Diego Urcola

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Diego Urcola at the International Jazz Festival of Punta del Este 2015

Diego Urcola (born November 5, 1965 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , also composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Urcola comes from a family of musicians; his father is a music teacher and played jazz with his friends every week . From the age of new he received lessons at the music department of the Colegio parish, where his father Ruben acted as director. First he studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Buenos Aires. After receiving a scholarship to study abroad, he moved to Boston, where he studied at Berklee College of Music . In 1990 he received his diploma with a focus on jazz performance . Soon after, he moved to New York to continue his studies at Queens College and to work in the local music scene. In 1997 he received his Masters in Jazz Performance from Queens College in New York. In the same year Urcola received the second place in the International Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition .

In the mid-1990s he toured with Slide Hampton and in the United Nations Orchestra founded by Dizzy Gillespie under the direction of Paquito D'Rivera . He also worked for a short time at Wynton Marsalis , a. a. with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Urcola has been a member of the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet since 1991 and has worked regularly with the Caribbean Jazz Project since 2004 . He has also performed with Jimmy Heath and Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All Star Big Band .

From the 2000s, Urcola u. a. with Joe Henderson , Steve Turre ( Sanctified Shells ), with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and with Wayne Shorter on a television show called The 2nd Annual Celebration of America's Music , which aired on ABC. He also played with Milt Jackson and was a member of the International Vamp Band, a group founded by bassist Avishai Cohen . In 2001 he received a Grammy with the D'Rivera quintet ; the following year Urcola, who worked again with D'Rivera, took part in the musical documentary Calle 54 . This was followed by tours through Europe, the USA and Latin America as the Calle 54 All Star Band.

Urcola released a number of albums under his own name, first Libertango (1999); his album Soundances , which he recorded in Buenos Aires with top musicians there, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album in 2005, as was his production Viva in 2007. According to Tom Lord , he was in the field of jazz between 1989 and Involved in 54 recording sessions in 2015, including a. also with Dee Dee Bridgewater , Gladys Carbo , Freddie Bryant , Jason Lindner , Claudia Acuña , Danilo Perez , Guillermo Klein , Pablo Aslan , Chano Domínguez , Enrico Pieranunzi , David Weiss , Brian Lynch . Currently (2019) Urcola leads a quartet that includes Francisco Figueras (clarinet), Hamish Smith (bass) and Franco Pinna (drums).

Discographic notes

Diego Urcola at the International Jazz Festival of Punta del Este 2015

Web links

Commons : Diego Urcola  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e portrait
  2. ↑ a b Diego Urcola, Trumpet. Smalls, November 1, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Urcola, Diego
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine jazz musician (trumpet)
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires