This is a long one. The people on my top friends are some of the people I work with lately and other artists (Friends!) on which recordings I have participated. Hattler's new record just came out and I play on two tracks and he is way cool.
Heading North, Gitano and Ultra are from my solo CD Heading North, with Carmen Rizzo doing the programming and mixing on Gitano and Ultra. But I also play with many other people from many other styles including Flamenco, Salsa, Rock and World...life is too short you know?. So check out my calendar to see what I am up to.
Grazie,
JF
Influences
Wow! That is a long, long list!!!...In a nutshell:The classical masters first! Wolfgang, Ludwig, Johann Sebastian, Johannes, Claude, Nicolo and Maurice. My classical violin heros: Kogan, Rabin, Oistrakh, Szering, Milstein, Gingold, Ysaye, Ferras and Stern. Then my other violin heros: Jerry Goodman, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, David Cross, Billy Bang, Jean Luc Ponty, Noel Pointer, Robbie Steinhard, David Ragsdale, David LaFlamme, Darol Anger, Chris Howes, Bill Monroe, Stephane Grapelli, John Blake Jr. Claude Williams, and the one and only Mark O'Connor! Bands? Led Zepellin, Kansas, UK, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu, A Beautiful Day, The Flock, The Dixie Dregs, Massive Attack, Irakere, Dave Grissman Quintet, Turtle Island SQ, Sintesis, Depeche Mode, and Hattler (Just to keep it short ok?). Diversity is the antidote to monotony. Give it try!
Sounds Like
Hopefully you can't really pin-point it, but you think it sounds good!
Music is the soundtrack of life, I say. I was born in paradise Venezuela, in the city of Sunsets and Music, Barquisimeto. I grew up with all kinds of music around my house. I have travelled the world and lived in the U.S. for a long time. My dad a great singer of folk music, Tangos and Bossas, il mio Nono and his operas, my older cousins with Led Zeppelin and Miles Davis, an open format radio with all kinds of music. And don't let me forget seranading!...yes like you've read in books and watched in movies? It is still alive in my beautiful home country, so I would grab my violin since I was very young and play along with the older and experienced 'serenateros', making up stuff and learning to play what was in my ears. All that combined with a solid classical training with some of the best violinists in the world makes me feel like I am dreaming it all. So since my background is very diverse so my music has to be diverse too. These tracks are either from my first solo album "Heading North", or the one I am currently working on "Global talk", a Techno/World/Trance/Latin/Rock melting pot with the great Malek lending his words of wisdom to color to my music. Keep in touch...much more to come including a show of my acoustic side (where it all began)!
Teaching is also an essential part of my life, I do clinics and workshops all over the world taylored to the specific needs of each school or camp (Feel free to inquire about that too) and of course I freelance, but only with the people that I have something in common with, so come on down and check some shows out. I love to play live!
Much Love to all,
JF
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Gracias Eduardo! Bueno, mi website me estaba dando problemas con el audio, así que lo desmonté y la verdad es que no he tenido tiempo de rehacerlo, así que un colega me animó para poner algo acá ... y acá estoy. Sólo 5 días en Venezuela!Yo lo he hecho también, es una locura, pero si uno no lo hace así pues uno no va por esperar tener más tiempo.
salut je t'envoie tous mes meilleurs voeux pour 2009 ta musique est toujours aussi plaisante et je reste volontiers quelques temps sur ton site que je n'avais pas revisité depuis un bon moment. Plein de bonnes choses cette année, surtout des rencontres humaines! Bix..........Mô
Jesus! long time no talk! Hope you're doing well. Just wanted to let you know that I just recorded a demo, and I have it up on my myspace. Please listen, and I hope to talk to you very soon!
