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Pablo Ablanedo

Pablo Ablanedo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a composer, pianist, and music educator. In 1996, he graduated with a diploma in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where he took part in the last courses taught by the legendary trumpet player Herb Pomeroy. Pablo's artistic development owes much to the Argentinian pianist Susana Bonora, who he has been working with since the '80s.

In 1999, he joined forces with a diverse group of jazz players to form the Pablo Ablanedo Octet. In the decade since the group has recorded three albums on Fresh Sound New Talent Records. From Down There (2001) and Alegría (2004) received 4 and 4½ stars, respectively, in DownBeat Magazine. JazzMan Magazine (France) gave the multi-artist and big band project The Sound of New York Underground (2004) its highest rating CHOC. Pablo's work has also been commissioned by Paquito D'Rivera to be performed by Germany's NDR Big Band. In 2013, on the record label CNM (Creative Nation Music), he released the album ReContraDoble with his Boston based Octet(o). In 2019 Newvelle-Records asked Pablo to regroup the NY ensemble to record Chistreza to be released in March 2020.

A non-exhaustive list of players in Pablo's recordings includes Jenny Scheinman, Ben Monder, the siblings Anat and Avishai Cohen, Chris Cheek, Jerome Sabbagh, Phil Grenadier, Fernando Huergo, Diego Urcola, and Franco Pinna, as well as Aaron Goldberg and Miguel Zenon featuring in the NY big band album.

Pablo lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, the painter Lucile Chaurin Ablanedo, their twin daughters, and their basset hound Tosca.

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Album Review

Pablo Ablanedo: Christreza

Read "Christreza" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This LP clocks in at around 38-minutes and is a bit of a tease since it progresses rather quickly and may leave many listeners wanting more. Here, Argentine-reared pianist/composer/educator Pablo Ablanedo's compositional gifts often take on cinematic film scoring intonations and developments, executed with jazz luminaries who the artist met while attending the Berklee College of Music in 1999. Owing to his heritage, the leader infuses subtle Latin jazz foreground grooves into several movements, whereas the opener “La ...

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Pablo Ablanedo Octet(o): ReContraDoble

Read "ReContraDoble" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Executed and stylized within the heart of Tango, Pablo Ablanedo's octet features distinguished jazz trumpeter Phil Grenadier and other prominent Boston-based musicians. The Argentinean composer/pianist incisive arrangements, charted with layered horns and contrapuntal theme-building exercises are contoured by breezy choruses, buoyant jazz improv and the inherent festivities often resident within the Latin jazz element. Ablanedo's compositions contain a broad dynamic scope in concert with the percussionist's driving cadences and multi-hued shadings; rays of sunshine intersect these alluring works.Ablanedo's ...

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Pablo Ablanedo Octet: Alegr

Read "Alegr" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Quick and to the Point: Thriving emotive and intelligent musical richness.

In the photo included with Alegría, the Pablo Ablanedo Octet resembles a nerdy and decidedly square bunch. Their music, however, has no equal in the market, patterning highly urbane musical concepts and compositions, coupled with advanced ensemble work and superior performances from all musicians. The leader’s ethnic background is unmistakable, although one must leave any preconceptions about the possibilities afforded by such a coalescence of jazz, classical ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Pablo Ablanedo Octet Kickstarter Project "Recontradoble"

Pablo Ablanedo Octet Kickstarter Project "Recontradoble"

Source: Pablo Ablanedo

Cambridge, MA: On March 9th, Buenos Aires-born, Cambridge-based composer and pianist Pablo Ablanedo had launched a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter.com to help record and produce his third album with his group, the Pablo Ablanedo Octet. After releasing two records on the Barcelona-based Fresh Sound New Talent label, Ablanedo and his group have decided to record and release their new record, which will be called Recontradoble, independently. Ablanedo is asking his fans and friends to come and be part of making ...

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Performance / Tour

Pablo Ablanedo Octet Performs at Regattabar on Tuesday, October 11

Pablo Ablanedo Octet Performs at Regattabar on Tuesday, October 11

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts

Argentinean composer and pianist Pablo Ablanedo and his octet perform at the Regattabar Jazz Club at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, Cambridge, on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the show are $15 and can be purchased online. Ablanedo has a distinctive sound that is influenced by his Argentinian roots and by American jazz artists Bill Evans and Gil Evans, Astor Piazzola of Argentina and Egbuto Gismaonta of Brazil. His unique use of various instruments in ...

There are times in the score when the music feels so lithe and delicate and tenuous that the charts feel as if they are literally angular and elastic, and the notes inhabit the musical tapestry forming a kind of shifting sand in the rhythm section. Ironically it is also this section of the ensemble that is the glue that holds all the other musical instruments together. This is especially true of the composer’s pianism that is full of rhythmic and harmonic subtlety that seems to be barely there, but at the same time forms the diaphanous fabric of the music that flows throughout the background—and sometimes the foreground—of each of the musical compositions and interpretations. There is no tango, no waltz, no chacarera, no Milonga, but all of these rhythms and forms are spectrally present throughout. In fact the music of Mr. Ablanedo seems to be written and performed in four dimensions—those that are obvious to the mind’s ear and those that are suggested and understood only by the spirit and its soul. Such is the beauty and power of this music. (5 Stars) by Raul da Gama Latin Jazz Network (Canada)

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Christreza

Newvelle Records
2020

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ReContraDoble

Creative Nation Music
2013

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The Sound of New York...

Fresh Sound New Talent
2004

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Alegría

Fresh Sound New Talent
2003

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From Down There

Fresh Sound New Talent
2001

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ReContraDoble

From: ReContraDoble
By Pablo Ablanedo

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