Jazz Articles about Ale Demogli

About Ale Demogli

Live Review

It's Friday night at Thelonious, a second-floor jazz venue in Buenos Aires' tony Palermo district, and the doors are about to open. The staff huddles together, slurping up spaghetti and smoking Lucky Strikes, the quintet works through a few tunes for the sound check, and the cocktail tables and plush couches lie in wait. Like in other cultural hotbeds the world over, jazz has found its niche in Buenos Aires. In a city where the local music, tango, is ...

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Album Review

Ale Demogli / Hill Greene / Oscar Giunta: 3:30

Read "3:30" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
February 25, 2008

This guitar trio--occasionally expanding to a quartet--hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. 3:30 presents a balanced mix of four standards and five originals, including the opening Robin/Ranger “If I Should Lose You," taken up-tempo. Guitarist Ale (Alejandro) Demogli, bassist Hill (Hilliard) Greene and drummer Oscar Giunta make up this unit, with an assist from guest pianist Pepe Angelillo on several tracks. Demogli won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, later attending the New England Conservatory.