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Marcelo Peralta

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Marcelo Peralta Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 5th, 1961, Marcelo Peralta, performer, teacher, composer and arranger, plays all the saxes, piano, accordion, and the Latin American aerophones. He studied piano and music theory at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1979. At the age of 18, he began to play the baritone sax, showing a particular interest in the music of Serge Chaloff; inspired by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, he went on to Iearn tenor sax, then alto and finally soprano. While studying harmony and composition under tango composer Sebastian Piana, he taught himself to play trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, clarinet and other Latin American folk instruments. Since that time he has taught at several schools. ln 1980 he taught music in both elementary and high schools, as welI as at special education institutions. At the same time, he was hired as a saxophone and improvisation instructor at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla (Buenos Aires). At 18, he began bis career as a freelance musician, and went on to play and record with a wide range of artists and in many styles: The Bucky Arcella Trio, Manolo Yanes, Litto Nebbia, Fabiana Cantilo, Cuatro Vientos (sax quartet), LRA National Radio Orchestra (as a soloist), to name a few. ln 1985 he met the guitar player Jorge Mancini, with whom he began to experiment in free improvisation and contemporary music; they were joined by the sax player Mariana Potenza and the percussionist Victor Da Cunha, together creating the Grupo de Improvisación Tercer Mundo (Third World lmprovisation Group). It was with this group that he recorded bis first record as a soloist - Un Hilo de Luz(l987). Although he had been playing the quena, the accordion and other ethnic and percussion instruments alongside the standard ones for several years, bis interest in folk music was further developed in 1988 when he performed and recorded with the pianist and composer Eduardo Lagos (a great innovator in Argentine folklore). He developed a truly personal view of improvised music when he formed bis own quintet, with which he explored the deepest roots of Latin American music. Together with musicians such as Cesar Franov, Enrique Norris, Carlos Triolo, Diego Pojomovsky, and Guillermo Bazzola, among others, he made bis second recording,”Escaleras de la Comprensión (Melopea Records- 1990/91). Over the next five years he headed the big band Los Saxópatas(1990/95) with which he recorded and performed throughout Argentina. ln Buenos Aires he recorded Milonga(Melopea Records- 1997) and made the debut of bis solo set show> in which he improvises freely on American folk tunes, interpreting bagualas, vidalas, bailecitos, chacareras and others in his own unique style.In 2009 he recorded a CD with the GNU TRIO, receiving great reviews in the U.S. in www.Allaboutjazz.com magazine. In 2013 he was invited by the Columbia University of New York for the inaugural concert at “Glicker Milstein Theatre”, it was part of the “Thinking Music and Sound in Latin America and the Caribbean” conference and it was organized by the Center for Ethnomusicology and the Institute of Latin American Studies. In NYC, he performed with Lucia Pulido, Erik Friedlander, Luis Bonilla and group at the “Manhattan Simphony Space” and also he played with JP Carletti at the “Downtown Music Gallery” in Manhattan. He currently lives in Madrid, where he teaches saxophone, composition and improvisation at several music schools (EMC, Alfonso X El Sabio University)

Discography

# Serie Melopea-Jazz Argentino Vol. 1 Litto Nebbia Cuarteto - MELOPEA / INTERDISC (DSL 66094-1) # Serie Melopea Jazz Argentino Vol. 2 Grupo de Improvisación Tercer Mundo - MELOPEA (CM 008) # Serie Melopea Vol.1 Manolo Yanes Cuarteto # Serie Melopea Vol. 2 Manolo Yanes Cuarteto - RCA / ARIOLA (TMS 50357) # Antes que en el Cine Manolo Yanes Trío - (CTL 86528) # Tangueando Gustavo Fedel - MELOPEA / INTERDISC (DSL 66071) # Serie Melopea Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Trio Yanes - Peralta - Franov MELOPEA / INTERDISC (DSL 66097) # Buscando en el Bolsillo del Alm Litto Nebbia - MELOPEA / INTERDISC (SLI 67549-2) # Todo está Claro Manolo Yanes - MELOPEA (DM 032) # Un Hilo de Luz Marcelo Peralta y Grupo Tercer Mundo - MELOPEA (DM 014) # Litto Nebbia 15 clasicos vol.2 Litto Nebbia MELOPEA (CDMSE 5054) 1994 # Litto Nebbia 15 clasicos vol.3 Litto Nebbia MELOPEA (CDMSE 5055) 1994 # Litto Nebbia 15 clasicos vol.4 Litto Nebbia MELOPEA (CDMSE 5063) - 1994 # Serie Melopea Los Saxofonistas Marcelo Peralta - MELOPEA (CM 017) # Mbugi Missisipi Blues Band DEL CIELITO RECORDS (CD51019) - 1990 # Escaleras de la Comprensión Marcelo Peralta - MELOPEA (CM 064) # Los Saxópatas Big Band DIGISOUND Buenos Aires 1997 # Milonga Marcelo Peralta MELOPEA (CDM 014) - NUEVOS MEDIOS IMPORT - 1997 # Love Jobim - Marcelo Peralta - Litto Nebbia MELOPEA (CDMSE 5125) - 1998 # Lo que nos gusta es esto Santiago de la Muela SATCHMO - 2000 # Fall Peter Dieterle - David Lenker - Marcelo Peralta - 2001 # DixFunxional Brass Band Tony Haimer Bob Sands Crhis Kase Ove Larson Greg Moore Steve Jordan Marcelo Peralta MOCO DE PAVO PRODUCCIONS - 2001 # Cum Laude - Dr. Macaroni Brass Band TCB 23602 - The Montreaux Jazz Label - 2003 # Yumiko Murakami Música Yumiko Murakami, Gustavo Gregorio, Jerry Gonzalez, Federico Lechner, Crhistian Howes, Diego Urcola, etc. PAIRECORDS (PAI 3068) - 2005 # “Jazz Sinfónico” RTVE Orchestra W/Bobby Martinez, Chris Kase, Pepe Nieto, etc (RTVE MUSICA 65249) # “Lineas Paralelas – Santiago de la Muela Jazz Orchestra” # ”Sabor a Big Band – Santiago de la Muela Jazz Orchestra” # “Gnu Trio” (GNU TOWN 001 – Guillermo Bazzola – Andrés Litwin) # “Sir Chales – De Aquí” (Pablo Gutierrez, Pascual Piqueras, David Herrington, Richie Ferrer) # “¡ZAS Trio! (KARONTE-NUBA RECORDS - Baldo Martinez, “SirCharles” González)