The Jazz Historian: John Edward Hasse

by B.D. Lenz
August 17, 2023

Jazz is not simply a style of music; it is also a culture. The impact of this cultural force has had many ups and downs throughout the last century but, undeniably, has been felt worldwide across all nations and all languages. With such a storied past, it's important that an account of its beginnings and those ...

Matias Jarsun

Born: February 4, 1992

Jazz In Marciac 2022

by Martin McFie
September 17, 2022

Le Chapiteau, L'Astrada, Jgo Jazz in Marciac Marciac, Southern France July 22 to August 6, 2022 The 43rd annual Jazz in Marciac festival welcomed a quarter million concert visitors to the 13th century French village of Marciac (population 1,247). Jazz in Marciac comes late and runs long in the European ...

Nicolas Ojeda

Born: November 19, 1975

Born in Córdoba Argentina in 1975, he began his studies of music in 1989. Since 1994 he live in Buenos Aires working actively in several type of projects from funk to avant garde.

He released three Solo albums, "Posibles días en sueños" (2013 PAI records), "MAYO" (2018 PAI records) and "REBOOT [Sesiones Pandémicas]" (2022 ears&eyes records) all available on the platforms, social networks and www.nicolasojeda.com.ar

Gabriel Paiuk

Born: 1975

Gabriel Paiuk is a composer and sound artist whose recent work is focused on the way notions, practices and material aspects of sound mediation inform how listening occurs. His work takes the form of sound installations, compositions for instruments and electronics and collaborations with different disciplines. In the past years his works have been presented at Gallery W139, LI-MA, Gaudeamus and Sonic Acts Festival (Amsterdam), Universit?t Mozarteum (Salzburg) and Willem Twee Kunstruimte-November Music Festival (Den Bosch). His ensemble and solo work has been performed by ?enm, ASKO ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Slagwerk Den Haag, Francesco Dillon, Ekkehard Windrich, Ensemble Modelo62, NeoQuartet, Ensemble 306, Quinteto Sonorama and Alexander Bruck, among others. In 2006 his work Res Extensa was the first sound installation to be awarded the Gaudeamus composition prize

Pedro Aznar

Born: July 23, 1959

Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has a musical experience in jazz, Argentine folk and rock music and has a successful career as a solo artist. He is well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius.

He is a multi-instrumentalist and the author of several books of poetry published in Argentina. He plays an important part in Argentine rock, where in the mid-1970s, he had various appearances with groups like Madre At��mica, ALAS and Pastoral. He became one of four members of Ser�� Gir��n in 1978, one of the most musically influential bands that dominated Argentina's rock circuit for the next four years

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Julian Mekler

Born: June 25, 1992

Julián Mekler is a composer and bassist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Graduated with a Jazz Degree from Manuel de Falla Conservatory, he is an educator currently working in the National University of Arts (UNA-DAM). 2020 Honorary Mention in the National Prizes for the Sciences and the Arts. He participated three times in Centro Cultural Kirchner's Jazz Residencies program where he worked alongside great masters. He is the founder of Buenos Aires based independent record label Isla Desierta Discos, on which he released his two albums, Invasión! (2019) and Vida Útil (2023)

Mat��as Formica

Born: December 11, 1986

Born in the city of La Plata. Flutist, saxophonist, composer and arranger. He began his studies of transverse flute at the age of 14 (year 2000) with maestro Martín Saenz. He studied with Pablo Ledesma, Rodrigo Domínguez, Juan Pablo Di leone, Juan Pablo Arredondo, among others. In 2013 he attended the workshops of popular music in Curitiba (Brazil), participating in the MPB (Brazilian popular music) ensemble in charge of André Marques and the improvisation perception workshop in charge of Lea Freire.  In 2019 he attended the SIM program in New York, and took classes with Tony Malaby, Tim Berne, Ralph Alessi among others. He participated in various projects, as instrumentalist arranger and composer, Matías Formica group, Mingus Project, El Domo, Quinteto Ledesma / Alarcón / Edward / Carracedo / Formica, José Perez Vargas Group (JPV), H.u.M.o, among several others.