Roman Filiú

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Román Filiú O'Reilly (born August 17, 1972 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban jazz musician ( tenor , alto and soprano saxophone ).

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Filiú comes from a family of musicians; and his father was one of the teachers of the pianists Aruan Ortíz and David Virelles . Filiú, who was influenced by Paul Hindemith and the Russian piano school, first learned the piano and gave public concerts at the age of eight; After suffering from asthma , he switched to the saxophone at the age of ten, which he studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. Since 1992 he has belonged to the group of Issac Delgado , with whom he also recorded.

He then worked as a saxophone professor at the National Music School (Escuela Nacional de Musica) in this city and in the studio with Dany Brillant . In 1997 Filiú joined the band Irakere , led by Chucho Valdés , as the successor to Paquito D'Rivera , of which he was a member until 2006. In 1997 he was involved in the recording of the album Babalú Ayé , which was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Awards ; two more albums with Irakere followed. He also played several albums with the Havana Jam Session project .

Filiú also played the alto saxophone on Chucho Valdés' album New Conceptions , which won a Grammy in 2004. Another important collaboration as a sideman was his work with David Murray ; he was the musical director of Murray's Latin Big Band on three albums that were made between 2002 and 2009. Filiu has also played and recorded with other major musicians such as Lázaro Ros , Compay Segundo , Omara Portuondo , Pablo Milanés , Doug Hammond , David Virelles, Gonzalo Rubalcaba , Dafnis Prieto , Steve Coleman , Henry Threadgill , Maria Grand and the group Incognito . Since 2005 he lived in Madrid and was also with Ojos de Brujo , Yelsy Heredia and the Dr. Macaroni Brass Band in the studio; He only came to New York in 2011, where he had already recorded the album Musae the previous year (with David Virelles, Reinier Elizarde , Marcus Gilmore , Dafnis Prieto and Adam Rogers ). Further albums under his own name followed, most recently in 2018 Quarteria with a septet.

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  1. ↑ a b c Biography (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Filiú, Román
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filiú O'Reilly, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban jazz musician (saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Cuba