DICK THEM – bass

VÍCTOR DE DIEGO – sax JAUME VILASECA – piano RAMÓN DÍAZ – drumms

For Jaume Vilaseca Quartet, jazz is not a style, not a dogma. It's something totally alive, it is communication in its purest form, an open and committed to the music and improvisation. In his earlier work ('Fotografíes' 1999; 'Aquí i allà' 2002 y 'World songs' 2004) Vilaseca’s compositions invite some of those musics of the world which have always been and will remain the property of the people, a genuine and comprehensive jam session. Now J.V.Q. is facing an unusual repertoire. Music of the progressive rock band Genesis, "Tresspass" until 1970 "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" 1974 was an inexhaustible source of ideas, creativity, risk. Nude some baroquism own paraphernalia and the time that came up, without voice and without letters, reappears in spirit with all his magic, its lyricism and its contemporaneity. Genesis reborn again with a new voice, with a new language, rhythms and colors settled on flamenco roots, African, Latin and Brazilian.

Website: www.myspace.com/jaumevilaseca

JAUME VILASECA piano

Jaume Vilaseca graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona. He studied piano and

classical harmony at the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona and completed his training with several

courses and seminars at the Taller de Músics, also in Barcelona.

From a very early age he played piano and keyboards for Brazilians such as Euclydes Mattos, Acelino de

Paula, Danilo Pinheiro and Carlinhos Pitera and in groups such as Free Ghetto Brasil, Savarah and Anna Luna

Brasil Band. For six years he has been working as the pianist for the Argentine songwriter Sergio Makaroff,

whom he accompanies on his tours all over Spain. He has collaborated with many jazz artists and groups of

Barcelona, such as Randy Greer, Loti Lewis, Jay Wallis, Aiguaviva Quartet, Foly Lamas and Groove Fantasy.

RECORDINGS

"Pau de sebo 1" (Varios artistas brasileños) Regent music 1996

"Pau de sebo 2" (Varios artistas brasileños) Regent music 1998

"Fotografíes" (Jaume Vilaseca trio) Dindi records 1999

"Quartet 66 y Jaume Vilaseca trio" Marcatto edicions 2000

"Makaroff" (Sergio Makaroff) 18 chulos records 2002

"Aquí i allà" (Jaume Vilaseca quartet) Discmedi 2002

"Te encontré" (Ángela Suárez) Satchmo jazz records 2004

"Bossanovando" (Damills) Subterfuge records 2004

"World songs" (Jaume Vilaseca Quartet) Discmedi 2004

"Spring is here" (Anna Luna Quartet) New mood jazz 2005

"Brazilian jazz" (Saravah) Gemecs 2005

"El ritme de les paraules" (Araceli Aiguaviva) Satchmo jazz records 2005

"He perdido los zapatos" (Nena Daconte) Daconte music 2005

"Deconstructing electronic" (Damills) Subterfuge 2006

"Walk the high wire for me" (Roger Whipp) Roger Whipp 2006

"Sketches" (Anna Luna) New mood jazz 2007

THEATRE

"El procés de don Joan" (Dir: Pere Sagristà) Teatre Adrià Gual BCN 1995

"Frank and Stein " Teatre Regina BCN 1996

"Vides privades" (Dir: Paco Mir) Teatre Borràs BCN 2000

"Diner negre" (Dir: Pep Pla) Teatre Borràs BCN 2001

"El perro el hortelano" (Dir: Magüi Mira) Teatre Condal BCN 2002

"Misterios assassinat a Manhattan" (Dir: Elisenda Roca) Teatre Tivoli 2006

CINEMA

"Lo mejor que le puede pasar a un cruasán" (Dir: Paco Mir)

VÍCTOR DE DIEGO sax and flutes

Víctor de Diego was born in Bilbao in 1964. He studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música of Bilbao

and at the Conservatorio del Liceo of Barcelona, where he obtained the Higher Saxophone Qualification. He

has attended International Seminars in Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona with musicians such as Bob Moses,

Roy Haynes, Mulgrew Miller, Max Roach, John Abercrombie and George Garzone.

He started his career in 1984 playing with groups such as Pork Pie Hat, Infussion and Quartet Creciente,

with which he obtained many awards at the Festivals of San Sebastián, Getxo, Majorca and Ibiza.

He worked with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Enrique García Asensio, in 1986 and 1987,

with the Chamber Orchestra of the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona, conducted by Josep Pons, in 1992, with the

Ballet Contemporani de Barcelona in 1994 and with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by

Mstislav Rostropovich, in 2001.

He also works as a session musician and for TVE, TV2, ETB, TV3 and Canal 33 in several musical programmes

such as Jazz entre amigos and Jazz & Co.

In 1988 he moved to Barcelona, where he has pursued his career as a leader of his own groups and as a

member of a large number of groups of all types, with which he has played at prestigious international jazz

festivals.

He has worked with prestigious musicians such as Jordi Bonell, Jordi Rossy, Lluís Vidal, Javier Colina, Carles

Benavent, Idrish Muhammad, Jeff Ballard and Iñaki Salvador.

DICK THEM bass

Dick Them started to study Jazz and Harmony at the Aula de Música Moderna and completed his studies at

the Taller de Músics, both in Barcelona. He has participated in seminars with Ed Thigpen, Kenny Barron and

James Williams and has received classes from Lynn Seaton and Mario Rossy. He is currently studying with

Pierre Boussaguet in Albi, France. He has also studied classical bass at the Virtélia School.

He has played with Sheila Jordan, José Luis Gámez, the Big Band of the Taller de Músics, the Enildo Rasúa

Quintet, the Francesc Capella Trio, Jo Krause, Jeff Jerolamon, the Salseta del Poble Sec and Miquel

Comamala, among others. He is the leader of the classical jazz group Dick’s Dukes. As a classical musician

he is a member of the Municipal Orchestra of La Garriga, conducted by Alfons Reverté.

He has recorded with artists such as Lluís Llach, Sílvia Comes i Lídia Pujol and La Salseta, and regularly

writes an educational column for the magazine Guitar Player. He was a combo teacher at the First

International Jazz Seminar of Zarautz and currently teaches acoustic and electric bass at the Taller de

Músics of Barcelona.

RAMÓN DÍAZ drumms

Ramón Díaz studied at the Centre for Musical Studies of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, his home town, and at the

Taller de Músics of Barcelona.

His work in jazz groups in Barcelona includes such important names as Dave Schnitter, Jean Toussaint, Gerg

Lyons, Jim Left, Joe Fonda, Tom Warner, Wayne Bachelot, Javier Colina, Ramón Cardo, Lluís Vidal, Chano

Domínguez, Perico Sambeat, Ze Eduardo and Tom Guillion.

He has played at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th European Jazz Shows, Mercè 1990 and 1991, and the Jazz

Festivals of La Laguna, Debrecen, Terrassa, Lugo, Logroño, Getxo, Barcelona, San Sebastián and Altaveu

Frontera. He has toured Spain, Portugal and Hungary.

He has received several awards: Best Instrumentalist in the Canary Islands, Best Group in the 1st Regional

Show 1987, Best Group at Getxo 1990 and Best Soloist at Getxo 1991.

REVIEWS

DISTRITO JAZZ

Genesis of 70 to 74, its main epoch moved to the Jazz? The audacity does not have limits, there were

thinking many fans of the music of Genesis on having seen the front of this CD, but I do not believe that

they suffer on having heard what Jaume Vilaseca and his quartet people they have done with Gabriel's

songs, Collins, Banks Hackett, Rutherford and Phillips. Jaume Vilaseca Quartet obtains a very agreeable disc.

TOMA JAZZ

Para mí, ha sido toda una sorpresa. Muchos de los temas que repasa son, en mi opinión, obras maestras

definitivas, y de las que nunca me imaginé que pudieran sonar tan bien en clave de jazz, y en algún caso con

ritmos latinos o incluso cercanos al flamenco. El disco se abre con "White mountain", de "Trespass", un

tema difícil, y cuando ví los títulos que interpretaban, me sorprendió mucho ver éste. Fenomenal, una

delicia escuchar esta versión, en la que desparece la oscuridad del tema original, que aquí se transforma en

luminoso.

DONATO ZOPPO

Operazione molto interessante questa dello Juame Vilaseca Quartet: dietro la rielaborazione dei classici dei

migliori Genesis non c'è solo la bravura di arrangiatori ed esecutori, ma soprattutto l'elasticità di certa

musica, il suo diventare pian piano un "classico" anche grazie a dischi come questo. A mio avviso non si può

ritenere la musica dei Genesis adattabile a qualsiasi ambito musicale (pensate a "The Lamb" in versione

liscio o "Trespass" metallizzato...), tuttavia ci sono alcuni campi, come l'acustico e l'unplugged, o lo stesso

jazz, in cui è possibile trasportare la materia genesisiana con sicuro successo.