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Danny Guerrero - THE Man Behind The Piano

When DannyGuerrero sits to play itself the people piano take the notification. Dressed in the black one with a joyous beret - Guerrero cut an impressive face on the Los Angeles scene of music for thirty some years as some pianist - the composer - arranges- the driver -the accompanist - and all around the storyteller.

Guerrero also is known as a professional technician and affectionately was adjusted "the master of virtuosity of keyboard" for his technique of piano of virtuoso and competences. Its various one "concerts" took it of "Bach to Rach - the Concertos, the opera, the folk songs, Italians and classical, the norms, the blues, the swing and Broadway animate themselves under Guerrero to fly the finger bouts.

For the passed two years nevertheless Guerrero nourished his secret passion to execute jazz and relaxed just his first CD of jazz - the Celebration - that was recorded live to Coffee 322 to Sierra Madre, California where it welcomes a night of jazz the first Thursday of every month.

With the friend and with the colleague, with the drummer/composer Carl Rigoli and with the Flick of Mike of bass player since a long time, Guerrero infuses classical letters of jazz with his classical style and its classical pieces with his jazz conceiving - adds some blues, the swing, a small Latin and even the Riders of Ghost of the Monroe of Vaughn In The Sky and you have a to follow loyal For more of Guerrero of energetic and unique arrangements.

If I asked Danny some questions of "the man in the black beret".

Here the history of DannyaeĤaeĤ

HECTARES: Give a small general general idea of your bottom to the readers and how you obtained your Beginning.

DG: I hail Denver, Colorado where I won a Masters Degree in MusicComposition to the University of Denver. I began my professional career at the age of 16, playing the piano with bands of regional dance. My first instrument was the trumpet and I held the post of first trumpet in a lot of bands and of orchestra.

I am the only professional musician in my family, although my coddled lgrandfather was an avid violiniste. My parents exposed me to the music by the Junior Police Boys Band and to lesson of trumpet and piano. To begun with the Symphony of the Businessman of Denver at the age of 11. My bottom is Spanish Colonial and SpanishBasque and we traced the rear family to the 1500.

HLA: Which famous people have worked you with?

DG: I directed for Charo, Jim Nabors, John Gary, Kathryn

Grayson, Mitzi Gaynor, and Kay Starr, among of others. I worked as the auxiliary driver to the Los Angeles Opera and the Theater of Civic Light Shubert. I worked as a consultant one on the films "All Long Night" and "Corrina Corrina".

The essential ones include the study with Darius Milhaud to the School of Aspen, playing a concerto of piano of Mozart with Judy Collins at the age of 16, receiving a compliment To Shave George when I played for him early in my career, winning the Jack Fina Dances the competition of Woogie in my adolescence, leader the big bands in the principal pieces in Vegas, Reno, Tahoe, etc., leader a lot of the opera Andrea Chenie

HLA: Did you know as a classical musician - why the jazz?

DG: The jazz always was a secret passion. I had a small group of jazz in drunk tsince of high school the jobs took me elsewhere I did not follow jazz as a career. That is why it satisfies especially to return to the jazz in this moment. My arrangements

Include a lot of classical references and probably could be described as the crossed merger.

HLA: Who did you influence musically - classical and the jazz?

DG: Ahmad Jamahl and Andre Previn influenced me in the field of jazz. In my first years, I studied the classical catalog with the big woma nconductor, Dr. Antonia Brico, of that Judy Collins produced a documentary. She gave me the tools to keep to play breadth a long career.

I to reheat myself on the piano while practicing certain of the big classical pieces, and see its notations on almost every bar!

HLA: Your woman is a big singer of opera and the cabaret spectacle, be one of the few one that truly can crossver in every kind. How you met it - you work together?

DG: Norma and I met at a restaurant called for Denver Mario. Norma auditioned for the various businesses of opera and I accompanied it. The family of Lalli possesses now a restaurant to Sierra Madre called Coffee 322 where we execute Sunday evening. We were very close to the family of Lalli since the years 60 and the this are the full circle to work us for them in this moment! Norma and I was married 40 years.

HLA: Which is your favorite brand of piano and why?

DG: Steinway - the oldest one is better than the new one - they have the wonderful resonance and the low the really booms.

HLA: Who is the exterior one of Danny of the world of music?

DG: The cars always were my passion, beginning with a Sprite in my years and continue high school by an Austin Healey, a XKE of Jaguar, etc. Now to drive a Sky of Saturn with the big pleasure. I swim and walks everyday to keep physically capable.

HLA: Which is your next projects or your projects?

DG: Relax another CD of jazz and the work more with my trio of jazz. I would like to return also to direct.

HLA: Do you have a quotation or a favorite piece of music?

DG: One of the classical pieces that I incorporate in my jazz are Concierto of Aranguez by Rodrigo. I appreciate playing also Granados' Playera. The two are included on my album recently of relaxed jazz, the "Celebration".

HLA: Well, the last chance. There is does not import what of you that of others know?

DG: I worked as a bugle to the dog track (the greyhounds) to Denver, dressed in the suit of the typical bugle. When the wind blew, the bugle oscillerait the wind of inthe, the strong fact to play. When the Junior Police Boys Band did to enter parades (often), we would follow the horses, that meant to concentrate on our music and our feet at the same time!

HLA: And without forgetting - any counsel to give a singer or a musician that begins just a career?

DG: Take courses of the music as a matters, something most of the musicians jump.

Thank Danny - you are a stunning musician and a stunning man!

You can see that Danny plays every Sunday evening of 7:00 t10:00 in the evening to tCafed 322, 322 Boulevards of Madre of Sierra of W to Sierra Madre, CALIFORNIA 91204 and on the first Thursday of every month to 322. There is not cover. For the news and the reservations, call 626- 836-5414.

To order the CELEBRATION OF CD of Danny and other CD, please Visits www.dannyguerrero.com or Danny e-mail to filmcompoz@aol.com.