Alexis Cuadrado

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Alexis Cuadrado: In Studio

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Eighty years before terms like “1 percenter” and “the Occupy movement” entered our conversations, the great Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca wrote about the inequalities he saw while living in 1930s America. Now, Spanish bassist and composer Alexis Cuadrado has set those poems to music. He unveils his jazz song cycle, "A Lorca Soundscape," live in our studio.

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Alexis Cuadrado

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Alexis Cuadrado wears many hats in the New York jazz scene: bassist, composer, band-leader, record label owner and co-founder of the jazz co-op Brooklyn Jazz Underground. He joins us to premiere his epic new composition, "Noneto Iberico," which mixes Flamenco from his native Spain with contemporary improvised music.

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The Classification of Rock

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Rock musicians often wade into the world of classical music with orchestral arrangements of guitar-driven songs -- and even original compositions. Today: humorist Joe Queenan and Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins talk about rock's classical impulses. Later: the premiere of a new composition from Brooklyn-based bassist and composer Alexis ...