Oscar Noriega

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Oscar Noriega (2016)

Oscar Noriega (* in Arizona ) is an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , bass clarinet , clarinet ).

Live and act

Oscar Noriega, who has Mexican roots, started playing the saxophone when he was ten; He gained his first professional experience in the family band with his four brothers in Tucson . After studying at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University , he moved to Los Angeles. From 1990 he lived in Boston , where he a. a. worked with the Duke Ellington Repertory Orchestra under the direction of Gunther Schuller , the Either / Orchestra and the Jazz Composers Alliance ; he also had lessons at the New England Conservatory of Music with Joe Maneri. He moved to Brooklyn in 1992 and has since played with members of the New York downtown jazz scene, performing at the Knitting Factory and Birdland . At the Brooklyn Jazz Club Barbès he has been in charge of an artistic and organizational series of events called Oscar Noriega's Palimpsestic Series since 2012 .

Since the early 2000s, Noriega has been leading his own band projects such as Play Party with Cuong Vu , Brad Shepik and Tom Rainey , with whom he released his debut album Luciano's Dream on OmniTone in 2000, and the Oscar Noriega Quartet . He also played in the Quartet Unit X and in the musician collective Sideshow , which reinterprets the works of Charles Ives . He also worked a. a. with Jane Wang , Judi Silvano , Ellery Eskelin , Kermit Driscoll , Gerry Hemingway , Carl Maguire , Mat Maneri , Satoko Fujii ( Blueprint , 2003), Ben Stapp , Michael Formanek ( The Distance , ECM, 2016) and Assif Tsahar ( The Labyrinth , 2002). Noriega currently plays in a quartet with Jim Black , Trevor Dunn and Chris Speed ( Endangered Blood , Skirl, 2010), and in Tim Berne's band project Los Totopos .

Web links

Commons : Oscar Noriega  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All That Brooklyn Jazz The borough is where it's at , Village Voice, January 23, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013
  2. ↑ Biographical portrait at Omnitone
  3. ↑ Concert announcement at My Daily News  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / events.nydailynews.com  
  4. ↑ See Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
  5. ^ Information at Bucknell.edu
personal data
SURNAME Noriega, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Arizona