Ramón López (musician)

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Ramón López (born August 6, 1961 in Alicante ) is a Spanish jazz drummer and improvisation musician .

Ramón López (2013)

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López learned to play the drums by himself in the mid-1970s ; a solo concert by Max Roach in 1980 became a key experience for him. He played in local bands before moving to Paris in 1985 , where he was soon involved in the experimental improvisation scene and studied at Alan Silva's music school . He also learned tabla with Krishna Govinda KC, then became a student of Subhankar Banerjee and taught Indian music with Patrick Moutal between 1994 and 2001 at the Paris Conservatory. He belonged to the groups of Marc Steckar , François Cotinaud , Claude Tchamitchian , Jean-Marie Machado and Jean-Marc Padovani . In 1997 he presented an album on Leo Records that exclusively presented him as a soloist on drums (the follow-up album Swinging with Doors was released in 2007). On his other albums he first dealt with music from the Spanish Civil War and the work of Roland Kirk . Between 1997 and 2000 he was the drummer in the Orchester National de Jazz (then directed by Didier Levallet ) , with which he recorded three albums. Since 2006 he has formed a trio with Joachim Kühn and Majid Bekkas . He has also worked with musicians as diverse as Glenn Ferris , Sonny Fortune , Charles Gayle , Anthony Coleman , Christine Wodrascka , Ivo Perelman and Joe Fonda . With Agustí Fernández he plays in a trio with Baldo Martínez and Barry Guy addition, he has increasingly with Flamenco busy and with musicians such as Carmen Linares, Esperanza Fernández, Inés Bacán, Gerardo Núñez , Rafael de Utrera, Jean-Marc Foussat or Chano Domínguez played .

In 2008 he was made a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

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Commons : Ramón López  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
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SURNAME López, Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Alicante