Jazz Articles about Guy Klucevsek

Guy Klucevsek: Dancing on the Volcano

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
August 5, 2009

With good reason, Guy Klucevsek is considered one of the preeminent accordionists in new music. Firmly grounded in tradition, he can play all the styles associated with the instrument with a dizzying facility: fleet melodic runs, droning harmonic accompaniment and solid rhythmic support. No mere technician, Klucevsek's also a dynamic improviser--a quick-witted, deep listener, able to find and express a tune's essence. Dancing on the Volcano collects music commissioned for dance and silent film, in addition to other originals, and ...

Guy Klucevsek & Alan Bern: Notefalls

by C. Michael Bailey
June 17, 2007

It is almost like a joke, “What do you get when you cross two accordionists? In this case, Notefalls. Accordionists Guy Klucevsek and Alan Bern join forces for this unique duet recording where the two alchemists eutect church organs, bagpipes and pianos in an extravaganza that licks every corner of the musical planet.

The disc opens with a two-part suite, “Deep Blue C, where Klucevsek and Bern evoke medieval church music blended with Polish wedding music and Zydeco. ...

Guy Klucevsek: The Well-Tampered Accordion

by Andrew Durkin
February 15, 2005

I got one of my first impressions of the social status of the accordion from an article that appeared twenty or so years ago in Time magazine. The writer decried'--in laughable terms'--the “menace'? of the instrument, the sound of which he found abhorrent, given all its usual associations with the (underrated) genre of the polka. I can't remember many of the details of the piece, other than a vague sense that it was probably a response to the accordion's contemporaneous ...

Guy Klucevsek and Alan Bern: Accordance

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 2001

The Accordion is not just for Polkas anymore.

I've got to hand it to these guys; they have a sense of humor. The titles of these original pieces are a hoot. The music has a pretty good sense of humor, also. Klucevsek and Bern draw from every tradition that includes accordions to produce a multicultural kaleidoscope of music. All of this on that much maligned, highly unlikely instrument, the accordion. This is certainly far from the first accordion discs that ...