PEDRO GIRAUDO TANGO QUARTET
**Price includes brunch, music and a drink.**
Originally from Córdoba Argentina, Pedro Giraudo moved to New York City in 1996. Since then he has become a highly versatile bassist, composer and arranger, performing in a wide variety of
musical projects, both his own award winning Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra, his Pedro Giraudo Tango Ensembles, and as a member of numerous prominent groups, ranging from tango to jazz.
Pedro Giraudo has collaborated with Grammy award winner Pablo Ziegler, 9 time Grammy award winner Paquito D'Rivera, and Dizzy Gillespie's protégé William Cepeda, as well as Tango meets Jazz' guests: Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garret, Regina Carter, Nestor Torres, Miguel Zenon among many others. In 2014 Ruben Blades' CD "Tangos" on which he recorded bass won two Grammys Awards (Best Tango Album & Best Latin Pop). Pedro Giraudo has also been the musical director of Mariela Franganillo Company's "Tango Connection" and "Tango ...
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PEDRO GIRAUDO TANGO QUARTET
**Price includes brunch, music and a drink.**
Originally from Córdoba Argentina, Pedro Giraudo moved to New York City in 1996. Since then he has become a highly versatile bassist, composer and arranger, performing in a wide variety of
musical projects, both his own award winning Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra, his Pedro Giraudo Tango Ensembles, and as a member of numerous prominent groups, ranging from tango to jazz.
Pedro Giraudo has collaborated with Grammy award winner Pablo Ziegler, 9 time Grammy award winner Paquito D'Rivera, and Dizzy Gillespie's protégé William Cepeda, as well as Tango meets Jazz' guests: Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garret, Regina Carter, Nestor Torres, Miguel Zenon among many others. In 2014 Ruben Blades' CD "Tangos" on which he recorded bass won two Grammys Awards (Best Tango Album & Best Latin Pop). Pedro Giraudo has also been the musical director of Mariela Franganillo Company's "Tango Connection" and "Tango
Recuerdo" and performed with U.S.'s most prominent tango ensembles including Forever Tango', Hector Del Curto's Eternal Tango, Fernando Otero's X-Tango and Daniel Binelli's Tango Metropolis'. He has participated in numerous jazz and music festivals throughout the North America, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, and performed in venues such as The Blue Note (Japan & USA), Birdland (Austria), London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Jazz Festival Royale in Thailand, Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Iridium, Jazz Standard, Blue Note, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (NYC).
As a composer and arranger, Giraudo lead three ensembles (Pedro Giraudo Sextet, Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra and Pedro Giraudo Expansions Big Band), and has been hailed by critics as one of the most creative and daring bandleaders on the scene today. His compositions combine his love of classical forms, Argentine tango and folk music, and the spontaneity of jazz improvisation. The band, which boasts some of New York's finest jazz musicians, has performed regularly in the most prestigious jazz clubs in the New York City area, including the Jazz Standard, Birdland, The Jazz Gallery, BlueNote, Joe's Pub, as well as abroad. John Murph of Downbeat described Giraudo's music as "an opulent listening experience of modern, orchestral jazz, brimming with passionate improvisations, deliberate contrapuntal melodies and plush harmonies. Pedro Giraudo has also conducted the world renown WDR Big Band and Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.
His discography includes Córdoba' (Zoho Music 2011),
El Viaje' (2009) , Desconsuelo' (2005), Mr Vivo' (2002) and Destiny of Flowers' (2000). Córdoba' won 2011 Latin Jazz Corner's: "Latin Jazz Large Ensemble Album Of The Year", "Latin Jazz Boundary Breaking Album Of The Year"," South American Jazz Album Of The Year", and "Latin Jazz Composition Of The Year"; while El Viaje' won 2010 "Best Latin Jazz Album Of The Year," and "Best Latin Jazz Large Ensemble Album Of The Year," as well as "Best Latin Jazz Composition".
In 2013 Pedro Giraudo was commissioned by Música de Cámara a piece for string orchestra which will be presented in May 2014. He recently finished pieces for members of the San Diego Symphony and for Japanese clarinetist Sawako Yoshida. In 2008, Giraudo was awarded a composer's commission through the Jazz Gallery in New York, for a new work for his large ensemble; and in 2010, he was commissioned by the JazzReach initiative to compose a new work for their Big Drum/Small World main-stage program.
He has played bass on dozens of recordings for the world's leading labels including Sony, Warner, Nonesuch, Naxos and Harmonia Mundi, as well as for independent projects, and on movies including Oliver Stone's Wall Street II'. He is also the principal bassist of the Hudson Symphony Orchestra and the Música de Cámara String Ensemble.
Pedro Giraudo is endorsed by the gold standard in string makers, D'Addario, and the outstanding Keeley Electronics.
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