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Arturo Puertas

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in november 30, 1961.His meeting with the music happened when he was 15 years old after had been listening The Beatles. Therefore he took bass guitar lessons and begun to play in rock bands. At the earliest eighteens he discovered Jazz: Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and their bass players: Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, etc. He estudied classic bass at the “Manuel de Falla”and “Carlos López Bouchardo” schools.

He showed up in the Buenos Aires Jazz stage playing with musicians like: Diego Urcola, Oscar Feldman, Andrés Boiarsky, Juan Cruz de Urquiza, Jorge Navarro, Gustavo Bergalli, Osvaldo Fattoruso, Carlos Franzetti, and many others. He played with the following foreign musicians: Clark Terry, Dave Liebman, Dave Samuels, Conrad Herwig, Walt Weiskopf, Gail Wynters, Ted Piltzecker, Jeff Siegel, Michael Tracy, Jacob Karlzon, Peter Asplund, Fredrik Lundin, Krister Jonsson In 2004 he shared the Argerich Festival in The Colón Theatre, playing under the Brazilian director Roberto Tibiriçá's baton the Concert for violonchello and orchestra by Friedrich Gulda, with Gautier Capuçón like solist. In 2009 he released his first record as a leader “Siete Puertas” with his quartet. In 2013 he released his second latin jazz style record “Afropuertas” In 2016 releases his third CD “Viva Jujuy” recorded in New York with Aaron Goldberg, Miguel Zenón, John Ellis and Adam Cruz.

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