Diego Amador

With influences which range from Tomatito and Paco de Lucia to Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans, acoustic pianist Diego Amador can be an experimental, risk-taking instrumentalist who fuses Spanish flamenco with jazz (mostly post-bop, although he’s hip to fusion and avant-garde jazz, aswell). The Spanish musician/composer is not a purist with regards to flamenco; a completely traditional flamenco musician wouldn’t possess documented a piece from the past due electrical bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius (“Continuum”). And Amador’s primary device, the acoustic piano, is definitely hardly flamenco’s primary device — some flamenco purists even would claim that the term “flamenco pianist” can be an oxymoron, and that the classical guitar may be the only flamenco instrument. non-etheless, Amador offers clearly perfected flamenco forms like the bulería as well as the solea, and he combines them with a solid gratitude of post-bop pianists like Jarrett, Evans, and Corea (that has attempted flamenco on lots of events). Although the majority of Amador’s jazz affects result from the post-bop world, he appreciates fusion (Pastorius certainly performed fusion) and sometimes acknowledges free of charge jazz as well as the avant-garde. Amador comes with an inside/outside perspective — most likely about 85-to-90 percent inside, ten-to-15 percent outside — and periodically the influence from the iconoclastic Cecil Taylor (the main pianist in the annals of free of charge jazz) asserts itself. Theoretically, Amador’s music is Latin jazz; flamenco is definitely Latin music, and Amador is definitely merging it with jazz. However the term Latin jazz offers usually been utilized to spell it out a mixture of jazz and Afro-Cuban jazz rhythms — a thing that Cal Tjader, Poncho Sanchez, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, Machito, and Dizzy Gillespie possess all been known for — and that’s not Amador’s specialty. As a result, you need to end up being as specific as you possibly can and explain Amador’s are flamenco jazz or Spanish jazz (that could also explain Mls Davis’ Sketches of Spain plus some of Corea’s function). Amador (who has the classical guitar as another instrument) was created in Seville, Spain in 1973. He originated from an extremely musical family members; his old brothers Raimundo and Rafael Amador performed acoustic guitar within the well-known ’80s nuevo flamenco clothes Pata Negra, and his curiosity about music was also inspired by his dad (who brought him a Hammond body organ when he was a youngster). Amador do something very uncommon with that device — he utilized it to try out bulerías — and he continued to use his understanding of flamenco towards the acoustic piano. In August 2002, the pianist captured the eye of two different people from Illusion Information: Ralph Kaffel and Costs Belmont, who have been going to Barcelona, Spain for the convention and went to one of is own concerts. In a short time, Amador signed using the Fantasy-owned Milestone label, and in November 2002, he documented his debut record, Piano Jondo, in Madrid. Piano Jondo, which Amador organized and co-produced, premiered on Milestone/Illusion in america in July 2003.