Jazz Articles about Guy Klucevsek

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 ...

Guy Klucevesk and Alan Bern: Accordance

by Glenn Astarita
March 1, 2001

What a delightful album Accordance is! Here, classically trained accordionists Guy Klucevesk and Alan Bern go head to head for a series of inspiring duets, consisting of seventeen works that span Polka, modern jazz, Eastern European motifs and ethnocentric grooves. And while many modern jazz aficionados are familiar with Klucevesk’s active participation in trumpeter Dave Douglas’ wonderful “Charms of the Night Sky” quartet, the artist has also been a vital component of New York City’s – Downtown Scene, not to ...