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    The live music report: by Joyce Corbett
La Balteuband is a first release of rich harmonic and rhythmic beauty from the instrumental jazz ensemble of the same name led by Argentine composer-pianist Emilio Teubal. The band personnel are an interesting mix of New York-based musicians of international origin — Spanish, Argentine, Brazilian, Japanese and Israeli. Their music marries jazz, classical and Argentine styles, largely composed, yet with outstanding solos from each one of the band members at some point along the musical journey which begins with the folk rhythm of the brief, bright “A Caballo” and ends with the moody twists and turns of the dense tango-jazz that is “Sin Pestanias”(April 2007).... read more Jazz Review.com: by Susan Frances
La Balteuband is the musical enterprise of pianist/composer/producer Emilio Teubal, an Argentinean musician who moved to New York City in 1999 to pursue his ambitions as a jazz artist. Rounding out his band La Balteuband are drummer Franco Pinna, clarinet and soprano saxophonist Kobi Salomon, electric bass guitarist Moto Fukushima, and tenor and soprano saxophonist Felipe Salles. Their self-titled debut album, produced by Emilio Teubal, supports avant garde music structures and baroque-jazz displays. The music notes are spontaneously splayed and extemporaneously spliced. Each song is a musical vignette that when strung together creates a whole composition of moving pictures demonstrating independent movements that fluctuate between being uncoordinated and acting in accordance with each other (May 2007)...read more
Ejazznews: by Edward Blanco
The music of pianist and composer Emilio Teubal may not be familiar to you but his debut album hopes to change that a bit. Argentinean-born Teubal captures an interesting session of light jazz incorporating elements of Argentinean music on La Balteuband. Based in New York, the pianist leads a small ensemble of ethnically diverse musicians from all over the world producing a world jazz sound that you will enjoy. Joining Teubal on this first effort are fellow countryman Franco Pinna (drums), Israeli-born Kobi Solomon (clarinet and saxes), from Japan, Moto Fukushima (bass), and Brazilian Felipe Selles (flute and saxes)(February 2007)..... read more
Cadence Magazine: by Robert Lannapollo
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