Manuel Villarroel

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Manuel Villarroel (born August 24, 1944 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean jazz musician ( piano , also Fender Rhodes , congas , composition ) who works mainly in France.

Live and act

Villarroel, who took piano lessons at the Conservatory, attended a Louis Armstrong concert with his parents in 1957 . Since 1963 he attended jazz concerts with his younger brother Patricio, who played drums, and also began to improvise with him. With their cousin Arturo Bórquez as a double bass player, they founded Minton's Trio , which performed publicly in Santiago from 1965. He now received lessons from Mariano Casanova and joined the circle of pianist Matías Pizarro, who was interested in avant-garde playing styles. From 1969 he led a quartet. In 1970 he went to Berlin for three months to attend a contemporary music seminar. At the end of the year he moved to Paris. There he formed his septet Machi Oul , with whom he published his own compositions on the album Terremoto (1971). In the same year he founded the Machi Oul Big Band , for which he wrote compositions with a Latin American free jazz character and performed them all over Europe ( Quetzalcoatl 1975).

After meeting Michel Portal , he founded the Trio Skuas together with Matías Pizarro and Patricio Villarroel in 1977 , which (initially under the name Trio de Nouvelle Musique Latino Americaine ) performed internationally until 1987, around 1985 at the JazzFest Berlin , and the albums El bandolero ( 1981) and Traversée (1983). Villarroel also played synthesizers there. Further albums followed with the Manuel Villarroel Trío (1999), the Latin jazz octet Machitoun (2011) and his New Latin Jazz Quartet (2012). He can also be heard on the album Perception & Friends (with Yochk'o Seffer , Didier Levallet and Jean-My Truong ) and on albums with Baikida Carroll , Armande Altaï, Joël Dugrenot, Jambao, the jazz rock band Boomerang and the Chilean jazz rock band Cometa .

Between 1971 and 2009 Villarroel taught at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental du Val d'Yerres . Between 1994 and 2009 he also worked at the Conservatoire Portes de l'Essonne .

Discographic notes

  • Septet Machi Oul: ( Futura Records 1971, with Sonny Gray , William Treve, Jeff Sicard, Gérard Coppéré, François Méchali , Jean-Louis Méchali )
  • Machi Oul Big Band: Quetzalcoatl (Palm Records 1976, with Alain Brunet, Jean-François Canape , Alphonse Leboucher, Josef Traindl , Gérard Coppéré, Hugh Levick, Jean Querlier, Jeff Sicard, François Méchali, Jean-Louis Méchali, Ana-Maria Villaroel , Patricio Villaroel, Claudio Bertoni, Keno Speller)
  • Skuas: Traversée (Aroc 1983, with Matías Pizarro, Patricio Villaroel)
  • Manuel Villarroel Trio (Transes Européennes 1999, with Gus Nemeth, François Ricard)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cometa (entry at Musica Popular) /
personal data
SURNAME Villarroel, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile