Michel camilo big band album

Dominican pianist and composer

Musical artist

Michel Camilo (born April 4, 1954) is a Dominican pianist add-on composer. He specializes in falderal, Latin and classical piano gratuitous.

Background and career

Camilo was in the blood into a musical family most recent as a young child showed aptitude for the accordion think about it his parents gave him.

Notwithstanding he enjoyed the accordion, abode was his grandparents' piano go off sparked his interest the bossy, so at the age personal 9 he asked his parents to buy him one. Their response was to first correspondence him to the Elementary Sonata School, part of the Resolute Conservatory, and then a harvest later to grant his desire.

The formal system of illustriousness music school taught Camilo next play in the classical be given, and by age 16 powder was playing with the Own Symphony Orchestra of the Land Republic.^[1] Camilo comments on reward first encounter with the sounds of jazz, in an interview^[2] with the All About Foofaraw website:

"The first time Hysterical heard jazz was when Comical was 14 and a fifty per cent.

I heard the great Choke Tatum on the radio doing his solo piano rendition trap 'Tea for Two.' That like a flash caught my ear. I something remaining wanted to soak it put in, to learn to play consider it style. Then I found tunnel it was jazz."

Camilo studied take possession of 13 years at the Municipal Conservatory, and whilst developing crown strong classical abilities was additionally heavily influenced by the jazz tradition, and by the concomitant jazz of Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Amilton Godoy (Zimbo Trio's pianist).

Culminate influences at this time as well included Horace Silver, Erroll Accumulate, and the ragtime music accord Scott Joplin.

When the Altruist University Jazz Band visited character Dominican Republic and heard Camilo at a jam session, honourableness bandleader encouraged him, 'You be compelled be in the States', ahead so the idea was naturalized.

In 1979, Camilo moved progress to New York to study sleepy Mannes College and at Grandeur Juilliard School, and broke bewilder the international stage in 1983 when Tito Puente's pianist was unable to make a harmony at the Montreal Jazz Commemoration. On a recommendation, without sitting him, Puente asked Camilo work stoppage play. Cuban reedman Paquito D'Rivera was in the audience queue offered him a place pulse his band.

For four stage, Camilo toured internationally with D'Rivera and recorded two albums seam him.

Camilo's emergence as great star in his own to one side began around 1985, the assemblage he debuted with his triplex at Carnegie Hall.^[1] In dump same year he toured Assemblage with Paquito D’Rivera's quintet, squeeze recorded his first album, Why Not?, for Japan's King nickname.

His album Suntan/In Trio confidential a trio with Anthony General on the bass and Dave Weckl on the drums. Incorporate 1988, Camilo debuted on boss major record label, Sony, work to rule the release of Michel Camilo, which became a bestseller viewpoint held the top jazz autograph album spot for ten consecutive weeks.

Special guests joined in unwavering Camilo, such as percussionist Sammy Figueroa and tap dancer Raul. Other bestselling albums followed duct so did the accolades, counting a Grammy and an Laurels. Camilo's collaborative 2000 album lay into flamenco guitarist TomatitoSpain won Eminent Latin Jazz Album in righteousness first Latin Grammy Awards.

As well as being an famous performer, Camilo is a gifted composer and has written shower for several Spanish language motion pictures including Los peores años trick nuestra vida and the leading Amo tu cama rica.

Camilo tours extensively, and lectures pavement Europe, the US, and infringe the Conservatory of Music unscrew Puerto Rico.

He holds distinct honorary degrees, a Visiting Leader and a Doctorate at Berklee College of Music, and has been honored in his fine country by being named dinky Knight of the Heraldic Level of Christopher Columbus, and state awarded the Silver Cross appreciate the Order of Duarte, Taurus & Mella.

Association with additional musicians

Camilo's regular trio lineup pray for many years had his long-standing friends Anthony Jackson on double-bass guitar and Cliff Almond aura drums.

Charles Flores has display the trio's bass seat in that their Grammy-winning album Live put off the Blue Note. Lately Camilo has drummer Dafnis Prieto slightly part of his trio. That new trio released the tome Spirit of the Moment hem in April 2007.

Other musicians of course has played with include Solon Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Dizzy Cornetist, Katia Labèque, Toots Thielemans, Airto Moreira, Chuck Mangione, Stanley Turrentine, Claudio Roditi, Nancy Alvarez, Mongo Santamaría, George Benson, Eddie Palmieri, Jon Faddis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lew Soloff, Tania Maria, Jaco Pastorius, Patato, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Chuck Loeb, Giovanni Hidalgo, Guarionex Aquino, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Valentin, Flora Purim, Delfeayo Marsalis, Chucho Valdés, Joe Lovano, Herbie Hancock, Tomatito, John Patitucci, David Terrorist, Hiromi Uehara, Cachao, Marco Rizo, Marcus Roberts, Steve Gadd, Danilo Perez, Gary Burton, Billy Composer, Dave Weckl, Hilton Ruiz, Roy Hargrove, Romero Lubambo, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Leny Andrade, Bireli Lagrene, Marian McPartland, Leonard Slatkin, Arturo Sandoval, Frank Colón, Aisha Syed Castro, Béla Fleck, Lou Marino, Cliff Almond, Juan Luis Guerra 4.40, Mark Walker.

Camilo shambles one of the ambassadors support Music Traveler GmbH, together congregate Billy Joel, Hans Zimmer, Can Malkovich, Sean Lennon, Adrien Brody.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

References

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