photo: Gilles Tondini The drummer of the year Alicante is
jazz musician based in Paris Ramon Lopez launches four albums in twelve months, two of them featured among the best in 2010 for the journal Cahiers du Jazz
2010 has been a very productive year for Alicante drummer Ramon Lopez, who lived in Paris for 26 years and considered one of the most respected musicians of modern jazz and improvised music, also in 2008 was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres France.
Ramon Lopez (Alicante, 1961) has recorded four albums in one year in tandem with different English and foreign musicians, whose contemporary jazz theme, "where free improvisation is a very important role," says the percussionist and composer, with over 50 discs behind them.
TriEZ, Valencia, Morning Glory + Live in NYC and villas are the titles of their latest works and the first two were chosen from among the 20 best albums of 2010 by the prestigious journal Cuadernos Jazz. Of this publication says that "the instrument and the compositions of Lopez are the backbone of Valencia. Valencia know or not, enjoy it through the vision of López worth "or" a genuine and easy delight for the listener ", in respect to TriEZ." It is my honor, as the jury is composed of many the most important jazz critics of Spain, and the production of jazz recordings have been well attended this year, "notes on these distinctions.
The musician admits to have in the market almost simultaneously four jazz albums is something that "rarely occurs" and, indeed, in front of an instrument like the drums. Ramón López said that "from always, the market for contemporary jazz album of free jazz, has been a minority, but it is important to know that jazz musicians have never directed our market-based projects, while considering that "our priority is to record and produce records artistically essential that we find those who make our music there. "
In order of appearance in the market, TriEZ contains a repertoire ranging from songs written and free improvisation in a group composed exclusively English musicians, the pianist Agusti Fernandez and bassist Baldo Martínez.
Valencia was produced by the Valencian Institute of Music for Jazz Xàbia and international sextet performed with a free improvisation, a tribute to the drummer Max Roach, who first made him devote himself to music.
Morning Glory + Live in NYC is the second in a trio with pianist Agusti Fernandez and Barry Guy on bass, with new compositions and a live recording at the Jazz Standard club in New York . The latter, Nutter, was recorded with pianist Joachim Kuhn and Majid Bekkas, a Moroccan musician who sings and plays the Guembri.
After 26 years in France, Lopez does not arise now return to Spain, "all my activities continue to grow and develop from Paris, but I have to organize myself better and spend more time in Alicante." Advances that could participate this summer jazz festivals in Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Heineken Jazz Festival in San Sebastian, which is preparing two new international groups and live concerts with contemporary theater and cinema-concerts (in drum solos silent films.)
Optimistic by nature, said that since the distance has been in Spain "a great jazz developments in this quarter century, but I think there is much confusion with the jazz and the culture and art in general. For the vast majority , jazz has become more a consumer product that is downloaded, you hear vaguely in the seldom-radio, on TV, almost never, or as background music in small places and that I consider it a grave error ". In his view, "deserve and jazz is the most creative and revolutionary art of the twentieth century" after adding he does not believe has lost its wild side.
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information. Published http://www.diarioinformacion.com/cultura/2011/04/02/bateria-ano-alicantino/1111526.html
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