ABOUT EL ECO
"Guillermo's tunes are fabulous and I loved the performances on this disk. El Eco's CD is simply fantastic." --Paquito D'Rivera
Led by drummer and composer Guillermo Nojechowicz, EL ECO combines the warm and lustrous sounds of samba and candombe with the tighter lines of straight-ahead jazz, darkened by echoes of Piazolla's tango. Called "the seedbed" of much of Latin jazz scene in the Northeast(US)--the dynamic Brazilian/Argentinean jazz ensemble features Grammy Award-winning vocalist Kim Nazarian, Fernando Huergo (bass), Dino Govoni (sax), Guillermo Nojechowiz (drums), and Helio Alves (piano).
EL ECO has played host to world-class jazz artists including Airto Moreira, the master Brazilian percussionist who performed with jazz legend Miles Davis, Claudio Roditi (Dizzy Gillespie), Hendrik Meurkens, Romero Lubambo, Luciana Souza, and Diego Urcola (Paquito D'Rivera), among others.
EL ECO has performed at Telluride, where the line-up featured Herbie Hancock and Terence Blanchard; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Scullers Jazz Club; the Reggatabar in Boston; the Saratoga Jazz Festival; the Curaçao Jazz Festival; the Blue Note in New York City; and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Last summer, the band performed to a sold-out audience and a standing ovation at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT.
Guillermo's music was featured on National Public Radio's Jazz Set with host Dee Dee Bridgewater on 101 radio stations all over the US. This past January 2009 the band was feature on WGBH Radio (Boston's NPR) on "Eric in the Evening" with host Erick Jackson and produced by Steve Schwartz.
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"The high quotient of both jazz and exotic Latin American rhythms, performed with warmth and deep understanding, makes El Eco's CD Two Worlds uncommonly attractive." -- Mark Holston, JAZZIZ
"This is true world music at its best." -- Ron Mason, KANSAI TIME OUT/Japan
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FOR BOOKINGS CONTACT Laurie Covens, Manager at [email protected]
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Website
http://www.elecomusic.com
Discography
EL ECO's "Two Worlds" is out in the US (Dreambox Media). Distributed by NorthCountry. Cadence Building. Redwood, NY 13679
The CD is also out in Japan (JVC). Available at selected record stores and at www.amazon.com
EL ECO's "Two Worlds" is getting air play on jazz radio stations like KPFA (Berkley, CA); KPFK (Beverly Hills, CA); WBGO (Newark, NJ); WDNA (Miami, FL); WGBH (Boston, MA); Jazz After Hours, Jim Wilke; FM 89.9 LA ISLA, Nano Herrera (Buenos Aires, Argentina); "RadioMontaje" FM 88.7, Jorge Freytag (BA, Argentina); Radio Ardzagank FM 103.5, Yerevan Armenia; CHUO-FM, Randy McElligott (Ottawa,Canada); CIUT-FM, Toronto, Canada, among others. Several publications in the US, Canada and Japan, have written articles on EL ECO such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Herald, Yamano Music (Japan), Jazziz, Kansai Time Out (Japan), AllAboutjazz.com, Jazz Times, Cadence Magazine, LatinoJazznet.com, among others.
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BIO Guillermo Nojechowicz: drummer, composer, music for film, educator
Guillermo Nojechowicz (No-hay-cho-wees) is a composer and a drummer. The son of an actress and a painter, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was raised surrounded by the tango of Astor Piazzolla, the rock songs of Luis Alberto Spinetta, and the jazz of Oscar Peterson.
While in Argentina, he played with many well known artists and recorded for CBS with the rock group Rayuela. He then attended the National Conservatory of Music Lopez Buchardo. A Fullbright scholarship recipient, he moved to the US in 1980 to study at Berklee College of Music where he received a degree in Film Scoring.
His group EL ECO was recently featured on National Public Radio's Jazz Set with host Dee Dee Bridgewater (Tony and Grammy winner vocalist). His band has performed at many venues and festivals including the Montreal Jazz Festival in Canada, Freihofer Jazz Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY, Blue Note in New York City and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is now getting national and international attention. Recently EL ECO performed at Telluride Jazz Celebration in Colorado with guest Airto Moreira. On this festival his group performed along artists like Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Airto and Flora Purim.
From 1987 to 1993, Guillermo was an artist in residence at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge,MA where he worked with film composer Elliot Goldenthal (Frida) and director Andrei Serban. Most recently he wrote original music for “Paradise Found: Phoenix Islands,†a New England Aquarium World of Water Film, sponsored by the National Geographic Magazine and directed by Kate Raisz. Guillermo also wrote music for the TV special "Growing up on a Fast Forward" for Boston's ABC affiliate WCVB-TV produced by Debra Shapiro. This special got the National Gabriel and Peabody Award. Guillermo's music has been also featured on PBS (La Plaza) and on the news program "Chronicle" (WCVB-TV).
Guillermo has performed with Carly Simon, Claudio Roditi (Dizzy Gillespie), Jon Faddis, Danilo Perez, Airto Moreira, Tiger Okoshi, Cafe, Romero Lubambo, Walter Vanderlei, Hendrik Meurkens (Ivan Lins) and Pedro Aznar (Pat Metheny), among others. He has also taught at the New England Conservatory and at Berklee College of Music. He now teaches drums and composition at The Drum Studio in Boston, MA and at the Visual and Performing Arts Department, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA. Guillermo has studied with Charlie Banacos, Herb Pomeroy, Duduka DaFonseca, Gary Chaffee and Portinho in the US and with Beatriz Tabares and Chiche Heger in Argentina.
LATEST NEWS JANUARY 2009!!!EL ECO's CD Two Worlds was selected top 10 picks of 2008 on KBCS Radio (Seattle, WA)
for the program "Raizes" with host Samia Panni.
http://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer?pagename=bestof2008
