Pablo Ziegler, in Bebop Club

His compositions represent the vibrant musical hybrid of traditional tango, American Jazz and European art music. After belonging to the legendary Astor Piazzolla Quintet for ten years, being part of iconic recordings such as “Tango: Zero Hour”, “La Camorra” and “Central Park Concert”, Ziegler has led his own groups for more than twenty-five years, refining and reimagining the limits of modern tango. Recent years have seen him at Carnegie Hall, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Muziekgebourw, Bozar, Victoria Hall, among others. Ziegler will bring to his concerts at Bebop the program from his album “Tango Jazz”, which was the winner of the Grammy Awards in the Latin Jazz category, which includes Piazzolla’s iconic songs and his own compositions with exciting improvisations by each of his musicians. , full of exciting melodies, and porteño aromas of Buenos Aires.

Quique Sinesiguitar

Walter Castrobandoneon

Horacio “Mono” Hurtadodouble bass

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the pianist Pablo Ziegler, winner of a Latin Grammy, began playing classical repertoire at the age of 14. In the early 60s, influenced by bebop and dixieland, he began playing jazz. It was at that time that he created the Pablo Ziegler Terceto, which reflected his musical history through jazz arrangements of classical music.

In 1978, he was invited to join Astor Piazzolla’s second Quintet, with whom he played for 10 years, throughout Europe, Japan and the United States, at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival, Sapporo Jazz Festival, Central Park Summer Stage, and the Istanbul Festival among others.

Pablo Ziegler He formed his own Quartet for Nuevo Tango in 1990 that combined classic tango rhythms with jazz improvisations, something that was not common at that time in the tango lexicon. Renee Vargas Vera of La Nación said: “PABLO ZIEGLER is one of Piazzolla’s authorized voices. However, as a creative musician, he knows how to find his own voice to transmit it, to recreate it in its various facets. But, also, as a composer who was able to prolong Piazzollana aesthetics and reveling in it as a consecrated and sure-successful brand, he has preferred to delve into the tango memory to take a retrospective look full of unction, and rescue old voices that he transfigures into new forms and dimensions.” – UG Mauro del Diario La Capital said: Although he has a solid classical training, Ziegler, after dedicating himself to jazz, achieved international recognition by joining Astor Piazzolla’s legendary quintet. His natural talent for urban music and his jazz experience allowed him to be one of the few pianists who cultivates improvisation in the field of tango.

In 1998, he recorded “Tango Romance” for BMG, with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Other orchestral performances have been with the Royal Philharmonic of London, the Sydney Symphony, the Stavanger Symphonic Orchestra of Norway, the Filarmónica de México, the Banda Sinfónica de Estado de Sao Pablo de Brazil etc.

In 1999, his performance at Carnegie Hall with his Quintet for Nuevo Tango was recorded and aired for six months on PBS. Her guests on this occasion included the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Gary Burton, Ryota Komatsu and Argentine singers Maria Graña and JATrelles. Also in 1999 he was invited to participate in “Music of the Americas” for The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, where he was honored with a bronze plaque, for his contribution to the evolution of tango.

The Mayor of New Orleans also honored him for his artistic quality, with the title of Honorary Citizen of the City of New Orleans. Other honors include Steinway & Sons New York naming him a Steinway Artist in 1998.

Since 2002, Pablo Ziegler has performed with his quartet once a year, at Jazz Standard in NY with special guests, such as Paquito D’Rivera, Stefon Harris, David Sánchez, Randy Brecker, Gil Goldstein, James Carter, Edmar Castañeda, Dave Samuels, Harry Allen, Kenny Garrett, Nestor Torres and Terell Stafford. He has also performed at the 2003 Piano Festival in Manchester, Great Britain, and has already made 17 European tours to date. Maestro Ziegler’s performances in recent seasons have included several major venues and festivals in the United States including Carnegie Hall (as part of “the JVC Jazz Festival” with guest artists such as Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Lovano and Gary Burton), the Savannah Music Festival, Blue Note, Chamber Music Albuquerque, American Theatre, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, the University of Texas-Austin, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in Maryland, the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with pianist Christopher O’Riley in duo with “Los Tangueros”, the New World Symphony in Miami, New York’s Knitting Factory with Emanuel Ax, the Cape May Music Festival in New Jersey, the San Francisco Jazz Festival and the Aspen Music Festival among many others. Important international engagements have included the Umbria Jazz Festival (with special guests such as Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Lovano and Richard Galliano), Theaters in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (Israel), twice at the Lapataia Jazz Festival in Punta del Este (Uruguay), and the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), as performances in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, England, Sweden, Slovenia, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy and Greece with the Pablo Ziegler Trio.

Pablo Ziegler Not only does he give concerts, but he is also an enthusiastic educator. He has given master classes at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and workshops at the Rhythmic Copenhagen Conservatory and the Arhus Conservatory (Denmark). In the Spring of 2007 he did a residency at Indiana University-Latin American Music Center, the University of Texas, Austin, the University of Maryland, Washington DC and later at the University of Iowa.

In 2002 and 2004, Maestro Ziegler was the Musical Director of the complete version of the Operita “Maria de Buenos Aires”, by A. Piazzolla, where he also played. The first was an Italian production in Ravenna and Bologna, with 10 presentations and the second was a Dutch production, which toured Holland, Belgium and Hungary for a month.

In 2007 two new CDs were released, live, one at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam with guitarist Quique Sinesi and Walter Castro on bandoneon “Buenos Aires Report” (Saphrane), and another live recording as well, but in Jazz Standard ” Tango & all that Jazz” – with the Pablo Ziegler Quartet with Stefon Harris, as guest (Kind of Blue). Pablo Ziegler’s discography also includes “Tango Romance” with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (BMG/RCA); Los Tangueros: the tangos of Astor Piazzolla played by Ziegler and Emmanuel Ax (piano duo) (all arrangements by Ziegler) (SONY); “Asphalt”: Street Tango (BMG/RCA); “Pablo Ziegler Quintet for New Tango” recorded with guest Joe Lovano (BMG/RCA); and “Bajo Cero” with Quique Sinesi and Walter Castro (MDR) which won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango Album in 2005. Pablo Ziegler also appears as a guest on two Gary Burton recordings, “Piazzolla Reunion” and “Libertango”, both on the Concord Jazz label, as well as on an album “The Lost Days”, by renowned mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, as pianist and arranger, in 2003 BMG/RCA.

Maestro Pablo Ziegler’s music is being played and recorded by many musicians around the world. (Source: Real Book Argentina)