Fernando Huergo - electric bassist

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Fernando Huergo was born in Córdoba, Argentina, but has resided in Boston, Massachusetts for nearly twenty years. During his career, he has been featured on over one hundred albums, including nine as a leader.

As a developer of the Argentinian chacarera into the jazz tradition, Huergo has recorded three highly original albums on which he acts as composer, bandleader and bassist: Jazz Argentino, Live at Regattabar and Provinciano. His band has featured saxophonists Chris Cheek and Andrew Rathbun, flutist Yulia Musayelyan, pianist Mika Pohjola and drummers Jeff Ballard and Franco Pinna.

Huergo's other collaborators include Brazilians; pop-star Gilberto Gil, Grammy nominated vocalist Luciana Souza, and vocal legend Elis Regina's long-time pianist and arranger Cesar Camargo Mariano. He has worked with Argentinian chacarera great Raul Carnota, Chayanne and Sandra Mihanovich; guitarists Kurt Rosenwinkel and Ben Monder, saxophonists Mark Turner, David Sanchez and Miguel Zenon, drummers Paulo Braga, Portinho, Antonio Sanchez, Dave Weckl, Dafnis Prieto and Jorge Rossi. Additionally, he has performed with Guillermo Klein, Marta Gómez, Danilo Perez, Hendrick Meurkens, Dave Liebman, Dave Samuels, Joe Beck, Tom Harrell, Billy Pierce, George Garzone, Paquito D'Rivera, Kenny Werner, Mike Mainieri, John Riley, Mike Clark, Don Braden, Mike Stern, Don Byron, Horacio Hernandez, Romero Lubambo and Claudio Roditi.

Fernando is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and a popular clinician.

Living These Times is a vibrant musical statement from a charismatic voice among jazz bassists. All About Jazz

Fernando Huergo, bassist extraordinaire makes a huge leap of faith as he - first explains - and then demonstrates the depth of his creativity and staggering virtuosity in his musical sojourn and his organically evolving bass playing. Huergo is a fine technician, but he plays his bass with great feeling and expression as well. LatinJazzNet

This was five-string electric-bassist Fernando Huergo, who plays in more pan-American bands (as in Spanish and Portuguese) than I can count – singer-songwriter Marta Gómez's band, Sergio Brandao's Manga-Rosa, the Afro-Cuban band Enclave, and Guillermo Klein's Los Guachos big band, to name a few. But it is Huergo's own Jazz Argentino that is closest to his heart, a blend of jazz harmonies and improvisation with Argentine milonga, tango, and chacarera. At Ryles, he was joined by the band from his latest album on Sunnyside, Provinciana: flutist Yulia Musayelyan, saxophonist Andrew Rathbun, pianist Mika Pohjola, and drummer Franco Pinna. Although Huergo's tunes are based on dance rhythms, you probably couldn't dance to them, not even if you're from Argentina. Those formal schemes don't begin to suggest how catchy Huergo's melodies can be, and the irresistible tug of his grooves, no matter how ambiguous the meter. He knows how to keep you dancing in your seat. At Ryles, you could also hear why he's such an in-demand bassist. The first tune of the night, his Chacarera Boogaloo, honored the classic Blue Note boogaloos of Herbie Hancock and Lee Morgan. As Pohjola solo'd, Huergo's bass danced in tandem, outlining the beat with Penna, but also spinning off countermelodies, coloring chords with bass-baritone low notes and guitar-tenor highs. Boston Phoenix

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