Lucas Pino

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Lucas Pino (born April 19, 1987 in Phoenix ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , clarinet , composition , also flute) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Pino gained his first musical experience in the church choir and in the school choir; at the age of ten he started playing the saxophone. As a high school student, he received a scholarship in 2004, the Down Beat Student Music Award for Best Instrumental Soloist, and studied from 2005 to 2007 at the Brubeck Institute with Dave Brubeck ; He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in jazz performance from The New School in New York City in 2009 and his Master of Music in 2011 from the Juilliard School .

From the 2000s Pino worked in the American jazz scene with musicians such as Curtis Fuller , Benny Golson , Jimmy Heath , Christian McBride , Carl Allen , Benny Green and David Sanborn ; first recordings were made in 2005 with saxophonist Chris Stewart in Arizona ( Phoenix ). In the following years he played with musicians such as Lea DeLaria , Gideon van Gelder, Takuya Kuroda , Richard Boukas, David Lopato, Lauren Desberg, Rafal Sarnecki , Nick Finzer , Jeremy Siskind, Dave Baron , Alex Wintz, Jorn Swart, Marike van Dijk , Steven Lugerner and Florian Höfner . Pino has directed the No Net Nonet since 2009 , with whom he has performed once a month in New York's Smalls since 2013 ; the debut album was released in 2015. Between 2005 and 2018 he was involved in 18 recording sessions in the field of jazz.

According to Jack Bowers ( All About Jazz ), Pino's compositions are reminiscent of those of Charles Mingus and Bob Brookmeyer . In 2018 the third album by Pinos Non No Nonet was released; This title That's a Computer refers to the unfriendly and dismissive comment of a former teacher of Pino at Juilliard School after hearing about his compositional work.

Discographic notes

  • Yellow Flower with Snail (2008)
  • No Net Nonet ( Origin Records , 2015), with Mat Jodrell, Nick Finzer, Alex LoRe , Andrew Gutauskas , Glenn Zaleski , Rafal Sarnecki, Desmond White, Colin Stranahan
  • Nick Finzer, Lucas Pino, Alex Wintz, Glenn Zaleski, Dave Baron, Jimmy Macbride : Hear & Now (Outside in Music, 2017)
  • Lucas Pino No Net Nonet: The Answer Is No (Inside Out, 2017), with Alex LoRe, Andrew Gutauskas, Mat Jodrell, Nick Finzer, Rafat Sarnecki, Glenn Zaleski, Desmond White, Jimmy Macbride
  • Lucas No Net Nonet: That's a Computer (2018), Alex LoRe, Mat Jodrell, Nick Finzer, Andrew Gutauskas, Rafal Sarnecki, Glenn Zaleski, Desmond White, Jimmy Macbride, Camila Meza

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b entry (AllAboutJazz)
  2. ↑ a b Lucas Pino. Smalls, November 13, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 13, 2018)
  4. ↑ Jack Bowers: Lucas Pino No Net Nonet: The Answer Is No. All About Jazz, December 28, 2017, accessed November 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Dave Brownlow: CD Review: Lucas Pino's 'No Net Nonet' - That's A Computer. Bebop spoken here, November 13, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pino, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix