GONZALO BERGARA QUINTET PRESENTS THEIR LATEST RELEASE “9”

The all-acoustic Gonzalo Bergara Quintet plays a modern variant of the 1930s Django Reinhardt-inspired sound. As His first CD, Porteña Soledad, was Editor’s Pick in Guitar Player Magazine, and Vintage Guitar Magazine called it a “masterpiece.” Featuring young Violinist Daisy Castro, Andre Todes guitar, Brian Netzley on bass,  and Brian Carmody on cajon. The music is heavily influenced by Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France, as well as the traditional jazz and music of Bergara’s true home, Buenos Aires. “Gonzalo Bergara’s music exists in a way that very little music does. He has lavished such care on every phrase, built each arrangement with such lapidary precision and pared away anything extraneous, the music becomes sculpture. It has weight, density, gravity. This is serious…and deeply moving.” Vintage Guitar Magazine. Tonight Bergara will perform his entire new recording “9”. The following is a stellar review of this masterpiece.

“Gypsy Jazz is an entire world. History, hierarchy, boundaries. That may be why Gonzalo Bergara, though accepted within the ranks of masters of the form, has left it behind. Not to say he won’t join an all-star jam or play a Djangofest. But he has chosen composition over what are the inevitable reiterations of genre performance.

Bergara has always sounded like himself. Fast –bordering on mechanical– streams of 16th notes, strict, rigid, careful even. They’re still there, but now he sounds like nobody else. He has broken free from his own rules. The music reminds us of nothing so much as a Paul Klee watercolor, a line going for a walk. Even as he is creating the line, Bergara is following it. He discovers his composition in the playing.”—Jeff Fiskin.

– Best thing to happen to gypsy jazz in last 20 years – Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois Sur Seine
– Finalist in John Lennon Songwriting Competition 2012
– Best Seller on CDBaby 2012

https://www.gonzalobergara.com/

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