Chilo Moran

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Chilo Moran (actually Cecilio Morán Arroyo , born November 19, 1930 in Concordia , Sinaloa , Mexico , † April 8, 1999 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican jazz trumpeter and band leader .

Live and act

Morán was born in the small mountain town of Concordia. At the age of twelve he played the trumpet in his father Genaro Morán's orchestra. From 1948 he studied trumpet and music theory at the municipal music school in Mexico City (Escuela Libre de Música de la Ciudad de México) a. a. with José F. Vázquez. In 1951 he founded his first band. Then he played u. a. in the orchestras of Luis Alcaraz , Dámaso Pérez Prado , Ismael Díaz and Arturo Núñez . In particular with Perez Prado he had his first successes as a solo trumpeter. In 1955 he played on the first rock 'n' roll album in Mexico with pianist Mario Patrón and singer Gloria Ríos . In 1955 he joined the orchestra of the singer and composer Agustín Lara (1897-1970), in which he was solo trumpeter and later became director. He was the first in Mexico, where jazz was in a difficult position, to present it as an art form in the Palacio de Bellas Artes (1962).

From 1967 he toured with his own orchestra with the singer Lenny Andrade , Mario Patron on piano, Victor Ruiz Pazos on bass, Rodolfo Popo Sánchez on alto saxophone, Javier Zainos on drums and José de Jesús Muñoz (percussion) for five years in the USA, under among others in San Francisco, Chicago, Las Vegas and New York.

In 1971 he was recognized by the Mexican music journalists (Asociación de Periodismo Especializado de la República Mexicana) as the best jazz musician and for the best jazz band. In 1983 he became an honorary citizen of his hometown Concordia and in 1994 he was also honored by the city of Mazatlán for his services to jazz in Mexico. In 1998 he received the highest award of the Mexican Musicians' Union, the Mario Ruiz Armengol medal .

In Mexico he could not concentrate solely on jazz and also arranged for singers and orchestras in the broader spectrum of light music and folklore, appeared in film and telenovelas as an actor and worked for television as a musician, which he brought to prosperity. But he returned to jazz, founded a quintet in 1991 and played in a duo with the pianist Leonardo Corona (album Mexican Favorites ).

He and his bands played at Mexican jazz festivals, some of which he helped initiate, such as the 1959 Festival of the University City (Ciudad Universitaria) or the 1981 of Tijuana . In the early 1980s he toured Asia with Paul Mauriat's orchestra .

In Mexico City he had several jazz bars with live music as early as the 1950s, including the Jazz Bar . They were an important venue for young Mexican jazz musicians.

The starting trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was also impressed by Moran's skills on a goodwill tour for the US government in Mexico in the 1980s.

In the course of his career he played a. a. with Chico O'Farrill , Sérgio Mendes , Frank Sinatra .

He died of complications from diabetes . His son Pepe Morán is also a jazz musician (pianist).

literature

  • Mario Martini La Patria Íntima / Todos Somos Sinaloa
  • Alain Derbez, Susana Sanroma El Jazz en México , Fondo de Cultura Enconimica 2001 (with interview by Chilo Moran)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gloria Rios website, Spanish
  2. ^ Robert Aymes Jazz Development in Mexico , International Jazz Archives Journal, Volume II, Issue 2, 1999/2000, Mario Martini, La Talacha 2010 on the visit of Marsalis with the biography of Moran, see web links.
personal data
SURNAME Moran, Chilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moran, chilo; Morán Arroyo, Cecilio (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican band leader and jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Concordia , Sinaloa
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1999
Place of death Mexico city