Biography
Pianist Guillermo Klein left Argentina for Boston in 1990, enrolling at Berklee College of Music. Three years afterward he settled in New York and assembled an inventive 17-piece big band that held a weekly Sunday-night residency at the subterranean venue Smalls across the whole of 1995. Later the Jazz Standard presented the same ensemble with an ongoing Monday-night slot that lasted several months. Klein also worked and recorded with the ten-piece group los Guachos, whose lineup included Bill McHenry, Chris Cheek, Ben Monder, and additional players. Although the ensemble’s first recording for Candid Records never saw release, Sunnyside issued Guachos II in 1999. Klein’s return to Argentina in September 2000 left a noticeable gap in the New York jazz community.
He joined saxophonist Rodrigo Dominguez and trumpeter Juan Cruz de Urquiza on the 2005 Sunnyside album Nave. The ambitious 2010 release Domador de Huellas found him reworking compositions by the celebrated Argentine poet and folk musician Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón. The following year he recorded Bienestan with pianist Aaron Goldberg, then issued Carrera in 2012 with his los Guachos ensemble. Live at the Village Vanguard, captured in concert, appeared in 2014. Klein revisited the los Guachos project for the 2016 album Los Guachos V and, in 2017, joined singer/songwriter Rebecca Martin for The Upstate Project.
He joined saxophonist Rodrigo Dominguez and trumpeter Juan Cruz de Urquiza on the 2005 Sunnyside album Nave. The ambitious 2010 release Domador de Huellas found him reworking compositions by the celebrated Argentine poet and folk musician Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón. The following year he recorded Bienestan with pianist Aaron Goldberg, then issued Carrera in 2012 with his los Guachos ensemble. Live at the Village Vanguard, captured in concert, appeared in 2014. Klein revisited the los Guachos project for the 2016 album Los Guachos V and, in 2017, joined singer/songwriter Rebecca Martin for The Upstate Project.
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