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Ramiro Flores

Ramiro Flores, saxophone player and composer, is one of the most active and leading jazz musicians in Argentina. In the end of 2007, after having won the 80mundos Fundation award, he recorded, produced and issued “Flores”, his first solo album.

Thorough the last few years he has colaborated with the most important jazz musicians in Argentina, including Mariano Otero, Pepi Taveira, Javier Malosetti, Patricio Carpossi, Delfina Oliver, Fer Isella, Nicolás Sorin, Juan Suárez, Esteban Sehinkman and others.

In the United States, where he resided for many years, he attended Berklee College of Music. There, he studied with world-renowned teachers such as Joe Lovano, George Garzone and Bill Pierce. In New York City he collaborated with bands such as Mr. Vivo Big Band and Los Changos, as well as playing with his own band. He was a composer for Music Sales Corp. and American Music Co.

In December 2007 he was elected Jazz Revelation of the Year by the Clarion Awards jury.

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Ramiro Flores: Saxman in Motion

Read "Ramiro Flores: Saxman in Motion" reviewed by Eric Benson


“Playing standards, to me, seems a little empty. I have a lot of fun playing them, but it seems to me a little infertile. I think there are a lot of other things to do that are much more interesting," said Ramiro Flores, the 30-year-old saxophonist who has quickly become one of the most lauded players on the Buenos Aires scene--winning the 80 Mundos competition in 2006, and the newspaper Clarín's “Revelation in Jazz" prize in 2007. It's not that ...

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Flores

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2007

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