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Luis Vivanco

Don't have the website. I was born in Santiago de Chile. None of my family is a musician. I started hearing music in serious at four years old. Artists: Chubby Checker, Patachou, Paul Robeson, Paul Anka, etc. At 9 yrs old, my parents, surprised to see I had an enthusiasm for music (Bach, Tchaikovski, Dvorak and a few others) enrolled me in piano lessons in a vain intent to thwart my musical interests. After four yrs, the project showed its failure, for though I loathed piano (and piano lessons) I still liked music.

At 12 started to hear first Jazz records. Glenn Miller, Satchmo & his all stars, etc. then, for some time, got a thing about tropical & latinamerican music (tango, cumbia, rumba, etc.).

At 15 regained my interest in jazz: heard a lot of records by Billie Holiday, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, a lot of Ella (especially the Cole Porter Song Book. In love with that since), Jimmy Giuffre, Mal Waldron, Pepper Adams, Les Brown, and the strange Eric Dolphy. At 16, in Jan, 1974, bought my first two record album: Benny Goodman (Victor). I decided I wanted to play clarinet. In about april that year, one of the friends of my family in the small Chilean colony at my hometown, being himself a Jazzist (traditional & dixieland) lent me his clarinet for "four weeks" that expanded for more than six months. After practicing every day one hour or more, I could play surprinsingly well, with not such a bad sound,... and follow a lot of records, especially the old ones (Freddie Keppard, Jimmy Noone, Frank Teschemacher, King Oliver, the lousy Mezz Mezzrow, etc.). I tried to imitate some clarinetists I liked very much. Mostly, to this day: Edmond Hall. Also, but less: Tony Scott & Buddy de Franco. Hated: Pee Wee Russell & Lester Young in clarinet.

From 1974 to 1979: a time of learning & studying. Hated both &$/%/&% things, but found after some time that I had learned a lot. Had two clarinet professors. The first went mad. The other was an exclarinetist in the Band of General

Awards

The mirror gives back the face of a contented man with teeth problems.

Gear

Selmer (Boehm, complete), Yamaha, Schreiber (Boehm, simple), Conn, Bundy.


Tags

"Jazz trio begins area play". Quote: "They were joined in the second half of their performance by guest saxaphonist [sic] Luis Vivanco, a history/Geography student from Zulia University (LUZ)". Saturday, March 6, 1982.

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