Alejandro Santos Flute Quartet!
"Al Escenario" - Warm artistic bar, at La Boca - Buenos Aires - Argentina
Alejandro Santos has an outstanding career in Argentina and internationally. With extraordinary conditions as flute player, he is also multi-instrumentist: piccolo, low flute, native flutes, tenor saxophone and soprano, piano, synthesizers, guitar, etc. As a composer he blends modern jazz with traditional Argentine rhythms, that got him great feedback from the public and the critics, from the appearance of his first album: "Candombe de el Parque Chacabuco" (published in South America by RCA in 1982) and all his following CDs until today, also with his years of international tours with American guitarist Al Di Meola and the recording of his CD “Flesh on Flesh”, contributing in many local musicians groups and recordings, etc. Born in Buenos Aires, he began his musical career at the age of 8 years. He joined different groups that acted in theatres, radio and television, that included a show at the Festival of Cosquín in 1968. Few years later he would integrate the Buenos Aires Municipal Youth Orchestra directed by Jaime Braude. Already in the 1980s his figure took hold in the Bs As music scene, taking part in performances and recording projects with major artists of Rock, such as Fito Paez, Juan C. Baglieto, Silvina Garré, Ruben Rada or Miguel Abuelo as well as also Jazz and folklore such as Chango Farías Gomez, Manolo Juarez, Luis Salinas, Dino Saluzzi, Daniel Binelli, Lito Vitale Lucho González, Eduardo Lagos, Jorge Cumbo, Domingo Cura, Saloma, Alejandro De el Prado, Jaime Torres and Toquinho, among many others....
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Alejandro Santos Flute Quartet!
"Al Escenario" - Warm artistic bar, at La Boca - Buenos Aires - Argentina
Alejandro Santos has an outstanding career in Argentina and internationally. With extraordinary conditions as flute player, he is also multi-instrumentist: piccolo, low flute, native flutes, tenor saxophone and soprano, piano, synthesizers, guitar, etc. As a composer he blends modern jazz with traditional Argentine rhythms, that got him great feedback from the public and the critics, from the appearance of his first album: "Candombe de el Parque Chacabuco" (published in South America by RCA in 1982) and all his following CDs until today, also with his years of international tours with American guitarist Al Di Meola and the recording of his CD “Flesh on Flesh”, contributing in many local musicians groups and recordings, etc. Born in Buenos Aires, he began his musical career at the age of 8 years. He joined different groups that acted in theatres, radio and television, that included a show at the Festival of Cosquín in 1968. Few years later he would integrate the Buenos Aires Municipal Youth Orchestra directed by Jaime Braude. Already in the 1980s his figure took hold in the Bs As music scene, taking part in performances and recording projects with major artists of Rock, such as Fito Paez, Juan C. Baglieto, Silvina Garré, Ruben Rada or Miguel Abuelo as well as also Jazz and folklore such as Chango Farías Gomez, Manolo Juarez, Luis Salinas, Dino Saluzzi, Daniel Binelli, Lito Vitale Lucho González, Eduardo Lagos, Jorge Cumbo, Domingo Cura, Saloma, Alejandro De el Prado, Jaime Torres and Toquinho, among many others.
He began in the early 1980's an intense activity as a soloist, presenting with his group in theatres and nightclubs in Buenos Aires as well as in the interior of the country, where he made famous performances in the Festival de La Falda (81 to 84), Mar del Jazz (81 to 94) or Labardén theatre (Rosario) shows at estadio Obras (82,84) , the Teatro Gral. San Martín and at Bs As universities (80 to 85) between 1985 to 1987 he settled in Europe performing with his group in Spain, France and Germany with great feedback at his original composition style. In ' 87, he moved to New York where he participates in the New York scene both in the environments of the latin-jazz and contemporary jazz, making various presentations to audiences from Boston, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as several participations in the American TV programs.
In 1988, he received a scholarship for training in wind instruments and composition, at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, studying until 1990 with International Jazz figures such as Gary Burton, Lyle Mays, Herb Pomeroy, Bill Pierce and Matt Marvuglio, among others. By then his group was: Bob Moses, Polo Orti and Victor Merlo and played at the 400 anniversary Festival in Boston in the amphitheatre Hutch Shell, at the Berklee Performance Center and several Jazz clubs, in addition to a tour of the State of California, where he made 15 performances as a soloist. In 1990 is published by the label Invasion Records-GNA in United States and Canada their second album solo entitled "5 carnivals 4" which received rave reviews and was for several months among the 30 best albums of Jazz in North America according to the magazine The Gavin Report.
In 1992 he returned to recording studios, this time in Manhattan, for his third album "Nocturnal reflections", that featured the prestigious trumpeters Diego Urcola and Claudio Roditi, besides singer Adriana Rios. He came back to Argentina in early 1993 and since then develops an intense activity with his Group and as a part of other musical projects: together with the guitarist Agustín Pereyra Lucena - with who recorded 3 albums, which participates also as arranger -, also next to the prestigious jazz fusion keyboardist, Mario Parmisano - who arose in the Jazz Festival of Santiago de Chile in several cities of Argentina and in the Teatro San Martin of Buenos Aires -.
From ´94, he integrates the renowned Anacrusa, led by José Luis Castiñeira de Dios and Susana Lago; with whom he made tours in Brazil, appearing at the Tom Jobim Auditorium in Rio de Janeiro and the Latin American Art Museum of São Paulo, also with a tour through Spain in 96 with 10 concerts in Madrid and surroundings, in Sweden in ´97 with 6 concerts in Stockholm and later through Argentina, from Ushuaia to Misiones where the Group presented their show together with the symphony orchestras in each city. In Buenos Aires he made several presentations at the Teatro Cervantes accompanied by the Orchestra Juan de Dios Filiberto and at the prestigious Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires in December 1999, acting together with the National Symphony Orchestra and the polyphonic choir.
Presenting his work as composer in Buenos Aires he had major performances with his group, among them the Koncert-Cafe of the Paseo La Plaza of the year 93, the Central Hall of the Teatro San Martín y el Club del Vino (96, 97 and 98). During the year 95 made another tour of the United States, sponsored by the Ministry of culture at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston and at the famous Birdland in Manhattan, New York. Back, continued to act with his group in theatres and Jazz-Pubs of Buenos Aires and the interior, room AB of the Centro Cultural General San Martín in 2000 and the back in 2001 and 2002.
At the end of 2001 he is invited by world famous jazz guitarist, Al Di Meola, to be part of his World Sinfonia group, which conducted an extensive tour of 60 concerts throughout the 2002. In February of that year, after several weeks of intense trials, they recorded "Flesh on Flesh", the latest work of Di Meola studies Cryteria of Miami, where participated besides Alejandro, prestigious musicians like Anthony Jackson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Mario Parmisano, Ernie Adams and Gumbi Ortiz. Some theatres of the North American tour were: Knitting Factory Los Angeles, Long Beach IAJE International Conference, Community Concert Hall of Durango, Performance Arts Center in Santa Fe, Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, The Galaxy of Santa Ana, Red River Music Hall of Phoenix, Ameristar Casino Kansas City, Royal Oak Royal Oak Theatre, Cincinnati , Rochester, Center Denver Riverwalk, Foy Concert Hall of Bethleheim, Work Play Theater in Birmingham, The Carriage House Theater in Saratoga, IMAC and Water St. in Manhattan in New York, Philadelphia, Huntington, Jaxx in Springfield, XM Satellite Radio of Washington d.c., Jazzid of South Beach, Miami, One World Theater in Austin, The Sheldon Concert Hall of St. Louis, Fabulous Sattelite Lounge Houston WorkPlay Theatre in Birmingham and the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride among others. In addition with the Di Meola trio, were presented in Berlin and other cities of Germany, at the North Sea Jazz Festival the Hague, Netherlands, in Rome, Italy, Jazz festivals in Sicily, Marsala, Calgary and Sardegna and in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal; as well as also 8 functions in Tel Aviv, Israel.
2003, back in Buenos Aires, Alejandro Santos presents ihis new solo project, combining Rio de La Plata rhythms as candombe, tango and folklore, merged with currents more modern jazz and contemporary music. In 2007 he presented his new album "Vision Panamericana" that was nominated in the category "Best solo Tango revelation" in the Premios Gardel 2007.
More information: www.jazzbuenosaires.com
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