Marcelo Peralta

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Marcelo Peralta (born March 5, 1961 in Buenos Aires ; † March 10, 2020 in Madrid ) was an Argentine jazz musician ( saxophone , also piano and accordion).

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Peralta studied piano and music theory at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven , where he received his teaching certificate in 1979. He started playing the saxophone at the age of 18. Since 1980 he has been teaching saxophone and improvisation at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla in his hometown. In addition, he initially worked as a studio musician. With the guitarist Jorge Mancini, the saxophonist Mariana Potenza and the percussionist Victor Da Cunha, he founded the Grupo de Improvisación Tercer Mundo , which released their album Un Hilo de Luz in 1987 . The following year he recorded with the pianist Eduardo Lagos . Together with César Franov, Enrique Norris, Carlos Triolo, Diego Pojomovsky and Guillermo Bazzola, he presented his album Escaleras de la Comprensión (Melopea Records 1991), on which he combined contemporary jazz with Latin American folklore. In the early 1990s he toured mainly with the big band Los Saxópatas . In 1997 his album Milonga (Melopea Records) was released.

Peralta lived in Madrid since 1996. There he founded the Marcelo Peralta Quartet , with which he performed in various European countries. In 2005 he performed works by Pepe Nieto , Gunther Schuller and Leonard Bernstein as a soloist with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra . With the Dr. Macaroni Brass Band he presented the album Cum Laude ( TCB 2003). In 2009 he founded the trio ZAS with Baldo Martínez and "Sir Charles" González , which released an album in 2013. He also taught.

On his 59th birthday, Peralta was admitted to hospital, where he died five days later of complications from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. He is considered to be the first jazz musician to die of COVID-19 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Entry (Radioswissjazz)
  2. Entry ( All About Jazz )
  3. El saxofonista argentino Marcelo Peralta murió por coronavirus en Madrid