When pianist Guillermo Klein left New York in September 2000, he and his eleven-piece band, Los Guachos, seemed on the brink of jazz-world stardom. But Klein has never paid the market much mind, and although his globe-trotting (first home to Buenos Aires, then to Barcelona, then back to Buenos Aires) has limited his commercial prospects, it's deepened his musical outlook. His compositions—fusions of Reichian minimalism, Ellingtonian lushness, and Argentine folkloric rhythms—now sound more assured, less polished, bolder. At the Village Vanguard for its first New York show in two years, Klein's potent band will give his work its full visceral force.
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