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Ricardo Tejero

Born: April 23, 1967

RICARDO TEJERO Saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, improviser and conducter. Born in Madrid Ricardo Tejero lives in UK since 2001. His work ranges through improvisation, jazz, Latin and African music as well as his own compositions, and conduction of large orchestras. Initially self-taught, Tejero studied with Wade Mathews and in 1998 started playing improvised music under the guidance of Chefa Alonso at the same time as he was playing in different ad hoc bands, developing an active role in Madrid's improvised music scene of late 90's. Graduated in Jazz and Contemporary Music at Leeds College Music in 2005, Tejero obtained in 2007 a Masters Degree in Contemporary Music at Brunel University (London) under professors Richard Barret and Peter Wieg. Since he moved to London in 2005 Tejero has maintained an active role mainly in the local improvised music scene for several years, but also covering other styles playing with musicians like Steve Noble, Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders, Tony Marsh, Niko Meinhold, John Edwards, Alexander Hawkins, Matthias Muller or Frank Paul Schubert amongst others

Limulus

By Dominic Lash

Label: Spoonhunt
Released: 2021
Track listing: Alexithymia; Cylindrical; Dactyloscopy; From a theme by F.S.; Isthmus; Improvisation/Structures

Dominic Lash Quartet: Limulus

by John Sharpe
August 26, 2021

The third outing from British bassist Dominic Lash's Quartet continues in the vein of its predecessors, Opabinia (Babellabel, 2013) and Extremophile (Iluso, 2017), in respect of its eclecticism, but if anything is even more cohesive and successful as a result. Lash's crew remains unchanged comprising Alex Ward on electric guitar, and the Spanish pairing of Ricardo ...

Pushing the 'Jazz Envelope' a little further

by Bob Osborne
July 8, 2021

This show includes a selection of new releases which, whilst being part of the jazz family, bring in other musical elements. Ayumi Ishito brings distortion, unexpected percussive rhythms, and competing melodies into play for her debut album. Daniel Herskedal offers ambient reflections in a Scandanavian context. Andrew Van Tassel draws inspiration from a broad palette of ...

Dominic Lash: Extremophile

by John Sharpe
September 26, 2017

According to Wikipedia, an extremophile is an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth. By titling the second disc from his Quartet in this way you can't help but think that bassist Dominic Lash is drawing an analogy with the place of the improviser in the ...

Dominic Lash Quartet: Extremophile

by John Eyles
April 11, 2017

Back in 2012, the Dominic Lash Quartet combined bassist Lash and three players with whom he had at least five years playing experience, keyboardist Alexander Hawkins plus Spain's Ricardo Tejero on reeds and Javier Carmona on percussion. By the time the four recorded an album, Opabinia (Babel), in January 2013, they had gelled nicely.

Stones of Contention

Label: citystream
Released: 2014

Ensemble Progresivo: Hesitancy

by John Eyles
November 10, 2014

Ensemble Progresivo was formed in 2007 by saxophonist/clarinetist Ricardo Tejero after he had an idea of working with improvisation within a compositional context. Although he was not the first to have such an idea, Tejero says that his method of making music was born with the band. As with several other successful London-based improvising ensembles (Roland ...

Dominic Lash: Opabinia

by John Sharpe
March 4, 2014

As British bassist Dominic Lash explains in the liners to his Quartet's debut Opabinia, both the album and several of the tracks on it are named after extinct creatures excavated as fossils from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia. That inspiration arises from both the fabulous nature of the animals and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's musings ...

Dominic Lash and Ricardo Tejero together

by John Eyles
January 26, 2014

Among a host of other activities too numerous to catalogue, bassist Dominic Lash and saxophonist / clarinetist Ricardo Tejero are both long-standing stalwarts of the London Improvisers Orchestra, so it was almost inevitable that they would gravitate towards each other in a smaller grouping at some point, as had happened with other LIO regulars. But, as ...