ARTURO MORA GROUP
contemporary jazz
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Intimate and pleasant, yet intense and profound,
Arturo Mora Group features the solemnity of the new Scandinavian jazz,
the looseness of latin jazz and the brightness of jazz fusion. A wide repertoire of original compositions allows the band members to express
themselves freely following paths opened by geniuses like Pat Metheny, Esbjörn Svensson, Michael Brecker, John Scofield, Dave Holland, Chuck
Loeb, Michael Nyman or Claude Debussy.
The band came together in 2013 as the
Arturo Mora Trio. After playing live on several occasions and releasing their
first recording, the EP
Sign of the Future (2014), the band expanded its line up with trumpet and flugelhorn player
David Herrington.
It's fresh, it's sincere, it's current, and it's jazz.
Dates
Saturday 12th December 2015, 22:00 h. (GMT+1)
Arturo Mora Group (Arturo Mora Trio & David Herrington)
Taberna Atípica La Plazita
C/Angel 2
Valdemorillo (Madrid)
Friday 4th March 2016, 22:30 h. (GMT+1)
Arturo Mora Group (Arturo Mora Trio & David Herrington)
Café de la Higuera
C/José María Ruiz Heras 16
Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid)
Videos
The Call of the Gods. Bogui Jazz (Madrid), 16-Jul-2015.
Desperation. Bogui Jazz (Madrid), 16-Jul-2015.
Swedish Skies. De modestia na (Madrid), 13-Mar-2015.
The Call of the Gods. De modestia na (Madrid), 13-Mar-2015.
medley. Shamrock Irish Tavern (Galapagar, Madrid), 3-Oct-2014.
What Will We Become?. El Plaza (Madrid), 22-Feb-2014.
medley. El Plaza (Madrid), 22-Feb-2014.
The Craftsman's Dream. El Despertar (Madrid), 4-Apr-2014.
Caliban's Release. El Plaza (Madrid), 22-Feb-2014.
Procrastination - alternate take. Piccolo Studios
(Torrelodones, Madrid), 15-jul-2014.
promo medley. Madrid, 2013.
recording the EP Sign of the Future. Piccolo Studios
(Torrelodones, Madrid), 15-Jul-2014.
Hugo Fernández - electric guitar
He started performing live in Mexico, his country of origin, as well as in international tours with Thalia, Ana Bárbara, Magneto,
Pandora, Edith Márquez and Pedro Fernández, among others. After his
cum laude degree at the Berklee School of Music
(Boston, Massachussetts, 1997), he obtained an MA in Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans (Louisiana, 2005). Now a resident of
Madrid (Spain), he has worked with Cordelia (CD
Solitude), Cristina Mora, Celia Mur, Amerikanda (CD
Amerikanda), Los Tres Mexicanos, the Big Band of Arganda del Rey, the Composers' Big Band de Compositores (conducted by Miguel
Blanco), Valery Haumont and the Way Up Trio, among others. Leader of the Hugo Fernández Quartet, with which he has played live
on many occasions in Spain and Mexico, he recorded in 2012 his debut CD
Orígenes, and released in 2015 his second
album
Cosmogram (Origin Records), featuring drummer Antonio Sánchez (member of the Pat Metheny Group and author
of the original soundtrack for the
Birdman movie).
Arturo Mora - electric bass and composition
Arturo studied at Taller de Músicos, Escuela de Música Creativa and Escuela Popular de Música y Danza in Madrid, and also
with acoustic bassist Carlos Ibáñez. Author of the soundtrack for the short film
Icaria in 2006, he has
organised and played in short tours led by international artists in Madrid (Margaret Stowe –Canada–, Riner Scivally –USA–, Isla Eckinger
–Switzerland–, Virginia Ramírez –Venezuela– and Juliet Annerino –USA–, with whom he performed live in New York in
2012. A member of Chema Saiz & Arturo Mora Duo, Angel Rubio Jazz Trio and Juan Camacho Quintet (CD
La estrategia del
tiempo, 2008; CD
Artesanía popular being mixed and mastered; appearance at the 29th Festival Jazz es
Primavera at Colegio Mayor San Juan Evangelista, 2011), he belongs to the Kyrios Jazz Quartet (house band for a weekly jam session from 2006
to 2015) and co-founded the jazz fusion band Tet-Quart (CD
Silencio, 2010). He also integrates the bands One By One,
Cafe Paris, and Daniel Lorrain & Arturo Mora Duo, and has collaborated, among others, with Inoidel González, Paul Brewer,
Janet Thuita, Brenda Hopkins, Sebastián Chames and Ángela Cervantes.
Enric Castelló - drums
He studied with Felip Santandreu, Yayo Morales, Marcos Parra and Iván Díaz, among others, attending drums seminars with
Marc Miralta, Horacio "El Negro" Hernández, Guillermo McGill, Jorge Lucero, Jeff Jerolamon, Trilok Gurtu, Nirankar Khalsa, Nasheet
Waits, Fernando Marconi and Roberto Vizcaíno, and Indian tabla seminars with Shev Ray Shankar. He also studied "Jazz and Orff-Schulwerk"
musical training with Doug Goodkin. Enric has performed with David Montes, Carlos Barroso, Nino Abou, Juliet Annerino, Ödu Web,
Alejandro Ramos, Félix Santos, Quijotes Eléctricos, Los fitoytú, Santiago Montoro, Miriam Fernández, 96
Mentirosos and the Orchestra Alcatraz, among others. He was one of the percussionists at the Terra Mítica theme park, and has
performed at the musical shows
Maribel y la extraña familia,
Mil y un sueños, and
Cabaret. He has recently published the didactic book for drummers
Rhythm Constructor, commited to the study of irregular meters
from basic to intermediate level.
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