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Discography
Members featured in the album
HORACIO "Chivo" BORRARO - Tenor sax
FERNANDO GELBARD - Piano
JORGE LÓPEZ RUIZ – Double bass
EDUARDO CASALLA - Drums
Members featured in the album
HORACIO "Chivo" BORRARO - Tenor sax
ALFREDO REMUS - Double bass
EDUARDO CASALLA - Drums
FERNANDO GELBARD - Piano
Members featured in the album
HORACIO "Chivo" BORRARO - Tenor sax
FERNANDO GELBARD - Piano
JORGE LÓPEZ RUIZ - Double bass
CARLOS “Pocho” LAPOUBLE - Drums
Members featured in the album
HORACIO "Chivo" BORRARO - Tenor sax, organ, piano, electric piano, synth, xilóphone, percussion and flute
JORGE GONZÁLEZ - Double bass
NÉSTOR ASTARITA - Percussion
MIGUEL "Chino" ROSSI - Percussion and effects
FERNANDO GELBARD - Piano, electric piano and synth
Biography
“Chivo” Borraro, clarinetist first and tenor saxophonist later, was born in 1925 in Buenos Aires, into a family of non-professional musicians who had graduated from the conservatory. He began playing in neighborhood clubs whose dances were mainly attended by typical and jazz orchestras. The first relevant group he joined, the Rythm Makers, was one of the first Buenos Aires experiences in search of pure, non-danceable jazz, which cultivated the Chicago style. Created by students from the Faculty of Architecture, they did not release commercial records, although their name endured for pursuing the supremacy of improvisational practice. The Rythm Makers were to the jazz of the 40s and 50s what the alternative bands were to the rock of the 90s, with the difference that none of them managed or wanted to cross the line that limits the minority from the massive. He participated in the Hot Club, which he left in open dissent in 1954, to join the first great modern band directed by Lalo Schiffrin.
In a personal letter reproduced in his autobiography he would write years later: “[…] tell the members of the Hot Club Board of Directors that I have a place reserved for them in the ark that I plan to build, since it is my wish that no animal species be left unrepresented within it.”
At the Bop Club he won the annual poll for best clarinetist year after year, until thanks to a loan from drummer Pichi Mazzei he was able to acquire his tenor saxophone.
Borraro was one of the few musicians who knew how to cover the entire spectrum of jazz styles throughout his career, from hot to free and fusion from the seventies. He participated in countless projects, thanks to his great reputation as a musician with a personal sound. Among his own projects he was able to edit a relevant discography lost for many years, later reissued by the English label Whatmusic. The notable saxophonist, promoter of modern jazz in Argentina, died in Buenos Aires on March 30, 2012, at the age of 90.
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