Roberto Dañobeitia
Roberto Dañobeitia
Genres: swing, jazz, bebop, bop, contemporary jazz
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About Roberto Dañobeitia
After the emergence of modern guitarists such as Ángel Parra and Pedro Rodríguez, Chilean jazz in the 1990s would see the appearance of a new wave of soloists. Among them, the triad of guitarists born in 1974 stands out: Mauricio Rodríguez, Jorge Díaz and Roberto Dañobeitía. The latter would later become one of the most interesting composers of a new and modern jazz repertoire, modeled in an important journey through Europe and consolidated in his work for larger ensembles, such as Ensamble Quintessence, or the nonet that he later assembled to give sound to his most advanced catalog of compositions. Dañobeitía began on the stage of the L'Atelier club, where he played for the first time at the age of 17. Soon, the guitarist would be one of the men in violinist Roberto Lecaros's quintet in 1994, a band with which he showed his first attempts at bebop. He would later form a quartet with pianist Carmen Paz "Kuki" González and join the quintet of alto saxophonist Alfredo Espinoza. At the end of the '90s, Dañobeitía made his first weapons in jazz orchestras, playing under the direction of Víctor Durán and then, once settled in Barcelona, as a stable guitarist for Swing Europe, an international big band of European soloists to which Dañobeitía entered with a community passport. From that moment he began a long work in Barcelona in composing and arranging music for a modern jazz orchestra, in a project that he would move to Chile, alternating this work with the development of his first quintets in 2004 together with the powerful bop tandem formed by Sebastián Jordán and Agustín Moya. These two sidemen were soon included by Dañobeitía in the ranks of the contemporary jazz project that he formed in 2005 together with guitarist Federico Dannemann, as the integration of both quintets and later known as Ensamble Quintessence. The chamber band was the platform from which Dañobeitía deployed his modern arranging work and which was also performed live during 2009 at the Providencia Jazz Festival and at the Municipal Theater of Santiago. In 2012, the guitarist returned to work with his own groups and the following year he released two albums: Interstelar Trío, with an ensemble without a drummer together with Sebastián Jordán (trumpet) and Eduardo Peña (double bass), and La ironía del tiempo, which Dañobeitía presented as a suite of compositions for a nonet, where he used the winds of Quintessence (Rubio, Moya, Sánchez, Jordán and Saavedra), as well as a rhythm section with musicians then based in New York: Pablo Vergara (piano), Pablo Menares (double bass) and Félix Lecaros (drums).
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