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Carlos Lopez-Real
He has collaborated with Zoe Rahman, Gary Husband and the Nicolas Meier Group. Carlos studied Indian music and held the sax chair in John Mayer’s classic band Indo-Jazz Fusions. He also features with salsa king Roberto Pla and the Tito Puente orchestra.
Carlos is the founder of ‘e17 jazz’, a new East London-based collective spawned out of both F-IRE and LOOP associations, whose members include Brigitte Beraha, John Turville, Adam Bishop, Will Collier and Dave Manington. Mandorla’s official album launch gig will be held at e17 jazz’s regular venue, The Rose and Crown in Walthamstow.
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Carlos Lopez-Real's Mandorla: Mandorla
by Chris May
Among the otherwise quite disparate assembly of musicians which makes up London's F-IRE collective and label, a shared sense of playfulness runs deep. Leading lights such as saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Finn Peters, guitarist Jonny Phillips, trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Arthurs, cellist Ben Davis and drummer Seb Rochford--all seriously adventurous musicians--bring refreshing degrees of fun to even their most radical and exploratory work. Significantly in this regard, the celebrity endorsement" which opens F-IRE's website homepage in spring 2009 is written ...
read more‘Lopez-Real has a nice line in Lee Konitz smokiness but also its opposite, a raw and explosive multiphonics.’ John Fordham
Primary Instrument
Saxophone
Location
London
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
http://www.carloslopez-real.co.uk/teaching.html
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Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson