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Oscar Feldman

Oscar Feldman created quite an uproar by the end of the nineties with his impressive recording debut as a leader with El Angel.

Known for his splendid tonalities and melodically outstanding charts, the Argentinian native demonstrates his superb skills on alto, tenor and soprano saxes, while employing a wide range of Panamerican references, from straight ahead to tango to candombe to samba to mambo.

Feldman has extensive performance and recording experience, that ranges from straight ahead jazz, Brazilian, pop to fusion.

Mr.Feldman won the Outstanding Performance Award as the Best Soloist in fusion in Buenos Aires, 1986 and in 1992 the Achievement Scholarship Award from Berklee College of Music, where he graduated cum laude in 1995 with a Major in Professional Music.

Oscar has recorded and toured internationally as a lead alto with Paquito D'Rivera’s United Nations Orchestra, once led by the legendary Dizzy Gillespie.

In 1999 Oscar recorded the album “Tropicana Nights“, with a Big Band conducted by Paquito D’Rivera which received the Latin Grammy Award 2000 for “Best Latin Jazz Album“.

In 2000 he recorded the album he Grande Passion with guitar legend Al Di Meola and recently toured Europe and South Africa with Grammy winner and top producer/arranger Eumir Deodato.

Oscar has recorded and toured internationally with notable artists such as guitar legend Al Di Meola, Grammy winner and top producer/arranger Eumir Deodato, Jeff Tain Watts, Avantango, Paquito D'Rivera's United Nations Orchestra, Alex Acuna at prestigious venues such as the Opera Vienna House, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall in New York, Park La Villette in Paris, the Blue Note as well as many International Jazz Festivals in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

Oscar toured in Spain with Bebo Valdes and His All Star Latin Jazz Band and most recently he performed in Greece.with his own band featuring Horacio “Negro” Hernandez. He recorded for the soundtrack of Ang Lee's new movie "Lust, Caution". Oscar toured Europe with Fusion Revolution together with Alex Acuna , Tom Kennedy and Otmaro Ruiz. In 2009 Feldman released his second solo album Oscar e familia with drummer Antonio Sanchez, Manuel Valera, Mark Turner,John Benitez. The title cut was written by the great Hermeto Pascoal

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Oscar Feldman: Gol

Read "Gol" reviewed by James Nadal


Don't let the paucity of recordings from saxophonist Oscar Feldman fool you. It appears he has been woodshedding, assembling a new band of compatible musicians, and is now ready to step back into the spotlight. After his hiatus, quietly working on other projects, Feldman presents Gol, an eclectic blend of music covering the sounds of South America, Beck and The Beatles, all re-invented and revolving around his signature sound on alto and soprano saxophones. Feldman hand-picked his band ...

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Oscar Feldman: Oscar e Familia

Read "Oscar e Familia" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Oscar Feldman is ready, with Oscar e Familia, to put his own stamp on the alto saxophone. Not since the fire of Jackie McLean, the cool breeze of Lee Konitz, Eric Dolphy's rhythmic advances, Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic theories, and Steve Coleman's mBase concepts, has someone attempted to create a new language for that instrument. True, Charlie Parker presided over the advent of the most enduring revolution in music: bebop. Now, however, Feldman has, as an alto saxophonist, made a dramatic ...

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It is Feldman’s playing that clings to the ear throughout the set: sure, sleek, beautifully phrased. JAZZ TIMES, Bill Bennett

Oscar has a strong music personality Lalo Schifrin

"...Feldman has recorded a wonderful CD that is both aesthetically pleasing and musically challenging. I think you will enjoy this beautiful recording that is both extremely listenable as well as musically sophisticated." --DAVID LIEBMAN

"Oscar Feldman, my dear Amigo del Barrio, plays with that passion, sense of humor and spirit of camaraderie that I love in a musician. I hope you will enjoy listening to his first CD as much as I did playing on it." --PAQUITO D’RIVERA

Primary Instrument

Saxophone, alto

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Gol

Zoho Music
2017

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Oscar e Familia

Sunnyside Records
2009

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