Pedro Giraudo

Pedro Giraudo (* 1977 in Córdoba ) is an Argentine jazz and tango musician ( double bass , arrangement , composition ) and band leader .

Live and act

Giraudo moved to New York in 1996, where he soon arranged for Pablo Ziegler , Kenny Garrett and William Cepeda . As a bass player he worked with Paquito D'Rivera , Branford Marsalis , Néstor Torres , Miguel Zenón and Regina Carter, among others . He was the musical director of Mariela Franganillo Company's Tango Connection and Tango Recuerdo ; He has also performed with tango groups such as Forever Tango , Hector Del Curtos Eternal Tango , Fernando Oteros X-Tango , Octavio Brunetti's Urban Tango Trio and Daniel Binelli's Tango Metropolis . He is also first bassist with the Hudson Symphony Orchestra and the Música de Cámara String Ensemble .

In 2000 Giraudo presented his debut album; meanwhile he maintains several bands of his own, mainly in a line-up between sextet and big band . The WDR Big Band Cologne brought him in 2016 for the program “Argentina - New York”, where he built an “energetic and artistic mixture of different musical forms, styles and epochs” with the soloists of the Big Band and Bodek Janke as a musical bridge.

Prizes and awards

His album El Viaje (2009) received several awards from the Latin Jazz Corner , as did the album Córdoba (2011). He played bass on Rubén Blades ' CD Tangos , which received two Grammies in 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Argentina - New York ( Memento of May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Giraudo, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentinian jazz and tango musician
DATE OF BIRTH	1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cordoba (Argentina)

[1] Argentina - New York ( Memento of May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )