My new Record with highly accomplished musicians, Grammy Award Winners

My New Album “VIRTUOSO” coming up in 2023!

My new album “Virtuoso” took 2 years in the making and I’m humbled and grateful to share

this special project came to life thanks to the following recording artists of immeasurable musical and cultural impact.

Details

Album “Virtuoso”

20 songs including “Concerto di Santa Lucia- Adagio con Sentimento”, a guitar and orchestra composition with members of the Argentine Theater Symphony Orchestra. 1st Violin, Esteban Rossi. Music director and arranger, Diego Caniggia.

Categories

World Music

Latin Jazz

Classical Contemporary

The Musicians

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Virtuoso Ludwig Quandt, 1st principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and also a member of the Philharmonic Stradivari Soloist Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic Capriccio and the 12 cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

He is Prizewinner in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, the Brahms Competition in Hamburg and the Premio Stradivari in Cremona.

A prestigious virtuoso musician Jorge Pardo is the first flutist to play flamenco together with the legendary Camarón de la Isla and Paco de Lucia .Those collaborations by the young man from 1979 are collected on the records: The Legend of Time and Paco de Lucia plays Manuel de Falla. Self-taught, he grew up in the world of music in Madrid in the 1970s , closely linked to Jazz as an expression of freedom.

At the end of that decade, he shared ideas, music and experiences with the flamenco guitar master Paco de Lucía that lasted for 20 years. From that moment on, Jorge’s flute and soul remain linked to flamenco forever. main linked to flamenco forever. During those years of tours, records and living together; They created a new musical language known as Flamenco Jazz or Flamenco Fusion. This music has a strong flamenco character, which was also nourished by both classical works and world music.

His discography extends beyond the 20 albums in which Pardo is the leader. He has also collaborated and exchanged experiences with other artists from all over the world.

His album “Huellas” , released in 2013, earned him the Best European Musician award from the French Jazz Academy , establishing himself as an international reference in jazz, flamenco and traditional and improvised music.

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Pianist Matt King is a true prodigy of his instrument and has performed and/or recorded with a
Who’s Who of jazz notables, including Chris Potter, Rufus Reid, Benny Golson, Billy Hart, Dave Stryker, Vic Juris, Joe Morello, and Charles McPherson, and Brazilian artists such as Nilson Matta, Claudio Roditi, Leny Andrade, and Claudia Villela. Vocalists as diverse as Phoebe Snow, Curtis Stigers, and Carmen Souza have tapped Matt’s talents, as have blues great Earl King, and banjo master Tony Trischka. King has also toured extensively with the legendary jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears, and with late great jazz guitarist Chuck Loeb, for whom he also served as musical director.

A Composition Fellowship recipient from the NJ State Council on the Arts, he has garnered numerous awards for his playing, composing, and arranging. Matt was a Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition semi-finalist, and won the Great American Jazz Piano Competition in 2000. He has performed with four symphony orchestras in the US, appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America, and played Holland’s renowned North Sea Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, and Tokyo’s Cotton Club.

Six times Grammy-winning bassist Oscar Stagnaro is considered one of today’s top players in the world and a pioneer of bass education. An Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, where he helped to found the Latin bass studies program, Oscar continues to record and tour extensively. He has played with many music greats, including Paquito D’Rivera, Tiger Okoshi, Bob Mintzer, Freddy Hubbard, Claudio Roditi, as well as the Boston Pops. He is also the co-author of Latin Bass Book.

As Berklee’s academic director, he leads Berklee Latino, Berklee’s first-ever program to be taught in Spanish. Oscar is the co-author of the “Latin Bass Book” published by Sher Music, a complete work on how to play bass lines in the Afro Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and various South American styles.

Multi-Grammy Nominated and Winning Drummer, Eric Harland is the most “In demand drummer” of his generation. He has already been on over 500 recordings and multiple film scores at his age of 46. Eric has been recognized in the Boston Globe, New York Times, JazzTimes, Modern Drummer, All About Jazz, The New Yorker, DownBeat, L’uomo Vogue and other prominent publications.

It has been his privilege to share the stage with masters such as Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, MyCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Terence Blanchard, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Savion Glover, SFJAZZ Collective and many others, as well as todays up and coming artist like Esperanza Spalding, Jane Monheit, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Stacie Orrico, Robert Glasper and so on. His current list of performing groups are “JAMES FARM” with Joshua Redman, “PRISM” with Dave Holland and Kevin Eubanks, “SANGAM” with Charles Lloyd and Zakir Hussain, “Charles Lloyd New Quartet”, “OVERTONE” with Dave Holland, Jason Moran, Chris Potter and “VOYAGER” Eric’s own widely recognized group. But Eric doesn’t stop there, he also manages to fit in many collaborations with world renowned artist like Les Claypool “PRIMUS”, “DISPATCH” the band, KRS1, John Mayer, Gigi Hadid, Spike Lee, Steve Miller, Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson from “AMERICAN IDOL” and etc.

Eric Harland was the Resident Artistic Director at the SFJAZZ Center for the 2014-2016 Season. Also was Artist in Resident at the Monterey Jazz Festival 2014 Season. Harland also had the supreme privilege of being invited and attending President Barack Obama’s 2016 White House State Dinner in honor of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Through Harland’s extensive travels, he has come to realize that “The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.” When Eric Harland contributes… his intention is therefore to create the highest musical experience so that every listener may have insight… into the musical moment.

An epithet about Cesar

by Horacio Malvicino, world-known guitarist of the legendary Astor Piazzolla, who has worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Gary Burton, Miles Davis, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Susana Rinaldi, Milva, Tanguito, Los Chalchaleros, Palito Ortega, and Plácido Domingo throughout a distinguished music career.

Cesar has lived his entire life as a natural talent of the guitar. From his hardships to his heart, his whole world is shaped in the form of a guitar. It is amazing to me, knowing how cut-throat and competitive the music business is; how he manages to slip through the cracks and thereby became a masterful musician. He got his big professional break at 19 through the help of the unforgettable music giant: Astor Piazzolla, the father of contemporary tango. We were performing together at the Opera Theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was at the time that Astor listened to Cesar’s demo tape and decided to give him a hand with his career. Since then, Cesar has played around the world.

Perhaps the most incredible story I know of Cesar and his devotion to the guitar was when he first left Argentina and went to Spain with only eight dollars in his pocket, his plane ticket and, of course, his guitar. He was hoping to play with flamenco master guitarist Paco de Lucia, who met him a few months earlier and after listening to Cesar’s playing told him that if he ever made it to Europe, to contact him. Well, after Cesar arrived in Madrid Airport with little more than his dreams, Immigration promptly decided to deport him. He was in a cell for six hours waiting for them to put him back on a plane, when he managed to escape long enough to run to a pay phone and call Paco. As fate would have it, Paco answered the phone. Paco immediately went to the airport where he talked the custom agents into letting Cesar into the country. Since then, Cesar has performed all through Europe as a solo artist. He also performed with members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, at a very young age a brief stint at the Frank Sinatra, opened for Al Dimeola, recorded with producer Bebu Silvetti (Luis Miguel, Placido Domingo), Dominik Camardella (Santana, Ottmart Liebert) under the management of Alex Zara (Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson) and Hollywood legend Xavier Cugat. So now comes the uncontrollable part. The time that you, the listener, decide if the few dollars that you invested was a worthwhile investment. I am sure it will be a very happy ending.

Cesar has always had his own spirit and his own unique style. His emotion combined with his unbelievable speed and clear technique gives the music an accomplished sound without losing its Latin roots.

Go with God Cesar, I wish you always the best. Enjoy!