Eladio Reinón

Eladio Reinón (* 1963 in Sedaví ) is a Spanish jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , clarinet , composition ).

Live and act

Reinón began taking music lessons at the age of ten in the urban banda of his hometown. At the age of nineteen he decided to settle in Barcelona. Together with Ricard Belda and Perico Sambeat , he completed his training as a jazz musician in Taller de Músics , where he has been teaching since 1993. In the early 1990s he took lessons from Andy Gonzalez in New York City .

In addition to his quintet, Reinón founded his big band Supercombo , with which he appeared several times at the Barcelona Jazz Festival. He concentrated on Latin American jazz early on and, initially with Tete Montoliu , transposed boleros into the jazz context. After his death he recorded two albums with Bebo Valdés for Fresh Sound Records , Aceré (1998) and Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite Nº1 (1999). The album A flor de pell (Jazztones, 2012) followed in 2012 with a quintet made up of Jaume Llombart, Mario Rossy , Yoan Sánchez and Luis Alfonso Guerra . He also presented albums with Jack Walrath , Idris Muhammad and Mario and Jordi Rossy .

Reinón teaches saxophone and ensemble as adjunct professor in the jazz department of the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya and in the jazz department of the Escula del Musical de Bellaterra , which he founded in 1991.

Prizes and awards

Reinón was awarded A-Free-K as the best group at the San Sebastian Festival in 1983 . In 1986 he won the prize for best interpreter at the National Jazz Festival in Palma de Mallorca. His album with Montoliu Es la Historia de un Amor was named "Best Album" in 1992 by the Association of Jazz Friends of Catalonia. In 2002 the same association honored him as the best big band conductor.

Web links

• Web presence with discography
• Entry (Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya)
• Eladio Reinón at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} portrait (Jazz amb Gel)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entrevista a Eladio Reinón