Highlights from the Whitley Bay Jazz Festival 2010.
From Chile La Retaguardia Jazz Band .
This is the first time a jazz band from Chile has appeared in the UK, and it's great that La Retaguardia should form the advance-guard in this respect, since their name translates as "the rear-guard": in their choice of the classic jazz of Morton, Ellington, Henderson, Oliver and Armstrong, they represent the very opposite of the "avant-garde" so beloved of Arts Councils the world over. Their stubborn resistance to the forces of modernism began way back in 1958, so this is a rearguard action on the epic scale of Dunkirk, or Napoleon's retreat from Moscow -- and the intensity with which they play is very indicative of Their deeply-held feelings on the subject. The eight-piece band is led by pianist and founder-member Antonio Campusano, based in Santiago They Are, Where They Appear Regularly Both live and on TV, and Have Performed at festivals in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans and the South of France. Thanks
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Members: Cristian Alvarez, tuba. Antonio Campbell, piano; Alfredo Espinoza, Saxo, Jorge Leon, banjo; Antonio Gaete, drums; Boris Ortiz, clarinet; Enrique Planas, trumpet Patricio Santibañez, trombone and founding member of the band.
The Home Front: From way back
After the Santiago Jazz Band came down the curtain the workshop that the tuba player Domingo Santa Cruz took the lead with young fans so that it became a group. It was 1958, and Miller headed the clarinetist and pianist Roberto Antonio Campusano, director of the Rear Jazz Band. More experienced and if band where playing, Santa Cruz then became the engine of the group emerging and consolidated as the staunchest defender of the jazz school in New Orleans.
The band was called this way because the music was the "rear chronological", ie the years 1920 and 1930. No further. Http://jazzxmusica.blogspot.com/
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