Ángel Parra Trío
Ángel Parra Trío is a Chilean jazz band lead by guitarist and composer Ángel Parra Jr. and created in 1989. History Ángel Parra Trío consolidated itself as the first substantive project in the renovation of the Chilean jazz scene once the Chile under Pinochet, military regime collapsed and the mandatory silence ended. Given the permanent musical reinvention that made it possible for a long time, the group also catapulted Parra beyond the territories of rock, through his militancy in the group Los Tres, and put his name among the most popular Chilean guitarists. The prehistory of the famous jazz trio dates back to the late '80s, when the jazz-rock group ''Cometa'' was experiencing its last moments before becoming La Marraqueta. Parra, who had replaced guitarist Edgardo Riquelme in the group, summoned two of its original members in 1989 to work in a small jazz workshop. Bassist Pablo Lecaros and drummer Pedro Greene joined the first sketch of Parra's trio, which at that ...
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Santiago, Chile
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital (political), capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated Regions of Chile, region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's Chilean Central Valley, central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balm ...
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