- country:Chile
- style(s):Jazz, Latin
- label:AÏDO
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Aïdo Sarl
Touch of Jazz on the Chilean Popular Music.
The project of Alvaro Bello is born of the desire to create a bridge between Jazz music and Latin American music and especially the Popular Chilean Music by integrating certain rhythmic and melodious South-American elements like trutruka (traditional mapuche instrument), some Indian Mapuch songs, some rhythms like Lando and Cueca, or the remake of some songs emblematic of the Chilean dictatorship revisited in valse. A Jazz personal, coloured et spicy which he represents with his first album "Melaolegria" (Night & Day 2006) unanimously praised by critics
Alvaro Bello, born in Chili in a family of musicians, initiates in music very early. He starts with violin and piano and then chooses guitar. He is on the third "side" of a triangle of Chilean Jazz guitarists who, at the end of 80s, would make a way between the end of forced silence et a generation of musicians who occupy all place and programs. Angel Parra (son) and Pedro Rodriguez are the two other guitarists.
After having studies, among others, in the Roberto Lecaros School et often played in the Jazz club of Santiago and "L'atelier", Alvaro Bello packs off to come to France in order to perfection himself. He gets a first prize for Jazz guitar at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Pantin, participates in the Master Class of Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Mike Stern etc. And then he spends his time in composition (Jazz, songs, music for theatres, pubs etc. ) and becomes "sideman" and or arranger for various artists like Enzo Enro, Cyrius, Raul Paz, Barbara Luna, Angel Parra etc. In 2004, he records Paroli of Enzo Enzo and signs two titles of the album. He also records Revolucion of Raul Paz with who he is presently on tour.
"Meloalegria" is the first personal opus of this Chilean jazzman. Among the 11 titles recorded, only El Pueblo Unido (marche de Sergio Ortega revisited in valse) and Piensa en mi (of Agustin Lara, rearranged for two guitarists) don't bear the signature of Bello. The reste of his compositions are a deployment of open rhythms in acoustic quartets on which he wrote music thus confirming to us that his "action" is also aimed at arrangement and music direction. For this purpose, he got himself surrounded by musicians like Marc Berthoumieux, Laurent Vernerey, Didier Ithursarry, Laurent Bellante etc.