquarters in Cambridge. Traveling in 2012 and 2016 to the Panama Jazz Festival – where jazz pianist Danilo Perez is Artistic Director – he and his students performed and he taught master class workshops in Brazilian jazz.​

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