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Tian y Angel Rubio Duo
Tian, a.k.a. Christian Korthals, was born in Nuremberg (Germany) in 1978 and learnt to play the piano as a child, and later the saxophone. After studying linguistics and computer science, he set off for a one-year journey around the world as a street musician. It was during this time also that he started to compose. After his return, Tian studied the saxophone at the ArtEZ University of the Arts at Arnhem (Netherlands) with Jörg Kaufmann, Hazel Leach, Henk Haverhoek and others. For years, Tian has been busy with flamenco, both on his instrument and in his compositions. He published two CDs with his projects “Tian et al” and “El Viento”, and played concerts throughout Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain with very positive press response. His compositions are published by Advance Music, Germany’s leading publishing house for jazz. Angel Rubio was born in 1955 in Asturias (Spain) and studied not only Psychology, but more important, also the flamenco guitar with Miguel de Cordoba. In the 1970s, he was known as one of the most interesting avant-garde jazz musicians in Spain. His “Big Band del Foro” was probably Spain’s first big band and earned him a composition price for Quite (1991) and an award as “best jazz album of the year” for Manifestacion (1993). With his group “Black Market”, Angel was creating a fusion of flamenco, world music and jazz and released the CDs “World Music” and “Distant Worlds”. With his group “Angel Rubio’s Jazz Hondo” he worked together with the flamenco singers Chalequito, Paco del Pozo and Curro Cueto. Furthermore, Angel has worked with Maria Joao, Monika Lingues, Janet Thuita, Paul Stocker, Perico Sambeat, Evaldo Robson, Laurent Filipe and Javier Paxariño. Listen atwww.myspace.com/tianyangelrubio Angel's homepage can be found here: |
When
two musicians of different generation and origin met in Madrid
in autumn 2009, it became quickly evident that they had a common
goal: The fusion of jazz and flamenco. Therefore, it is not surprising
that this newly founded duo sounds as if they had been playing
together for many years. Since their premiere at the Festival
de Jazz Voll Damm de La Escalera de Jacob in Madrid in April 2010,
they have been arranging their compositions for this duo-project.
Besides their original compositions, some uniquely arranged jazz
standards have made it into the repertoire, together with a handful
of traditional themes from around the globe (Greece, Balkan).
However, the old rhythmic and harmonic tradition of flamenco is
always present.