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MP3 Victor Prieto - Persistencia
9 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: World Fusion, JAZZ: Latin Jazz
Details:
Victor Prieto Trio.
Victor Prieto (accordion), Carlo De Rosa (bass) and Allison Miller (drums)
All selections by Victor Prieto except 1,4,& 7.
Recorded on June 9, 2005.
Produced by Victor Prieto and Foxhaven Records. Recorded by Jon Miller at Foxhaven Studios, Sandy Spring, MD. Mixed by George Petit at Manhattan Center Studios, NY. Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Loge, NY. Photography: Jon Miller. Package Design: Jon Miller. Executive producer: Carlo De Rosa.
Since moving to New York City in the Fall of 2002 I have had the opportunity to develop my own ideas and learn from other musicians on a daily basis. I met Carlo De Rosa two years ago at a gig he was playing in Williamsburg (Brooklyn). I was very impressed by his playing and asked him to be a part of the trio I was forming. Carlo introduced me to many great musicians including Allison Miller. We played a gig at a small French bistro in Manhattan and the musical connection between us was immediately apparent. This is the result of that connection. On this recording I show many musical aspects of the accordion that have not been heard before. I use the accordion more like a piano while comping and like a saxophone when playing a solo. Harmonically I have developed a new technique to accompany on the accordion, getting colors and textures that I once thought were impossible. I enjoy lyricism and melody, however, I like to incorporate more contemporary phrasing and sounds into both my improvisation and compositions. It adds a new dimension to the accordion that has not yet been explored. I hope you enjoy the trio and our music.
"Prieto plays accordion the way Toots Thielmans plays harmonica or Dino Saluzzi plays bandoneon—he transcends the instrument and just plays music"...
By Budd Kopma, All About Jazz.
Accordionist and composer, Victor Prieto is revolutionizing the way that the accordion is played by creating new sounds and techniques for this instrument. His music embraces different tendencies that come from jazz, Tango, Classical and Celtic roots enriched with new rhythms and colors. He is the creator of a new technique for the accordion called “chord approach on both hands,” which creates rich and elaborate harmonies.
Victor Prieto was born in Orense (Spain) in 1975. At the age of nine influenced by his mother Victor begun to play the accordion. He pursued his studies in Classical accordion at the Orense Conservatory (Spain), while taking harmony, arranging and improvisation classes at Estudio Escola de Musica (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). After receiving the opportunity and award by the highly respected Jazz school- Berklee College of Music- Victor decided to pursue the performance major in Accordion under the direction of Joanne Brackeen. Victor is the first and only of his kind, to specialize and apply studies in Accordion at Berklee College of Music. During his stay at Berklee Victor becomes friends with one of his mentors, Oscar Stagnaro who introduces him to some of the people he will be playing with, Paquito D’Rivera, Diego Urcola, Carlo DeRosa, Mark Walker, David Sammuels, Allison Miller, Lionel Louke. Victor graduates from Berklee and moves to New York City where he becomes the Jazz Accordion Professor at the Brooklyn Conservatory.
He teaches Master Classes in Spain, Italy, Portugal, and USA. He is a recipient of more than twenty coveted awards such as the first prize at the Citta De Catelfidardo Jazz Competition (Italy), the Creative Performer award from the Spanish Association of Artists and Performers, and the first prize at CMZK’s Concourse of Composition (Argentina).
He has performed at many prestigious venues and events such as Berklee Performance Center, Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New Jersey Performance Art Center, Three Rivers Musical Festival, Williamsburg Jazz Festival, Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.
Victor now lives and performs in New York City and he has recently introduced his first CD, "Persistencia," which was produced by Foxhaven jazz records.
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