Bernardo Baraj

Bernardo Baraj (born August 19, 1944 in Bernal ) is an Argentine jazz saxophonist.

Baraj had piano lessons as a child, then studied clarinet and eventually switched to saxophone. In the early 1960s, he was a member of the rock group Cueva de Pueyrredon for four years , with whom he toured Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia and recorded several albums.

With the trumpeter Gustavo Bergalli , the bassist Adalberto Cevasco and the drummer Nestor Astarita he founded the free jazz group Cuarteto Buenos Aires . With the Big Band of Alberto Favero he recorded the Suite Trane , a homage to the saxophonist John Coltrane .

In 1970 Baraj founded the fusion group Alma y Viva (with Alberto Hualde , Carlos Mellino , Carlos Villalba , Juan Barrueco and Mario Salvador ). With the group, five albums were created by 1976. He also played in Edelmiro Molinari's band Color Humano and in Rodolfo Alchourron's group Sanata y Clarificación , with which two albums were created.

After appearances with Litto Nebbia ( Cuarteto Contemporáneo del Sur ), Luis Alberto Spinetta ( La Banda Spinetta ) and Adriana Varela , he recorded an album with Rubén Rada and Jorge Navarro in 1979 and the tango album Nostalgias with Juan Barrueco in 1980 . He also played on Dino Saluzzi's album Río Bermejo .

At the Teatro Colón he worked as an orchestral musician in the performance of Prokofiev's opera Romeo and Juliet . In 1985 he founded a trio with Lito Vitale and Lucho González , with whom he performed at the Festival de Cosquín 1986 in front of 10,000 listeners and whose first album El Trío was sold around 35,000 times.

In 1991 Baraj founded a quintet with Mariana Baraj , Marcelo Baraj , Gustavo Liamgot and Miguel Cichietti , with whom he recorded three albums. Since the 1990s he has increasingly devoted himself to theater projects. He performed with the group Tango x 2 at the Teatro San Martín , at the 1992 World Exhibition in Seville and at the Cervantino Festival in Mexico. Under the direction of Leonor Manso , he and his quintet took part in the Espejos y Laberintos program in honor of Jorge Luis Borges. He also participated as an actor in Manuel Callau's play Aquemarropa . He received an award at the Santa Fé Film Festival for the original compositions for María Pilotti's 1977 documentary , Casa Tomada .

With the singer Adriana Varela Baraj performed in Spain, France, Portugal, England, Italy, Chile and Uruguay; he also accompanied the singer Susana Rinaldi . In 2002 he took part as a soloist on the Japan tour Tango Argentino en Okinawa 2002 . In 2005 he took part as a multi-instrumentalist, singer and dancer in Mirta Braylan's show Desde el Alma .

Discography

• Alma y Vida , 1971
• Alma y Vida, volume 2 , 1972
• Del gemido de un gorrión , 1973
• Alma y Vida, volume 3 , 1973
• Alma y vida, volume 4 , 1974
• Alma y vida, volume 5 , 1976
• Baraj-Barrueco
• Nostalgias , 1980
• Dino Saluzzi: Río Bermejo
• Baraj / Vitale / González: El Trio , 1985
• Baraj / Vitale / González , 1986
• Bernardo Baraj Quinteto , 1991
• Almita , 1995
• Milonga Borgeana (homage to Jorge Luis Borges )
• Tangueando (with Alfredo Remus and Juanjo Hermida ), 2004

Web links

• Homepage of Bernardo Baraj