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Billy Carrión Jr

Basaña, coming soon!

About Me

I'm a latin-jazz musician that can play any style you put in front of me and/or in my ears. I play baritone saxophone, as well as all the other saxophones including bass saxophone. I also play clarinet, contra-bass clarinet, eb contra-alto clarinet, Bb bass clarinet, c flute, and eb flute. I also play rock electric bass. I love music and music loves me. Music has prevented me from doing some stupid shit in life, so I owe music my life. I'm currently involved in three major Projects/groups: Basaña, which is my home-grown latin-jazz project with my pana Abel "Belito" Sanchez Jr, The Billy Carrión Sr. Orchestra, where I play baritone sax and I also am the musical director, and Ekra, power trio rock band where I play Electric bass. I have played with many other bands including Big Train, Jerry Medina and Feelin' Alright, the late Ray Barretto, (both salsa and latin jazz groups) Dave Gross' Group, Kokolo afro-beat orchestra,Ulcha Culcha, Nestor Torres, Willie Martinez and La Familia Sextet, Caribe Sol, and Charlie Sepulvera's latin jazz group, to name a few. I consider music a life, a constant challenge, a love, and the only true universal language."; href="target="_blank" /

My Interests

Life, music; the links between man, his destiny, true love, and the universe. and how much i can keep the booties on the floor.....

I'd like to meet:

Cool ass people, like my bro Newrock. Someone who's not afraid to say, "fuck that, you're stupid, so shut up," about anything. Basically any individual who's not afraid to speak their mind..!

Music:

My culture and heritage is salsa, bomba, plena, latin jazz, etc, so that's what I'm about. But I also listen to the inspirations of others such as folk, rock, raggae, electronica, eastern-indian, jazz, etc....

Movies:

All the Rocky movies, Blow, Requiem of a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Mr. and Ms. Smith, 'Round Midnight, Clerks

Television:

Robot Chicken, Boondocks, Transformers from the 80's, Voltron, Attack of The Show, Icons, Studio Jams, King of The Hill

Books:

The Hitchikers Guide To the Galaxy, 1984, No One Gets Out Of Here Alive, to name a few

Heroes:

Jan Garbarek, John Coltrane, Mongo Santamaria, The Fania all-stars, Gonzalo Rubalcava, My dad musicially, My Uncle Jerry Medina, Ray Barretto, Amd a million others..