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Dave Juarez

composer / guitarrist

About Me


I started playing guitar at the age of nine playing pop rock (the typical thing that everybody begin..). At the age of 14 one friend intoduced me in latin jazz music (michel camilo, eliane elias, paquito de rivera..) and i spend one year listening this kind of music and playing more latin rock. after this year I discovered Charlie Parker and I fell in love with bebop. since then I started to study jazz at the "taller de musics" in barcelona spending 2 years there with Oscar Peñas as a guitar teacher. I began to work and had to leave the lessons with Oscar and I focused more in music theory studies, but after a couple of months I met Josep Albert Cubero and I've left the "taller de musics" to study with him for 2 years. Nowadays im in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam learning from people like Martijn van Iterson, Martien Oster, Henk Sprenger or Ferial Kalamari and improving in music as much as possible. workshops with Mike Stern, Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Jim Black, Kevin Hays, Larry Goldings. The band Dave Juarez Group is working specially in modern jazz experimenting with sounds

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Member Since: 1/5/2007
Band Members: the recordings are made by the Dave Juarez Group, and the musicians are Gianni Gagliardi on tenor saxophone, Sri Hanuraga on piano, Tim Roth on double bass and Timothee campanella on drums. the tunes "Pineapple man", "Joint steps"and "Round Redlight" are own compositions and "Along came Betty" is an original from Benny Golson. it was recorded in Dudok's studio on 15th of january 2008.the song "Podvecerna" was recorded live in Ellingtonzaal in the CvA 19th of december of 2007 with Nanca Muck(voice),Wouter Penris (voice & harmonica), and Maartje Meijer (voice & piano), Dave Juarez (guitar),Martin Hiltawski (bass) and Ephraim Schultz-Wackerbarth (drums).
Influences: the biggest inspiration i found was my mother, and my sister.. and of course all the musicians that i played with through all these years.. specially mencioning Gianni Gagliardi and Enric Peinado.. after that all this guys and some more.. kurt rosenwinkel, adam rogers,ben monder, bobby broom, bill evans, john scofield, peter bernstein, david mengual, giulia valle, dani dominguez, jon robles, kevin hays, joan abril, django reinhart, charlie christian, tal farlow, seamus blake, mark turner, miles davis, john coltrane, joshua redman, jim mullen, J.A.Cubero, Sean Levitt, Pat Metheny, George Benson, chris cheek, sonny rollins, dexter gordon, michael brecker, mike stern, charlie parker, dizzy gillespie, bud powell,jim hall, benny golson, freddie hubbard, art blakey & the jazz messengers, roy hargrove, bob berg, john coltrane, miles davis, lee morgan, chet baker, scott henderson, wes montgomery, oscar peterson, jonathan kreisberg, george benson, john abercrombie, brad meldhau, bireli lagrene, sylvain luc, django reinhart, herbie hancock, joshua redman, joe pass,oscar peñas, joao gilberto and "calle 54" a film that changed my life..
Sounds Like: dave solo in the proef

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