Perico Sambeat Roneando

Perico Sambeat belongs to the jazz generation of musicians who became known in the 1980s, during the last great international emergence of the genre…

Music writen by Perico Sambeat except "Crazy She Calls Me" by Ben Sigman and Jaff Russell. Spanish alto saxophonist Perico Sambeat, sometimes heard in Britain with Guy Barker or Tim Garland, is a performer with echoes of Art Pepper, Lee Konitz and Eric Dolphy who is none the less an artist of imposing character within a straightish postbop context.

Perico Sambeat Ensemble - Plays Zappa (2016) {Nuba Records}
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Perico Sambeat to surprise with a proposal so irreverent as explosive. Valencian saxophonist has gathered an ensemble with milloret the Valencian scene to pay tribute to a musician so brutal and iconoclast Frank Zappa. The opportunity to hear the work of Zappa as jazz offers one of those memorable occasions that any fan of good music should not miss.

Lejos ahora de colores flamencos y del swing más rítmico, el nuevo proyecto nos presenta un jazz profundo y elaborado que explora las posibilidades de la orquesta. Con un grupo de músicos de confianza y espacios para la voz con toques mediterráneos, las composiciones del saxofonista brillan con luz propia. Además de las piezas escritas especialmente para la ocasión, Perico Sambeat da también nueva vida a algunos temas propios anteriores, como “Matilda”, que ahora se nos muestra en todo su esplendor.

Ziribuye es un disco de jazz con mayúsculas, aquí no vemos a Perico con su vena flamenquita sino que vemos al Perico más hardbopero rodeado de un sexteto que tiene química y con unos temas de esos que se te meten en la cabeza. El sonido del sexteto está condicionado por la textura del teclado de José Reinoso ofreciendo un concepto muy parecido al quinteto de Raynald, que está soberbio en este Ziribuye. Paco también se sale y hace un precioso solo en Cató-scopio. En Rosa dels vents podemos oír a la hermana de Sambeat cantando una bonita canción.

Javier Colina is considered to be one of the best bassist of the current European scene; an indispensable piece of the rhythmic basis that any group performing Latin fusions would desire. Marc Miralta is the second piece of this ideal rhythmic basis; the most versatile drummer of Spain and the one with greatest international projection. Perico Sambeat is one of the most distinguished saxophonist of Spain; a versatile musician who is prominent in the classical jazz as well in the most contemporary or in the fusions (especially with flamenco), always offering an elegant phrasing with his saxophone. A band that has been the basis of many projects of jazz and other styles like flamenco or Cuban music. A group who rely on style fusion, offering unrepeatable concerts in high connection with the audience.

Alto and soprano saxophonist Perico Sambeat is considered today as one of the most important spanish jazz musicians, owning a tremendous prestige with an extraordinary musical career inside and out of Spain. With more than twenty recordings as a leader and near a hundred as a sideman, they´re specially remarkable his works with musicians as Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tete Montoliu, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, and many others. Along his life, he´s received numerous awards, such as the "Bird Award" given by the North Sea Jazz Festival to the musician deserving wider recognition (2003), or the one given to the best recording of the year to "Flamenco Big Band" (2008 and 2009)

Over the years, valencian saxophonist Perico Sambeat has become a benchmark in the world of jazz. His prolific career has led him to share the stage at festivals and programming worldwide with artists like Dave Douglas, Sasseti Bernardo, Bob Sands, Chris Kase, George Colligan, Chano Dominguez … and burn discs among them with Crossroads Gerardo Nunez Meldhau Friendship with Brad, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jeff Ballard (edited by ACT, prestigious German label and international presence), or Flamenco big Band, Miguel Poveda, Javier Colina or Miralta and edited by Marc-Verve Universal.

Along with Paco de Lucia, Gerardo Nunez and Chano Dominguez, Perico Sambeat is one of the great figureheads of Spanish jazz. Outside Spain little is known of the recordings he made in 1993 and 1995 with Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner and Kurt Rosenwinkel. Though from the mutual appreciation that these musicians have for each other has evolved a close friendship.