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CabaniJazz

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About Me

Official site in Spanish:
cabanijazz.com

Thanks a lot for hangin' out with me at my Myspace area!

Some of my friends have often described me as a "Renaissance man" because of my multiple implications in culture and art creation. First of all, I'm well known as a Jazz photographer, as I've been shooting Jazz events in the Madrid area and also at Vitoria Jazz Festival since 2001 and publishing my work often in the most prestigious Jazz printed media in Spain and also in the US such as Jazziz Magazine, The New York Times or All About Jazz, as well as in the most visited Jazz website in Spanish: Tomajazz.com .

Since 2005 I have my own touring Jazz photographic exhibition called "Jazz in Blue", together with a book which was published to accompany the first exhibition in Vila-real, Castellón, Spain. You can see all about "Jazz in Blue" in my website.

Some of the artists that have used my artwork to achieve a different image include: Dave Fiuczynski and the Screaming Headless Torsos , Roni Ben-Hur , Aaron Goldberg , Chris Kase , Chema Sáiz, Abe Rábade , Joaquín Chacón , Nelson Cascais , Santiago de la Muela, Juan Camacho , Mikel Andueza , Kucich, Charlín & Barroso Trio, Baldo Martínez , Marc Meier, Carlos "Sir Charles" González, Roxana Río, and many many others.

But things don't stop there. I've also been involved in Jazz album productions with names like Chema Sáiz , Santiago de la Muela and organ legend Dan Wall. I've also represented several jazzmen, and I've been also a professional website designer for a long time.

Well, this is but a little of who I am, Now it's your time to show yourselves!

P.S.: Didn't I mention that since 1995 I have a radio show called Parallel Universes in downtown Madrid?

My Interests

Arts & Music, creation, there's room for almost everything.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with similar interests or anyone who has seen my work and wants to give an opinion, I appreciate each and every of them, make yourselves home.

Music:

Oops! Difficult to write less than 2,000,000 names in here!... Mainly JAZZ, Blues, Prog Rock & Metal, Ethnic Music worldwide, Orchestral Soundtracks. In concrete names (just a few) Dream Theater, Planet X, Liquid Tension Experiment, Toto, Alter Bridge, Tool, Nickelback, Stone Temple Pilots, Rammstein, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Chema Sáiz, Fractal, Scott DuBois, David Binney, Adam Rogers, Kurt Elling, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Oscar Peterson, Abe Rábade, Joe Pass, Juan Camacho, Allan Holdsworth, Wayne Krantz, Chris Potter, Steve Coleman & Five Elements, Sylvain Luc, Dave Fiuczynski and Screaming Headless Torsos, California Guitar Trio, Trey Gunn, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Michael Manring, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Radio Futura, Ilegales, Sobrinus, La Vacazul, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, Robben Ford, Mark Ford, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Lucky Peterson, Koko Taylor, John Renbourn, John Doan, Michael Hedges, Nightnoise, Lúnasa, Anuna, Dervish, Capercaillie, Renaissance Lute Music (Holborne & Robinson and many others, as well as Spanish music of that time), Thomas Newman's Soundtracks, James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin... you name it.

Movies:

Cyrano de Bergerac, Vidocq, La cite des enfants perdus, Delicatessen, Amelie, The Shawshank redemption, Le pacte des loups, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The horse whisperer, The breakfast club, Clint Eastwood's, each and every of Bogart's films: The big sleep, Key Largo, Casablanca... you name it.

Television:

Not much, some fine series like House M.D. (simply the best!), C.S.I.'s, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Law & Order, Discovery Channel and National Geographic archaeological and wildlife documentaries, some History Channel documentaries...

Books:

Mainly historical novels related to the middle age and also about the Egyptian culture (Naguib Mahfuz, Christian Jacq), some Stephen Lawhead, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Tolkien LOTR Trilogy and also some Fantasy & Mistery literature. Some photography books: Herman Leonard, Bill Claxton, Chuck Stewart, Lee Tanner, Chema Madoz, Joel-Peter Witkin, Toni Catany. Jazz stuff: Stewart Nicholson's 'Is Jazz dead?', Joachim Berendt's 'Jazz, it's origin and development', 'Grove Dictionary of Jazz'.

Heroes:

My parents, no doubt about it.