trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...
player and composer,Roger Leveque, "Going easy on the Latin grooves; Cuban-Canadian trumpeter Alexis Baro offers up more of a funk-jazz fusion". ''
Edmonton Journal
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History
The ''Journal'' was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as ...
'', November 28, 2009. most noted as a
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...
Juno Awards of 2019
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.
Biography
Baro was born in
Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.
,
Cuba
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. In school he became a member of the
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club is an ensemble of Cuban musicians established in 1996. The project was organized by World Circuit executive Nick Gold, produced by American guitarist Ry Cooder and directed by Juan de Marcos González. They named the g ...
, singer
Omara Portuondo
Omara Portuondo Peláez (born 29 October 1930) is a Cuban singer and dancer. A founding member of the popular vocal group Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo has collaborated with many important Cuban musicians during her long career, including Julio Gu ...
's band. After completing his musical education, he completed a teaching certification at the Amadeo Roldán Music Conservatory.Rob Vanstone, "Music is in Baro's genes". ''
Regina Leader-Post
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Founding
The newspaper was first published as ''The Leader'' in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, Li ...
'', November 19, 2009.
Baro performed lead trumpet for the National Radio and Television Orchestra of Cuba at the age of 19.
In 2001, Baro was discovered by Canadian jazz drummer
Kamloops Daily News
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The paper was founded in 1931 as the ''Kamloops Shopper'' by George Duncan Br ...
'', March 28, 2008.
In 2004 he released ''Havana Banana'', his debut album as a bandleader."CD Reviews". ''
Toronto Star
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'', November 18, 2004. In 2006 he appeared as a feature soloist on
Hilario Durán
Hilario Durán (born 1953, Havana) is a Cuban-Canadian jazz pianist.
Durán studied at ''Conservatorio "Amadeo Roldán"'' Amadeo Roldan Music Institute in Havana, studying tumbao with Evaristo Aparicio, composition and conducting from German P ...
’s
Grammy Award
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-nominated album ''From the Heart''.Ashante Infantry, "Cuban super session; For his new album, Hilario Duran was joined by two other jazz greats from Castro's island". ''
Toronto Star
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'', June 30, 2006.
He is a three-time nominee for Best Trumpeter at the Canadian National Jazz Awards, in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
He received a Juno nomination for Jazz Album of the Year, Solo in 2019 for his 2018 album ''Sandstorm''.
In addition to his work in jazz, he has also performed with the long-running
rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly ...
and
funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...
*''Havana Banana'' - 2004
*''From the Heart'' - 2006, with Hilario Durán
*''From the Other Side'' - 2009
*''Blue Skin'' - 2013
*''Guilty Pleasure'' - 2015
*''Sugar Rush'' - 2016
*''Sandstorm'' - 2018
*''Mi Raiz'' - 2022Matthew Wright "Alexis Baro: Mi Raiz" ''
Jazz Journal
''Jazz Journal'' is a British jazz magazine established in 1946 by Sinclair Traill (1904–1981). It was first published in London under the title ''Pick Up'', which Traill founded as a locus for serious jazz criticism in Britain.Roberta Freund Sc ...