A Tango Jazz Evening with Adrián Iaies Trio

Director of the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in concert in Toronto for one night only



Adrián Iaies plays "Hallucinations"


Mateca LatinJazzFest Launch

Mateca Productions Inc.
presents

A Tango Jazz Evening
with
Adrián Iaies Trio

Direct from Buenos Aires

One Night Only

Director of the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival

Don’t miss this superb concert!

August 14
SATURDAY
8:30pm

Isabel Bader Theatre
Isabel Bader Theatre website
Map to Isabel Bader Theatre

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Tickets

until Aug1
$45 - orchestra
$35 - balcony

after Aug1
$50 - orchestra
$40 - balcony

$25 - student (with valid student ID)

$80 - VIP Patrons
Patrons who purchase VIP tickets will be able to attend the post concert launch party (at Victoria College) & their names will be included in the website as "Friends of Mateca LatinJazzFest" for one full year.

reserved seating
Isabel Bader Theatre Seating Plan

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BIO

Pianist, composer, arranger, producer, and Director of the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival since 2007, Adrián Iaies, was born in Buenos Aires November 4, 1960. An outstanding pianist, who has been nominated three times for the Latin Grammy awards. His main style is Jazz, but he is a master combining it with tango, soul, and a fusion of other styles.

He began a career as a piano instructor in 1985, and performing professionally in the city's numerous jazz clubs, in 1995. Iaies' first album, Las Tardecitas de Minton's (Evenings at Minton's), received a nomination for a Latin Grammy in 2000, and his Tango Reflections (2002) earned him a Clarín Prize, his first major award.

He has been featured by "Down Beat magazine" several times and was a guest pianist at the Lincoln Center, New York for their 2002 Nights of Blues, Havaneras, and Tangos. This was followed by the release of Las Cosas Tienen Movimiento (Things Move), in 2003, and a 2005 Konex Award for his first decade in jazz. He has been fetured in "All that Jazz" for his contribution towards Buenos Aires cultural life.

Some of his diverse music projects have been presented at the Vancouver Musicfest, The Metropolitan Opera Houe of Tel Aviv, the America's Society in New York, the Ibirapuera Auditorium in Sao Pablo, Brasil, and during Jazz at the Park Festival in Bogota, Colombia, Jazz Festival in San Sebastian, Spain. Iaies also appears regularly on the European Jazz Festival circuit.

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PRESS

“His set of original tunes and smart reinterpretations of jazz and tango standards proved fascinating, not your typical, cut-and-paste fusion. Iaies has an elegante touch, a rich harmonic approach and a fluid melodic sense, consistently understanding the sentimentality of tradicional tango. Rather than grafting elements from one style to the other, Iaies applied a jazz sensibility and, for lack a better word, a jazz metodhology to tango playing reframing clasics such as "Sur" and "El dia que me quieras" as swinging ballads. Conversely, in reading standards such as "You and the night and the music" or "Round midnight" he phrased and shaded them like a tanguero - a tanguero educated in Bill Evans. He has an elegant touch, a rich harmonic approach and a fluid melodic sense, consistently understanding the sentimentality of traditional tango”
- Fernando Gonzalez, Down Beat magazine. June 2000

On "Nostalgias y Otros Vicios", ( Aqua 1998), Iaies reinvented classic tangos as jazz pieces. His follow up CD, "Las Tardecitas de Minton", (Aqua 1999), which earned Iaies the first Latin Grammy nomination - took matters even further, not only reinterpreting tangos with a jazz sensibility, but also recasting several jazz standards as tangos.
- Marcelo Morales, JAZZIZ magazine. May 2005

“...this music marries the type of jazz patented 30 years ago bi Keith Jarrett’s Trios with the piquant rounds and rhythms favoured by bandoneons and Argentinian dance music. It is a happy combination effected by highly skilled players, and it brings unto being a music not dissimilar in method and result to that of the Brubeck Quartet of the 50s and 60s. The jazz playing and the forms are conventional but the exocitism introduced through the unusual sounds and rythms keep things fresh and interesting...”
- Keith Shandwuick, Jazzwise magazine, June 2003

“Nous sommes dans la Capitale argentine, avec l’un des meilleurs trios jazz d’Amerique du Sud, celui du pianiste Adrian Iaies. Si Jerry Gonzalez fait de Monk un rumbero, Adrián Iaies fait de lui un tanguero”
- Francisco Cruz, JazzMan magazine, France. December 2001

"Le Tango ne cesse de susciter les passions et depuis "Libertango" d' Astor Piazzola nombreus son les musiciens qui on uni les deux langages: jazz et tango. Avec "Tango Reflections"....le pianist argentin offre quelques reflections intimistes en solo ou duo...l' album et tout simplement magnifique, rafraichissant..."
- Luc Delannoy, Jazz Magazine, France. January 2003

"Suffice is to say, I found pianistcomposer Adrian Iaies a world class virtuoso. World class with a capital C...Argentine native Adrian Iaies is no stranger to international audiences. Widely recognized for his deft touch and consumated command of the jazz idiom, only now American audiences are witness to this pure talent...“Iaies’ roots are in tango, but he has successfully combined it with signature music of the United States”..."
- Marcia Hillman, Allaboutjazz.com, June 2009

Adrián Iaies official website

For more info
(416) 923-5742
Mateca Productions Inc. website

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A Tango Jazz Evening with Adrián Iaies Trio

Isabel Bader Theatre
Sat Aug 14 2010, 8:30pm


Ticket Sales Begin:
Wed Jun 30 2010, 11:00am

Ticket Prices:
student - $25.00
orchestra (until Aug1) - $45.00
balcony (until Aug1) - $35.00
orchestra (after Aug1) - $50.00
balcony (after Aug1) - $40.00
VIP - $80.00

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