Roxana Amed Quinteto
Roxana Amed is an Argentine-American jazz artist born in Buenos Aires, based in the USA who has been nominated for a Latin Grammy, is a member of NARAS & LARAS and a Gardel Award winner. She is a singular singer-songwriter whose music blends South American folk traditions with art rock and modern jazz. An award-winning vocalist, producer, songwriter and educator, Amed has been praised by Grammy.com for her “artistic vision and understanding of her place in the canon”.
Amed is considered by colleagues, audiences and critics as one of the most important voices in South American music. She is currently a teacher at the Frost School of Music, Miami University, and has earned acclaim for her albums with fellow Argentine multi-instrumentalist and former Pat Metheny band member Pedro Aznar, including Limbo (2004) and Entremundos (2006). More albums followed, Cinemateca Finlandesa (2010), a duo album with pianist Adrián Iaies (Latin Grammy nominee), Inocencia (2011), followed by La Sombra de Su Sombra (2013) with pianist and composer Frank Carlberg featuring the poems of Alejandra Pizarnik. In 2019, she produced Instantáneas, an album with live-in-studio performances.
In April 2021, she released Ontology which featured her group led by pianist Martin Bejerano and her interpreting songs by Wayne Shorter, Alberto Ginastera, Miles Davis, and an original repertoire. It had a significant impact on the international jazz media scene collecting excellent reviews. On September 28th, 2021, her album Ontology received two Latin Grammy Awards nominations in the Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album and Best Arrangement categories. A few months later, this album won the Gardel Award for Best Jazz Album in 2022 in Argentina, the first time in 19 years for a vocalist, female producer to receive this award.
In 2023 she received a new nomination for the Gardel Awards for Argentine music and a Latin Grammy Nomination for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album for her album Unánime, which once again received distinguished criticism on the American, European & Argentine jazz scene.
On 9 June 2023 she released the album Los Trabajos y Las Noches with composer/pianist Frank Carlberg, second part of a project based on music written for poems by the great Argentine writer Alejandra Pizarnik. It received 4 stars in the jazz magazine ‘Downbeat’ and was successfully presented in New York last August.
Her new album Becoming human is the result of a New Jazz Works grant by Chamber Music America.
Line-Up:
Roxana Amed: vocals
Leo Genovese: piano
Mark Small: saxophones & clarinets
Edward Pérez: contrabass
Ludwig Afonso: drums
Events
| Concert | Date | Time | Venue | Location | Tickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxana Amed | 10-07-2024 | 20:30h | Espacio La Granja | Tenerife | Tickets not available |
| Roxana Amed | 11-07-2024 | 20:30h | Teatro Guiniguada | Gran Canaria | Tickets not available |
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