Jazz Articles about Gabriel Szternsztejn

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Gabriel Szternsztejn: A Different Kind of Fusion

by Javier AQ Ortiz
January 15, 2003

Researching a project for Jazz in Norway, Gabriel Szternsztejn--an Argentinean guitarist living in Spain--appeared featured on a Norwegian website. He is a musician's musician, with a singular compositional voice and a varied conceptual--as well as experiential--background.AAJ Contributor Javier Antonio Quiñones Ortiz spoke with Szternsztejn about his music and self-titled release.

All About Jazz: What brought you out of Argentina?

Gabriel Szternsztejn: In reality, my musical life in Argentina ...

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Gabriel Szternsztejn: Gabriel Szternsztejn

by Javier AQ Ortiz
August 1, 2002

Quick and to the Point: Unique and fascinating guitar led work in improvisational music that eludes genre categorization.

“Sztez," as I can manage Gabriel Szternsztejn's last name, is a bearer of the future of guitar playing roaming alongside the border regions of several musical geographies. Improvisational-minded music, as “Sztez" produces here, immediately remits to jazz. There are, nevertheless, suggestive vistas from elsewhere such as Classical and European derived folk forms--as well as a mixture of percussive effects and ...