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Jose Alberto Medina

Born: September 5, 1979

Pianist and composer from Las palmas de G.C. Spain. More info coming soon.

Oriol Roca

Born: September 17, 1979

Oriol didn’t always know he wanted to be a musician, let alone a percussion player. There was always music at home, though. He remembers listening to classical music recordings with his grandfather at a very early age and playing Beatles tunes on a beat up guitar along with his father and brother when he was in primary school. Drums came later. So did improvised music. He learned the drumming rudiments through a friend, then found himself studying with committed and experienced teachers such as his mentor, German drummer Jo Krause, who encouraged him to move to The Netherlands to study at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague

Tom Johnson

Born: May 13, 1967

Tom Johnson is excited about his latest project, the Shark quintet. “I think I’ve found a format where I can really explore what I want to express”, he explains. The band has an unusual instrumentation: trombone, two saxes, double bass and drums. “This is a great opportunity to get stuck in” Isn’t it difficult to create harmonic interest with this line-up? “Definitely not.” Johnson is convinced; “the fact that we have no harmonic instrument has two important implications. First, it means that we can construct a harmony between all of us. When I write I can use up to four notes if I wish to and that’s more than enough to create a rich harmony

Alexis Cuadrado

Born: January 25, 1971

A native of Barcelona and resident in New York since 1999, Alexis Cuadrado is an active member of the city¹s jazz scene. He currently leads the Alexis Cuadrado Quartet, an outlet for his compositions, and the band Alexis Cuadrado-Trio Ibérico, in which he explores his Spanish heritage mixing it with contemporary improvised music. Cuadrado has published two CDs as a leader: Metro (Fresh Sound New Talent 2001) and Visual (FSNT 2004). These CD include all-original compositions and have received enthusiastic reviews from both critics and fans. He can also be heard in the 3 Cds of the band Algu�-mia (U, Dos, and Standards) that he co-lead in Spain in the 1990¹s

Bruce Arkin

Born: November 28, 1967

Saxophonist, drummer, singer, songwriter, Bruce graduated Berklee in Boston in 1991, then moved to Brooklyn. After 5 years in New York, moved to Florida to teach. Feeling the rise of fascism, he moved to Barcelona and has been writing and playing there to an ever growing appreciation. Playing with Jorge Rossy,Kenny Wollesen, Albert Sanz, Guillermo Kline, Reid Andersen, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ethan Iverson, and others has made his stay in Spain a good one... His recording on Fresh Sound records "Wake Up!" has been met with glowing reviews by those who have heard it. (such as the list of cats above)

Pere Masafret Marcé

Marc Crivillé Arnaus

Després d'haver cursat els estudis superiors de música, comença la seva aventura en la música moderna i jazz. Fent classes amb Jon Robles i seminaris amb Alfons Carrascosa, Mark Turner, Perico Sambeat, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Roman Filiu, Jesus Santandreu, Mario Rossy, Nasheet Watts, Ben Street, Michael P.Moosman, Bruce Barth, Chris Higgins, Arturo O'Farril, Horacio "El Negro" Hernàndez... És "Premi Nacional de l'Ensenyament de les Arts 1999-Música del Segle XX" i finalista del concurs de música moderna i jazz de Vic. Membre de diversos grups de jazz, ha tocat amb: Roger Mas, Goran Slavich, Bori Albero, David Garcia, Oriol Roca, Daniel Copquin, Pere Loewe, Marc Ayza, Pau Bombardo, Jordi Gardeñas, Jaume Llompart, Juanma Nieto...

Carles Benavent

Born: March 1, 1954

The product of a musical crossroads, a border, a meeting place between very different cultures, but dominated by jazz and flamenco, the career of Carles Benavent began in a watershed year for Europe, 1968, in the popular and endearing Barcelonan neighborhood of Poble Sec when, at the tender age of 13, he formed his first group, Crack, which in 1970 became Máquina!. From an explosive clash to the perfectly-oiled machinery of teamwork. Five years later, together with Joan Albert Amargós, he founded Música Urbana, Spain's flagship of jazz-fusion.

Starting in the late 70’s, appearing in various groupings throughout the country, his name began to figure alongside those of the most distinguished musicians on the Spanish jazz scene, such as Kitflus Tito Duarte and Max Sunyer, with whom he formed a trio filled out by Salvador Niebla.

Xavier Casellas

Born: May 15

I was born in Calella, a town by the Mediterranean near Barcelona, Spain. My father was definetly not a musician, but he had this obsession with the great old crooners and big bands from the 40's. Frank Sinatra, conducted by Nelson Riddle, Tony Bennet, Ella Fitzgerald and Loui Armstrong, Nat Cole, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington... and so many others. All those great musicians and singers use to open wide my ears and my soul to a music that I always felt very close. I spent hours singing along to the vinyl records that he used to play all the time. Many years later, and I bet my "singalongs" had a lot to do with it, I made a profession out of singing

Alejandro Bizzotto

Born: August 21, 1981