CAI’s John Basile talks with Fernando Huergo, a Boston-based composer, bandleader, arranger teacher and bassist. His latest album on New Bedford-based Whaling City Sounds Records is called “Relentless.”
The program features the music from Huergo’s new CD, and he talks about dedicating a song to Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident who died in prison. He also discusses managing his multiple roles as a teacher, bassist, bandleader and sideman; his musical roots in Argentina; and the economics of being a working musician.