Creación colectiva por:
Sebastián Martínez
Ever Castellanos
David Gonzalez
Felipe Rey
Asesoria: Julián Valdivieso

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Boris Big Band - El Minotauro (Guillermo Klein) - Live at Boris Club - Septiembre 2011

From Guillermo Klein Quinteto's "Telmo's Tune" (8/18/23) on Sunnyside Records.

The past decade has found composer/pianist Guillermo Klein focusing on large projects. On his latest recording, Telmo’s Tune, Klein looks to recapture a feeling of spontaneity and community that he has missed. So rather than composing heavily conceptual pieces for his flagship Los Guachos ensemble, he chose to assemble a quintet (or, more appropriately, Quinteto) of New York based musicians to capture a more explorative band feeling. 

Klein has made a name for himself as an expert composer, who finds ingenious ways to make the complicated feel natural and evolve. Many of his pieces over the past decade have evolved out of strict studies of musical phenomena that Klein was able to exercise and mold into highly rhythmic and inviting pieces for Los Guachos and other notable ensembles. These endeavors include delivering highly wrought compositions that require time for construction and preparation from the ensembles. 

A break from these procedures would be a liberating experience for Klein, so when playing at New York’s legendary Village Vanguard jazz club during the summer of 2022, Klein recruited old friends and a newcomer to the fold to play a collection of tunes that provides plenty of avenues for expressive dimensions provided by individual decisions on the bandstand. 

The Quinteto that Klein put together included longtime friends and collaborators, like bassist Matt Pavolka, Leo Genovese on Fender Rhodes and other keyboards, and Los Guachos saxophonist Chris Cheek. When Klein was recently introduced to drummer Allan Mednard, they had an instant connection, cementing Mednard’s role as a creative partner in the Quinteto. 

The pieces that Klein and the group honed over their week at the Vanguard were developed in the moment by these great interpreters. After their week at the Vanguard, the Quinteto reconvened once more at Bacque Recording at the end of July to record Telmo’s Tune.

Telmo's Tune

Camello

Guillermo Klein Quinteto - Camello

4.DAWN

3.AIR III

1.AIR I

Superb Starling

From Rebecca Martin & Guillermo Klein's "The Upstate Project" on Sunnyside (4/14).

The Upstate Project

Just As In Spring

Rebecca Martin & Guillermo Klein - Just As In Spring

Walter Morales, piano
Maria Sensi Sellner, conductor
All University Orchestra
November 20, 2011
Carnegie Music Hall

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 (First Movement)

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 4 op. 40
Lucas Debargue
Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, conductor Andrey Boreyko
29.05 2017
Amsterdam Concertgebouw

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