Laszlo Gardony Trio & Christian Artmann Quartet feat.: Elena McEntire at Regattabar

The acclaimed Sunnyside recording artists play music from their recent releases, Gardony’s Close Connection and Artmann’s The Middle of Life

Internationally acclaimed artists pianist/composer Laszlo Gardony and flutist/composer Christian Artmann (from San Francisco) bring their jazz ensembles to the Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge for a double bill on Saturday, June 29. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $15-$35. For information visit regattabarjazz.com.

Gardony and his trio with bassist John Lockwood and drummer Yoron Israel perform new original compositions, personal takes on standards, improvisations, and music from the trio’s recent Sunnyside Records recording Close Connection, which earned broad critical acclaim including a 4-star review in DownBeat. One of the most expressive and technically skilled pianists working in jazz today, Gardony is “a formidable improviser who lives in the moment,” (JazzTimes). He has performed in 27 countries and released 13 albums on the Sunnyside, Antilles and Avenue Jazz labels. Close Connection, Gardony’s 14th album as a leader released December 2, 2022, finds him addressing his own roots, specifically folk music elements from Central Europe (a quality he shares with Béla Bartók, whose great appreciation for folk tunes of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia informed his work). ...

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The acclaimed Sunnyside recording artists play music from their recent releases, Gardony’s Close Connection and Artmann’s The Middle of Life

Internationally acclaimed artists pianist/composer Laszlo Gardony and flutist/composer Christian Artmann (from San Francisco) bring their jazz ensembles to the Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge for a double bill on Saturday, June 29. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $15-$35. For information visit regattabarjazz.com.

Gardony and his trio with bassist John Lockwood and drummer Yoron Israel perform new original compositions, personal takes on standards, improvisations, and music from the trio’s recent Sunnyside Records recording Close Connection, which earned broad critical acclaim including a 4-star review in DownBeat. One of the most expressive and technically skilled pianists working in jazz today, Gardony is “a formidable improviser who lives in the moment,” (JazzTimes). He has performed in 27 countries and released 13 albums on the Sunnyside, Antilles and Avenue Jazz labels. Close Connection, Gardony’s 14th album as a leader released December 2, 2022, finds him addressing his own roots, specifically folk music elements from Central Europe (a quality he shares with Béla Bartók, whose great appreciation for folk tunes of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia informed his work).

The second set features fellow Sunnyside artist Artmann and his quartet with Gardony, Lockwood, and Israel playing music from his new album The Middle of Life. Their performance features vocalist Elena McEntire. The album was inspired by Artmann’s family and his Buddhist faith. Called a “composer with great vision” by All About Jazz and praised for his “stunning virtuosity by JazzTimes, flutist/composer Christian Artmann is passionate about bridging musical boundaries and creating space for dialogue and understanding. Having grown up immersed in classical music in Germany Austria, Artmann was invited to the Aspen Music Festival as a teenager where he performed with the Aspen Festival Orchestra under world-renowned conductors Claudio Scimone and Lawrence Foster and also gave solo recitals of Debussy, Hindemith, and Bartok. Increasingly fascinated with composition and improvisation, he realized that jazz was his true calling. Following studies at Berklee College of Music, Artmann moved to New York where he released three recordings as a leader to critical acclaim. Now residing in the Bay Area, Artmann released his latest album The Middle of Life in 2023 featuring “clever, evocative themes” and a sound which “conjures up the magic of Chick Corea’s first Return to Forever band” (JazzThetik, Germany). Artmann’s approach to the flute has been called “a model of what is possible with jazz flute” (The Flutist Quarterly), and praised for its “fluid technique” (Jazziz) and “the most beautiful, pure flute sound one could ever wish for” (JazzThetik Germany).


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