X-Pression Quartet

This group was formed at the beginning of 2003 through the initiative of Hernán Hecht, who wanted to delve deeper into the possibilities that contemporary jazz has to offer, just like in this case: a mixture of hard-bop, free-jazz, traditional jazz, aleatory and electronic music. However, it should be made clear that the music of this quartet is a fusion styles that does not fall into what is currently labeled as jazz-fusion. The quartet is conformed by Gabriel Hernandez who plays Fender Rhodes Piano, Ken Basman in guitar, Aarón Cruz double bass and Hernán Hecht drums. All of them musicians who work actively and set forth new ideas in the Mexican jazz scene. The main proposal of the group is based on one of the most important elements developed along the creative process that jazz contributed to the twentieth century: interplay. And it is certainly in the twentieth century that we can increasingly perceive human attitudes transformed into language or into communication systems. This is the way in which musicians in a group can get immersed in a musical style as well as in their personal ability to communicate, granting intensity, humor, contemplation, sincerity, logic, originality and complicity to music, providing it essentially with every kind of human action. They have performed in the JazzHabito Festival, Papa Beto, ArtLife JazzFest, Jazzorca, Jazz Festival of the Higher Education Music School (ESM) 2003, International Festival of Puertas de Las Americas, Jazz Alternativo Guadalajara, Tlalpan Jazz Fest 2004 and was invited at Internacional Festival Heineken in Thailand and the Patagonia's Jazz Festival in Argentina.

Biography   Hernán Hecht   Aarón Cruz   Gabriel Hernández   Ken Basman