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This musical project is the vehicle in which Im trying to express my ideas and feelings about music and, of course, about guitar music.My family has a Mariachi tradition, so I was listening to that music in my early years, I took up the guitar at seven. I can still recall myself playing a huge guitar in family gatherings (it looked huge to me) learning bolero tunes from my brother in law who played in a Trio, he taught me many tunes like Nochecita,Caricia y Herida, La Gloria Eres tu, (I was about ten years then) Later on, my father brought me a smaller guitar, so I really started to learn. By the way, I have to say that my mother had a beautiful voice and a natural talent for harmonizing voices, she knew and sang a lot of Mexican songs that I learned from her.Then came Blues, Rock and Pop that started to invade Tijuana in the 60s y 70s. I begun to learn and play all the songs I heard on the radio (Zombies, Turtles, Animals, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Santana, Hendrix) My elder brothers played in rock bands so they helped me to learn things like the blues, string bending and pulling, hammer on, power chords and all kinds of chords and tricks.After that, they started to bring jazz records, I heard people like Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Kenny Burrell (I still have same of the records that they brought then) and all of a sudden I felt this is it. I MUST learn this! -obviously I did not understand that music at that time, but it touched me so deep, that I could not to get rid of this feeling of fooling myself, whenever I was studying and practicing this people's music.By the 80s, I heard Laurindo Almeida, Joao Gilberto, Sergio Mendez and of course Antonio Carlos Jobim, I heard lots of Chick Corea's Return to Forever, and the Samba Jazz Fusion beat, while studying the Berkely Correspondence Course. Also, artists like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, James Taylor, Creedence Clearwater, Eagles, Jim Croce, got me into the Folk and Country music, so before I knew it, I got myself in many different styles like Bossa, Blues, Latin & Hispanic, Salsa, Rock, Jazz, Country, Folk and a couple more.That made me realize that there is something in ethnic and folk music that is not about better than who, but instead, that there is something that you want to say with your music, and That something is what really matters after all.I understood then that music is an emotional language, and that you need to get into the root of each style in order to bring out the musical essence that you want to transmit whenever you play.So this is how I came up with this project trying to get to the roots and feelings of Hispanic music and infuse it the energy of jazz. I hope you find it interesting, I hope it works.Thanks again for visiting Jazz Hispano. Xavier ..