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Santiago Liebson

Santiago Leibson (b. 1988) is a Brooklyn-based, Argentinian-born jazz pianist and composer. 

He has released seven records: Amon (2014), Pendular (2015), Out of Orden (2016), Episodes (2018), Little Pieces (2020), La Cancel (2020), and Aparecerse (2022).

​He has played with many different musicians such as Michael Attias, Francisco Mela, Sean Conly, Gerald Cleaver, Matt Pavolka, Mark Ferber, Oscar Noriega, Drew Gress, Tom Rainey, Marty Ehrlich, Tony Malaby, Michael Sarin, Hery Paz, Kenneth Jimenez, Camila Nebbia, Lim Yang, Nicolás Politzer, Maxi Kirszner, Fermín Merlo and many others. 

 

He has also performed at different places in NY such as Bar Lunatico, Barbes, The Owl (New York), and in some other cities, and countries. In 2019 and 2022 he was part of the music series “Sophia Rossoff Presents” organized by the Abby Whiteside Foundation.

 

In 2014, he was awarded a loan from the Fondo Nacional de las Arts (National Arts Fund) in Argentina to continue his studies at New York University. In 2012, he won a scholarship to participate in the one-week residency program Encuentro Argentino de Improvisación y Composición Musical (National Meeting of Improvisation and Musical Composition).

​He also teaches at the Brooklyn Conservatory and Mark Murphy's Music School. 


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Favourite Recordings of 2022

Read "Favourite Recordings of 2022" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


From an extended all-ECM special last show to close 2022 to this week's favourite shows of 2022 to open a new year. And let me wish you a healthy and productive 2023 while I have the floor. I've picked out music from a goodly number of my favourite releases out of an awful lot of great music released in 2022. The only tracks not on the list are the ones by Maximiliano Kirszner, Javier Moreno and Lisa Marie Simmons, but ...

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Jeong Lim Yang: Zodiac Suite: Reassured

Read "Zodiac Suite: Reassured" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


This is bold music. It bursts with freewheeling, chip-on-the-shoulder modernism. It is Korean-born bassist Jeong Lim Yang's take on pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite (Asch Records, 1945). Yang tags her revisitation of the classic piece Zodiac Suite: Reassured. But a revisitation of Williams' original trio rendition—to prime the ears for the experience of hearing this new version—says there was an awful lot of boldness and a big modern lean going on back in the mid-twentieth century. Williams ...

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Fresh Sound Records
2022

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