The tenor saxophonist, flutist and soprano, Victor Cuica, began his studies
at the Military Music School of La Victoria in 1963. His performances in the
Venezuelan navy band had its first close to Jazz and decided to study flute,
harmony and composition at the Escuela Superior de Musica Jose Angel Lamas "in
Caracas. He joined the orchestra of Chucho Sanoja and later became part of the
musical group’s bassist and singer Oscar de Leon, Read the rest of this entry »

 In 1987 begins in Barcelona, city of residence, his first forays into
dance as a company dancer with whom New Face acts in different venues such as La
Scala, Trauma and others. In 1988 he began an affair with the theater that takes
two years, working with the company "Family Matters." Continuing with the music
up joining the group as Tzaboo showgirl, with whom he released two discs in Dro
East-West company Read the rest of this entry »

Bing Crosby was born in the plush surroundings of the light music of Tin Pan
Alley and the commercial bands of the moment. He became the first Cronn history
after learning of singers like Gene Austin, Rudy Vallee and Russ Columbo a
series of "whisperers" named for his singing quietly and effortlessly. Crosby
always acknowledged his debt of gratitude to the general jazz and Louis
Armstrong in particular. Read the rest of this entry »

The extraordinary Neapolitan guitarist Henri Crolla, debuted in music very
young, playing the banjo, an instrument for the first time African-American
blues, on the terraces of Parisian cafes and frequenting a bohemian atmosphere
where art and culture manifested in profusion in the city on the Seine, where he
lived since his family moved to France.

In that environment, the master of European jazz, Django Reinhardt, Read the rest of this entry »

The studies and work as a classical percussionist and its development as a
jazz drummer and Latin popular music, especially that of Brazil, make Carlos
Cortes be recognized in Chile as an interpreter of character. This feature is in
the fact that apart from being a very good player technically and has
considerable strength, Cortes is a musician who is notable for what his
colleagues called wave, ie, Read the rest of this entry »

Chick Corea, piano is a unique simultaneous view of their musical training
between jazz and classical music. It was introduced in professional environments
in the mid-sixties of the hands of the percussionists Mongo Santamaria and
Willie Bobo and guided by his passion for Latin music accompanied many figures
of the time as Cal Tjader, Read the rest of this entry »

Georgia Natural, Ida Cox, also made the required learning circuits themselves
mainstrel and vaudeville blues singers of the nineteenth century. His voice was
less powerful than the two giants of blues, Ma Rainey or Bessie Smith, but he
knew the letters of intent charge of the blues, mostly composed by her. His
first major success was the song " Read the rest of this entry »

The excellent bassist Curtis Counce, got his first professional contract in
1941 with Nat Towles, with whom he would work until December 1944. After taking
up residence in Los Angeles, studied composition and arrangement with Murphy and
Lyle worked for four years in the group’s pianist Edgar Hayes. He continued his
solo career with size as the alto saxophonist Benny Carter, tenor sax, Wardel
Gray, in the orchestra of the singer Billy Eckstine and also accompanied the
master of bebop piano, Bud Powell. Read the rest of this entry »

Became interested in the study of a self-taught saxophone in 1990, having
been a guitarist of some blues bands and songwriters companion. Soon alternate
musical work, in local bands, both of Granada ( "Mais que nada Quintet", "Blues
Band de Granada") and Cadiz ( "the acrobats", "Note im Blues", "Blue") Read the rest of this entry »

Mexican drummer, Tino Contreras, is in his country and the world of Latin
jazz a true legend. Creator and composer, five decades in Mexico is renowned
worldwide. He has recorded over 40 albums in Argentina, Spain, France, Germany,
and of course, Mexico. In the forties as his first band "The cadets of the
swing" in his hometown of Juarez Chihuahua. He made his debut with the orchestra
of Luis Alcaraz in the early fifties on his first tour of South America and the
Caribbean. Read the rest of this entry »