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Pablo Ablanedo
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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Pablo Ablanedo: Christreza
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 ...
read morePablo Ablanedo Octet(o): ReContraDoble
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 ...
read morePablo Ablanedo Octet: Alegr
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 ...
read morePablo Ablanedo Octet Kickstarter Project "Recontradoble"
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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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Pablo Ablanedo Octet Performs at Regattabar on Tuesday, October 11
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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 ...
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