A documentary by Diego Small
Synopsis
During the 70s, arrived in Paris a flamboyant jazz saxophonist proviniente of Chile. His name is Alfredo Espinoza. Immediately stands out among local musicians for his technique, swing and spectacular solos. It takes talent to play in major European circuits of traditional jazz and even to visit Africa. Make friends, fans and live a happy time music and nightlife.
Without a clear reason, Alfredo returns home to live with his mother. Soon he joined the Chilean jazz scene, but a long mental illness leaves him lost in a ridge of Valparaiso for more than ten years away from music and beautiful melodies that enchanted so many people from different countries.
Two friends living in Europe and tried to find help at this time dark and silent. Now, ten years later, they travel to Paris to meet with the myth musical round figure of Alfredo Espinoza in France.
From small busquilla to excellence, to see the world. The world to the glory and praise to the disappearance.
By Sergio Benavides T. / The Nation Sunday
death of myth. The myth of the resurrection. A couple of lines without major ambitions could summarize the story telegraphed Alfredo Espinoza, jazz musician with his saxophone drew a dedicated circuit to develop their art in a genre that is positioned for excellence and that nearly drove him to kiss madness, which went without drugs and without realizing it, with rules and love a devoted sister.
Like many, the story begins in the hills of Valparaiso curly precisely in "the mountains". One man
oldest of three siblings, who after the death of his father ocean, traveling in a caravan following the new love of his mother, a rider. Part of a childhood spent in Argentina where he had his first groups and more serious approaches to the eighth.
However, years before his father after losing his job as a sailor and used for import of what came to bring home hot marraquetas, gave the first instrument, a harmonica that will not stop playing chords imitating radio or ringing in your every day journey more adventurous.
was while living in San Isidro and his stepfather beat her with a whip to his horse across the Racecourse Palermo who entered early music ensembles.
A teacher told him that his instrument should be the heat, but I needed someone to play the clarinet (and will happen several times). He learned fast. Moved in a year what others take three in the weak instrument. And stretching his virtuosity that years later would lead to other scales.
enshrined in the Buenos Aires jazz band, traditional gender legendary group and almost a mirror of the music industry in the 20 and 30 gave birth to New Orleans. There he practiced a repertoire that included works by the likes of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Chocolate Dandies, Mac Kinney Cotton Pickers ... etc.
But America was not the circuit to aspiring young talents in South America. Paris was the capital of the art in the 70's. Then the greatest jazz and new roads had been drawn where the fusion with the modern and the creation of new styles were devoured by audiences hungry for news. Espinoza
flirts with the "modern", but risked punishment from conservatives. No one cares. Still smelling of new sounds and languages \u200b\u200bother passion later se juntará con la filosofía, los ensayos y la historia.
Llegará al saxo alto por la ausencia de uno de sus compañeros, y media hora antes de un concierto deberá cambiar la escala del clarinete al nuevo instrumento del que no se despegarán sus dedos.
Para el mito queda el resultado de una tocata inolvidable donde el debutante en el saxo Espinoza tuvo una presentación notable.
EN PAPEL DE DIARIO
Ya en Barcelona, decidirá ir a París. Esta vez el viaje lo hará solo. La fracción de La Porteña que realizó la gira regresa a Buenos Aires, pero Alfredo parece improvisar en la vida igual que en una jam session.
No le tiene gran cariño a lo material, including his travels sax wrapped in newspaper. He sleeps where he can, where someone offered. Eat what you get. Rule continues its spontaneity and into the bars where it asks for the best jazz bands. Eyes rest on her figure strange, weird. But it was enough to step on stage for all to take another route.
It becomes a benchmark, recording artist and travels to Africa to work. And not only in clubs but making money on perhaps more tourist assemblies, but better paid.
In five years he made his name, he played with the best and created bonds that later bring him out of a deep depression. The road back was strangely very similar to the leg. But something changed.
Some say he lost the hunger. And its artistic essence, that does not allow competition, finished with the balance when he came to Argentina in a relationship with an American writer who gave him his first and only child.
causes are unknown, but the woman decides to leave the United States and never seen. Alfredo leaves Buenos Aires and Santiago is recognized in 1980 for the first time as a dedicated musician.
It costs nothing to recognize his talent. The work done in the Porteña and legend that ran from mouth to mouth of his adventures in Europe had already been cast by the circuits Chilean and flirted with the cult figure.
The Rear Jazz Band will be the commitment shown to his solos and melodies.
And then silence. People do not understand. In the bars, Alfredo spoke of philosophy, Nietzsche, Artaud, and the Phoenicians. I had a blender in the head. They worshiped their presentations on stage looking at him strangely when it was lowered. Until its demise
comparing him to Charlie Parker, and like a bird on stage was monstrous and out of it, misunderstood. We talked about bipolar and schizophrenia, depression, a nebula in history.
At one point he thought he wanted steal your music, or some note. He continued playing without the note that had been stolen ...
His mother was widowed a third marriage and Evans returned to Valparaiso. Two friends (Duccio Castelli, Marcelo de Castro) rights in the film, try to find it. Espinoza does not recognize, but will not put the alto sax in his mouth in 10 years, until ...
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Diego filmmaker believes that the word is too big for you music lovers. However, it is a connoisseur of jazz and other genres and Evans became interested after a live interview that he heard several years in the Thelonious.
postulated three times until he got back audiovisual resources to develop the project.
"There was always a myth. Some people say that in Paris there are schools where they study their own, and so on. So I thought it necessary to travel and see how those stories were real, "says Little, adding:" It is an informative movie, I did not tell you everything but there is always the temptation of the data. But really wanted to get away from the story and tell it in the sensory. It is the myth of the musician. You can make analogies with others and may have similar stories, and this was a way to tell. Was to make a little record of the overall Chilean musician unknown but a myth created and became a fundamental part of music history of Chile. "
http://www.lanacion.cl/escape-al-silencio/noticias/2009-11-14/182323.html
http://www.canal-u.tv/themes/lettres_arts_langues_et_civilisations/langues_litteratures_et_civilisations_etrangeres/espagnol / civilisation/entretien_avec_alfredo_espinoza_rencontres_2011
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