WDR Big Band feat. Gabriel Pérez: Milonga

Gabriel Pérez, soprano saxophone
WDR Big Band
WDR Studioproduction, December 2009

1. Alta Paz (Quique Sinesi)
2. El patio del tiempo (Marcio Doctor)
3. Sara (Sergio Aranda)
4. La muerte del angel (Astor Piazolla)
5. Sutuy (Gabriel Pérez)
6. Turquesa (Gabriel Pérez)
7. Milonga del angel (Astor Piazolla)
8. Pan Con Pan (Gabriel Pérez)
 

Gabriel Pérez, born in 1964 in Córdoba, is a musician who creates new elements of Argentinean music by combining them with more traditional styles of his homeland to develop a unique sound.

Raised in Argentine, Gabriel received a broad musical education with rural roots. He was under contract with the Córdoba Symphonic Wind Orchestra, was a member of the saxophone quartet Scaramouche, recorded with nationally well-known musicians and planned early on to focus on composition. Subsequently, he moved to Germany and took private classes with Dietmar Mensinger and studied jazz saxophone under Frank Gratkowski, as well as composition / arrangement under Frank Reinshagen at the prestigious Cologne University of Music.

In 2008 saxophonist, composer and arranger Gabriel Pérez received the prestigious WDR Jazz Award  for composition. One year later he was comissioned by the WDR Big Band to arrange and write some music for a studio recording entitled "Milonga".  Milonga is the name for both the archetypical  Tango music and a  kind of subtype of Tango music. Once again Pérez shows his ability to combine the expressive power of Jazz, the elegance of the dance music of his South American home and the expressive language of European classical music of the late 19th century.
He has recorded a series of albums entitled "Música Argentina Vol. 1-3".