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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Raynald Colom
- City: Barcelona
- Country: Spain
- Hometown: Vincennes, France
My Life
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Bio:
Raynald Colom is one of the most respected trumpeters in the Spanish and international Jazz Community. He has been heard alongside musicians such as David Sanchez, Greg Osby, Mulgrew Miller, Eric Reed, Jesse Davis, Eric McPherson, Omer Avital, Dafnis Prieto, Carles Benavent, Horacio Fumero, Manu Chao, Fermín Muguruza, Luis Salinas and Perico Sambeat, among many others.
Raynald was born in Vincennes (France) in 1978. He started learning music at the Créteil Music Conservatory when he was four years old: he studied violin until age eight, when his parents gave him a trumpet.
In 1988 his family moved to Barcelona (Spain), where he continued his musical studies, and got some private tuition by Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove and Kenny Barron. In 1999, after finishing studies at the Terrassa Municipal Conservatory and the Bellaterra Music School, he obtained a scholarship for the Berklee Music College in Boston, where he learned from teachers such as Bill Pierce and Darren Barrett, among others.
In 2000 he returned to Barcelona, where he started freelancing with musicians like Albert Bover, Randy Becker, Jesse Davis, Robin Eubanks, Horacio Fumero, Chris Higgins, Guillermo McGill, Michael Philip Mossman, Perico Sambeat, Antonio Serrano, or Louis Stewart. He also traveled trough the US and Latin America as part of Manu Chao’s “Clandestino” tour.
In 2001, he joined the European Youth Orchestra. With them, he played some of the top European festivals, like North Sea or Copenhagen, appeared at the famed Ronnie Scott’s Club in London, and performed in Ireland and Germany. He then joined Perico Sambeat’s Sextet, touring Spain, Uruguay and Argentina in 2002 and 2003. In 2005 he performed at the Mas i Mas Music Festival in Barcelona with Mulgrew Miller and José Reinoso.
The Spanish label Fresh Sound New Talent released Raynald’s first CD as a leader, “My 51 Minutes”, in 2005. The album was extremely well received by the press, and got great reviews and accolades.
In 2006, while still enjoying the success of his first record, the famous Flamenco singer Duquende invited Raynald as a guest for the recording of his album “Mi Forma De Vivir”. This was the starting point of Raynald’s love affair with Flamenco music: in only a couple of years he became the premier trumpet player amongst the Flamenco elite, working as a soloist with bands such as those of Chicuelo, Duquende, and harmonica player Antonio Serrano (“Armonitango” – Sony/BMG). Raynald is presently (2008) working with Rosario la Tremendita on her new release “Pinceladas”.
In 2007 Raynald was nominated as a young promise on the EuroDjango Awards. Early in the same year he had traveled to Timbuktu to participate in the Festival au Désert, along with Armand Sabal-Lecco. He also appeared in the movie “Tuya Siempre” directed by Manuel Lombardero.
After frequent stays in New York, Raynald returned to Barcelona in May 2008 to finish his new CD “Sketches of Groove”, released on November 25, 2008, during the 40th Barcelona Jazz Festival.
In 2009 Raynald presented his most ambitious project “Evocacion” which featured a diversity of musicians; the Flamenco guitarist Chicuelo, the Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz, the Israeli bass player Omer Avital and the American drummer Eric McPherson. This project allowed him to bring together flamenco and contemporary jazz from his own distinctive point of view.
In 2012 Raynald signed with the prestigious label JazzVillage/Harmonia Mundi, releasing his album “Rise”, with heavy praises by the press and public.
The Catalan Jazz and Modern Music Association awarded him as Best Trumpet Player in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005. He won the Enderrock Awards “Jazz Record of the Year” in 2005 for “My 51 minutes”, was awarded Best Spanish Jazz Album of 2009 for “Evocacion” by the renowned Spanish Cuadernos de Jazz magazine, and received the prestigious Puig-Porret Award in 2010.
My Media
- Website: http://www.raynaldcolom.net
- Twitter: raynaldcolom
- Instagram: raynaldcolom
- YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7MadDFhjEaURSX3cYnoUHA
Click to Listen on Spotify
- (album/podcast 1): http://open.spotify.com/album/1hoGqGpO3ee3Nm18NTngSv
- (album/podcast 2): http://open.spotify.com/album/3kuvgv74PnmtyLvaB125am
- (album/podcast 3): http://open.spotify.com/album/5tBJSRM04Xq3HLPdL0vg4i
- (album/podcast 4): http://open.spotify.com/album/7mFMCFtP6SVvyLSClgTm92
- (album/podcast 5): http://open.spotify.com/album/3YSjk7h7Kf4bX51tSO14DN
Contact Information
- Email: managementraynaldcolom@gmail.com
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Management/Booking:
GATO NEGRO ARTS PRODUCTIONS
Mercè Porras
merce@gatonegroproductions.com
Tel: +34 637 439 999
SPECIAL PROJECTS:
JORDI SUÑOL
International JAZZ PRODUCTIONS
http://inter-jazz.com/web/
Tel: +34 932 117 259
Clips
► Matrix headquarters in Salvador, Bahia. Interview is by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio. Pre Brazil I "rescued" royalties for Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Ray Barretto, Airto Moreira, Earl Carroll of The Cadillacs, Rob Royer of Bread, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), and others.
► The work was a variation of industrial espionage; record companies didn't play fair so neither did we. Here I work with musicians who don't earn royalties but who are no less amazing for it. The matrix is a means of leveraging a sociological/mathematical phenomenon to make them discoverable and accessible from far from their native ground. But for the system to work for them, it has to work for everybody. And every truly creative artist in it means more valid pathways to the Brazilians, and to everybody else.
► Wikipedia: A small-world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but the neighbors of any given node are likely to be neighbors of each other and → most nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps ←
► The Matrix: A small-world network re a type of mathematical graph in which most artists are not curators of one another, but the curators of any given artist are likely to be curators of each other and → most artists can be reached from every other artist by a small number of hops or steps ←
