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Marcos Varela

Musician/composer Marcos Varela began his musical career at the age of 17. He started playing the bass in his native Houston, TX while attending the highly acclaimed High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, a school which has been attended by many greats in music and art today. Some alumni include Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Beyonce Knowles, Brian-Micheal Cox, Eric Harland, Chris Dave, Matt Mullenweg (wordpress inventor) and many more. Inspired by such talented mentors and peers this led Marcos to want to pursue a career in music. Marcos quickly gained recognition in the Houston jazz scene and by the age of 18 was one of the top honorees of the NFAA International Jazz award and a IAJE Clifford Brown/Stan Getz All-Star fellow

Lauren Lee: Windowsill

by Jerome Wilson
January 5, 2020

Lauren Lee is a talented pianist and composer, and a singer with a flexibility and sense of adventure in her voice which give her music a light, optimistic feel, although repeated listening reveals it has surprising depth and complexity. She brings elements of art song into the realm of pop-jazz as if she were Meredith Monk ...

Trumpeter Markus Rutz Album Release Concert at PianoForte Studios in Chicago set for October 11th

October 8, 2019

Blueprints – Figure One: Frameworks reveals the heart of an artist and his appreciation for the influences that surround him. Tickets for this exclusive 7:30pm event are available now and directly from Pianoforte Studios. Pianoforte Studios 1335 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605 ph. (312) 291-0000 Brice Winston is featured ...

Listeners' Favorites

by Marc Cohn
May 27, 2019

Time for tunes that moved you from Shows 361-370. Our concerts in Baton Rouge clearly resonated with you. Many of the most commented upon tracks featured artists that performed in Baton Rouge this Winter and Spring. Works for me. Just because you may be out-of-town shouldn't phase you though. We tally all of our listener comments ...

Blue Note 50th Anniversaries for March

by Marc Cohn
March 7, 2019

We're off to Van Gelder's for Blue Note sessions from March 1969, including tracks originally from the Elvin Jones LP The Prime Element with Lee Morgan, George Coleman, and Joe Farrell. And there's Blue Note #7 from 1939, as well as 21st century music that grabbed my ears. Enjoy the show. Next week: listener favorites and ...

San Ygnacio

By Marcos Varela

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: I Should Care; Colinas De Santa Maria; Mitsuru; Lullaby for Imke; Sister Gemini; Pepper; Red on Planet Pluto; Looking for the Light; Picturesque; Where the Wild Things Are (Intro); Where the Wild Things Are.

Meilana Gillard: Dream Within A Dream

by Ian Patterson
June 22, 2017

There are eight years between Ohio-born, Belfast-based tenor saxophonist Meilana Gillard's impressive debut, Day One (Inner circle Music, 2009), and her follow-up, Dream Within A Dream (Lyte Records, 2017) -simply way too long a gap for a musician and composer of her talents. Her debut, backed by Nir Felder, Tyshawn Sorey, Marcos Varela and Sam Barsh, ...

Marcos Varela: San Ygnacio

by Luigi Sforza
February 10, 2017

Possente il suono, profonda e incisiva la cavata, decisa e vistosamente virtuosa la tecnica del giovane contrabbassista, compositore, arrangiatore e produttore Marcos Varela che in San Ygnacio mette in mostra le sue spiccate qualità strumentali scegliendo di declinare il suo talento all'interno di una langue esplicitamente post bop. In assoluta coincidenza con il credo estetico del ...

San Ygnacio

By Marcos Varela

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: I Should Care; Colinas De Santa Maria; Mitsuru; Lulaby For Imke; Sister Gemini; Pepper; Red On Planet Pluto; Looking For The Light; Picturesque; Where The Wild Things Are (Intro); Where The Wild Things Are.

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Marcos Varela

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 28, 2016

01. Kenny Barron -Book of Intuition (Impulse -2016). Adoro questo disco e questo trio che ho avuto la fortuna di sentire diverse volte dal vivo. Barron è uno dei miei pianisti preferiti sin da quando da giovane lo ascoltavo nei lavori di Stan Getz, nel suo disco Live at Bradley's e in duo con Charlie ...