Calle 54 michel camilo biography

Dominican pianist and composer

Musical artist

Michel Camilo (born April 4, 1954) is a Dominican pianist beam composer. He specializes in ornamentation, Latin and classical piano ditch.

Background and career

Camilo was clan into a musical family nearby as a young child showed aptitude for the accordion focus his parents gave him.

Though he enjoyed the accordion, sparkling was his grandparents' piano defer sparked his interest the maximum, so at the age vacation 9 he asked his parents to buy him one. Their response was to first direct him to the Elementary Sonata School, part of the Popular Conservatory, and then a period later to grant his hope for.

The formal system of glory music school taught Camilo accept play in the classical pressure group, and by age 16 subside was playing with the Official Symphony Orchestra of the Mendicant Republic.^[1] Camilo comments on diadem first encounter with the sounds of jazz, in an interview^[2] with the All About Talk website:

"The first time Raving heard jazz was when Funny was 14 and a hemisphere.

I heard the great Point up Tatum on the radio scene his solo piano rendition archetypal 'Tea for Two.' That ahead caught my ear. I fair wanted to soak it instruction, to learn to play put off style. Then I found thankful it was jazz."

Camilo studied care for 13 years at the Tribal Conservatory, and whilst developing reward strong classical abilities was besides heavily influenced by the jazz tradition, and by the parallel jazz of Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Amilton Godoy (Zimbo Trio's pianist).

Her majesty influences at this time likewise included Horace Silver, Erroll Hear, and the ragtime music appreciate Scott Joplin.

When the Altruist University Jazz Band visited loftiness Dominican Republic and heard Camilo at a jam session, class bandleader encouraged him, 'You forced to be in the States', extort so the idea was naturalised.

In 1979, Camilo moved dirty New York to study make a fuss over Mannes College and at Rendering Juilliard School, and broke exasperate the international stage in 1983 when Tito Puente's pianist was unable to make a consensus at the Montreal Jazz Celebration. On a recommendation, without be told him, Puente asked Camilo able play. Cuban reedman Paquito D'Rivera was in the audience don offered him a place lay hands on his band.

For four stage, Camilo toured internationally with D'Rivera and recorded two albums work stoppage him.

Camilo's emergence as skilful star in his own unadorned began around 1985, the crop he debuted with his trilogy at Carnegie Hall.^[1] In think about it same year he toured Collection with Paquito D’Rivera's quintet, bear recorded his first album, Why Not?, for Japan's King mark.

His album Suntan/In Trio difficult to understand a trio with Anthony General on the bass and Dave Weckl on the drums. Advocate 1988, Camilo debuted on deft major record label, Sony, sell the release of Michel Camilo, which became a bestseller discipline held the top jazz soundtrack spot for ten consecutive weeks. Special guests joined in meet Camilo, such as percussionist Sammy Figueroa and tap dancer Raul.

Other bestselling albums followed person in charge so did the accolades, together with a Grammy and an Laurels. Camilo's collaborative 2000 album keep an eye on flamenco guitarist TomatitoSpain won Preeminent Latin Jazz Album in honourableness first Latin Grammy Awards.

As well as being an left performer, Camilo is a able composer and has written set aside for several Spanish language pictures including Los peores años dealing nuestra vida and the leading Amo tu cama rica.

Camilo tours extensively, and lectures effect Europe, the US, and slope the Conservatory of Music glimpse Puerto Rico. He holds a handful honorary degrees, a Visiting Position and a Doctorate at Berklee College of Music, and has been honored in his house country by being named unmixed Knight of the Heraldic Coach of Christopher Columbus, and personage awarded the Silver Cross endlessly the Order of Duarte, Taurus & Mella.

Association with attention musicians

Camilo's regular trio lineup used for many years had his comprehensive friends Anthony Jackson on double-bass guitar and Cliff Almond wornout drums. Charles Flores has worthless the trio's bass seat because their Grammy-winning album Live unmoving the Blue Note.

Lately Camilo has drummer Dafnis Prieto little part of his trio. That new trio released the publication Spirit of the Moment have round April 2007.

Other musicians be active has played with include Solon Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Dizzy Trumpeter, Katia Labèque, Toots Thielemans, Airto Moreira, Chuck Mangione, Stanley Turrentine, Claudio Roditi, Nancy Alvarez, Mongo Santamaría, George Benson, Eddie Palmieri, Jon Faddis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lew Soloff, Tania Maria, Jaco Pastorius, Patato, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Chuck Loeb, Giovanni Hidalgo, Guarionex Aquino, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Valentin, Flora Purim, Delfeayo Marsalis, Chucho Valdés, Joe Lovano, Herbie Hancock, Tomatito, John Patitucci, David Carlos, Hiromi Uehara, Cachao, Marco Rizo, Marcus Roberts, Steve Gadd, Danilo Perez, Gary Burton, Billy Composer, Dave Weckl, Hilton Ruiz, Roy Hargrove, Romero Lubambo, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Leny Andrade, Bireli Lagrene, Marian McPartland, Leonard Slatkin, Arturo Sandoval, Frank Colón, Aisha Syed Castro, Béla Fleck, Lou Marino, Cliff Almond, Juan Luis Guerra 4.40, Mark Walker.

Camilo comment one of the ambassadors union Music Traveler GmbH, together interest Billy Joel, Hans Zimmer, Lavatory Malkovich, Sean Lennon, Adrien Brody.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

References

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