Alexis Baro is a Juno nominated, Cuban-born trumpet virtuoso, composer, and arranger. His work encompasses jazz, Afro-Cuban music, Latin jazz and large-ensemble music. He’s appeared on more than 200 recordings and he’s released eight albums as a leader. His album “Afrokando” received a Juno nomination for Jazz Album of the Year. He’s performed and with Herbie Hancock, Paquito D’Rivera, Michael Bublé, and Andrea Bocelli, among others.
My featured song is "Mi Cachimber All Stars”, my recent single. Spotify link.
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SONGFEST:
- African Escape (17:07)
- Homenaje a la Trompeta Cubana (18:52)
- Paseando por la Vida (23:20)
- Afro Cubania (24:56)
DISCUSSION SEGMENTS:
- 4:29 — Why Canada: Toronto was the first city he toured outside Cuba, and its welcoming musicians made it the place to build a new musical life
- 5:46 — Growing up in Cuba in a musical family; the trumpet picked him — his cellist mother kept finding him in the trumpet room
- 7:31 — Principal trumpet of Cuba's national radio and television orchestra at 19, after doubling the lead player an octave higher until he was invited to take the chair
- 9:19 — Moving to Toronto at 20 to learn jazz, funk and R&B he could not properly access in Cuba, and to help support his family
- 10:32 — Opening for Herbie Hancock at the Ottawa Jazz Festival and playing on Hancock's stage equipment
- 11:51 — Wynton Marsalis in Havana (1997): spotted in the street, invited to play, and later jamming with him after the Toronto Jazz Festival
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"Short, Sweet and Totally Different"
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