III SGAE Latin Jazz Contest

For the second time, José Luis Madueno is positioned as a finalist on the SGAE Latin jazz contest organized by SGAE (the spanish Authors and Publishers Society) and Fundacion Autor. The last phase of this contest took place in Cuba as part of the La Habana Jazz Festival on December 2002. This contest is performed each two years and its main purpose is to diffuse latin jazz music.

The jury was composed by talented and well known musicians: the cuban piano performers Chucho Valdes and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the spanish saxophone and flute performer Jorge Pardo, the puertorican percussionist Bobby Sanabria and the american flute performer Dave Valentin.

This III version of the contest had eight finalist composers: two cubans, two spanish, two brazilians, a colombian and a peruvian. The compositions were performed on an open concert by the cuban band Irakere and Jose Luis obtained the second prize, for the second consecutive time, with his afroperuvian composition titled "En el rincon".

Jose Luis put his faith in sending a composition based on an afroperuvian rhythm: the festejo. This kind of music has a unique feel; the cajon peruano is the instrument that plays the main role. Afroperuvian music is starting to cross frontiers and constitutes a fresh sound for all audiences, very used to afro caribbean music.

Make click on the image at the bottom right of this window and listen a demo of En el rincon, recorded and sequenced on keyboards. The audio file is compressed at 48 kbps.

En el rincon