Jazz Articles about Ramon Valle

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Ramon Valle: The Amsterdam transplant remains rooted in Cuba

by Joan Gannij
October 3, 2017

After transplanting himself to Amsterdam 20 years ago, Ramon Valle's island roots still run deep. Valle was raised in the eastern part of Cuba, in Holguin, in a musical family, with a trumpeter father, a mother who sang and recited poems, and five sisters; four who played piano, and another who was a multi-instumentalist, playing saxophone, clarinet and flute.. He started studying piano and trumpet at age seven, under the tutelage of his father, and muses. “I was playing the ...

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44 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: Francesco Tristano, Ramon Valle Trio con Jesse Van Ruller y Fred Hersch

by Joan Fargas
November 19, 2012

Francesco Tristano44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaL'Auditori--Sala 231 de octubre 2012El joven pianista Francesco Tristano fue el encargado de abrir el ciclo del festival de jazz de Barcelona llamado Clàssics en la sala de cámara de L'Auditori. Toda una declaración de principios para un interesante ciclo sin prejuicios que abre la puerta a propuestas que transitan por las relaciones entre jazz y música clásica. Conocedor de sus antecedentes, el público asistía ...