Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Coco
2. Con Brasil Adentro
3. Fugue X
4. Broken Web
5. Canon
6. Espejo
7. El Tiempo
8. Tetris
9. Chucaro
10. Bakery
11. Stella
12. Web
13. No Se
14. La Ultima

Disc 2:

1. Brazadas
2. La Futura (Part 1)
3. La Futura (Part 2)
4. La Futura (Part 3)
5. La Futura (Part 4)
6. Hermanos Latinos

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155383 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Customer Reviews

Guillermo Klein Is a Genius . . .
. . . Pure and simple. On this, his third disc, he's honed his little big band South American suite thing to perfection.

He's accomplished a rare thing--he's made the spectacular accessible. There's a wealth of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic sophistication here, but it's always incredibly listenable. Several things stand out. Ben Monder consistently shows why he's perhaps our finest living jazz guitarist (sorry Sco, Pat, and Bill F.). The compositions show a wide range and knowledge of numerous world musics, all seemlessly integrated. The arrangements veritably sing (this may be Klein's strongest suit). And all the musicians seem totally into it.

Exciting, memorable, mesmerizing music. Not to be missed. And a bargain to boot (two discs for the price of one and a half).

Klein has his own thing
Guillermo Klein is a composer. These are not tunes set up as vehicles to blow on,and they do require your attention. As with much beautiful music,these compositions do not reveal themselves in one listen.Instead the listener will be compelled to listen and listen again. God bless him.
This is not to say that I loved every track. One or two sound to me to be rather "exercisey" and at times,the way he repeats melodies in round like fashion is a bit too much for my taste.
On the whole however, the music is surprising, full of life and Kleins own unique arrangements are sublimely original and soulful.
Also, ben Monder has a terrific solo (somewhat buried in the mix) on an absolutely gorgeous composition.(track 6)
The music seems to flow from track to track and the album to my ears seems like A THING,rather than a bunch of "things",unrelated. God bless him again...cant wait to hear more.

Mistura e manda! Guillermo criou o som do "Guacho "
Argentina is the land that gives you Guillermo Klein, who has refined his arranging/compositional skills in considerable fashion since his first release "El Minotauro y Big Van"(and who has included a composition of "O Bruxo", Hermeto Pascoal on this, and previous recording!), to encompass the best of Gil Evans style harmonies mixed with the best of what is known as "River Plate musics" of his homeland, along with a grupo of "craques", excellent improvisers by their incredible melodic solo passages.

This cd , as mentioned is in 2 discs, the second disc featuring a more impressionistic suite, followed by Hermeto's current (as of 2004/2005) concert tour de force "Hermanos Latinos", an obvious tribute from the Brasilian "Wizard" to música latina and delivered with the same passion by the Guillermo Klein Orquestra as Hermeto!
Disc one features the many flavours of the cross pollinization of América Latina and USian jazz,and variety in mood , texture, tempo sets this release apart from typically "neo-conservative" jazz "reparetory company" performances that seem flood the market these days now that "Jazz" has been commodified to fault.
PS ~ As for the name of the recording , it is called "guacho", NOT gaucho, or gaúcho, this is a familiar slang for "buddies" in Argi. A sound "friendly" to the ears, heart, and soul, for certain!
1000 estrellas!