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Nestor Zurita
- Male
- Hallandale, FL
- United States
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- Where are you located?
- Miami FL
- What is your affiliation to the Jazz World?
- Musical Artist, Educator, Composer
- Tell us a little about your background...
- NZ studied at “Manhattan School of Music” and “The New School Jazz”. He has performed thru the United States, Europe, and various countries of Central and South America, playing hundreds of concerts in a wide variety of styles, from Jazz to Classical to Contemporary and Modern Music, and exploring and playing traditional miusic from arround the world. Nestor Has played with Steve Lacy, Dado Moroni, Aldo Zunino, Jovinho Santos Neto, Nick and Mike Orta, Chuck Bergeron, Felix Gomez, etc..A Classical performer he has played concerts with various Symphony Orchestras and has been a guest artist to various universities.
As a composer Nestor Zurita has written hundreds of works for various instruments and especially on the development of the saxophone.
Nestor Zurita was also the Director of the Jazz Department and of the Classical Saxophone Program in the National Conservatory of Ecuador and has taught students of the Paris Conservatorie and Nicolo Paganini Concervatorie in Italy.Nestor currently lives in Miami were he leads his Latin Jazz Quartet, Trio and Duos.
- How did you hear about the Jazz Network? Please give full name of contact
- internet
- What Instrument do you play?
- Saxophone
- What is your website address? Only websites that pertain to your business and how you can be contacted.
- http://www.myspace.com/nestorzurita
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The Jazz Network is exactly what the title suggests, a place where you get to mix and mingle with those who have not only an appreciation for Jazz but a forum to hear new up and coming artists as well. I've hooked up with so many of my old friends that I've lost contact with over the years here and it's been a great place to meet folk, appreciate good music and Musicianship. What an incredible idea!!
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Hi Nestor - I wish you joy with your music - So you're an old geezer like me? Hahaha - Thanks for the impressive mini CV - I've played all over the world for 37 years with great musicians - Toto La Momposina, Marco Vinicio Oyaga, John Serry, Paul Dunmall, Carl Orr, Antonio Quijano, Nobuyoshi Ino, Febian Reza Pane, Moussa Kouyate, Mike Ellis, Tom Alexander, and on and on - they were special artists - but very few players today really surprise me - and they used to call jazz 'the sound of surprise - but if I catch myself unawares, I am still able to surprise myself on occasion - I think if we work in a number of styles then of course we are following the former exponents of those styles, breaking free of those shackles is the hard part - for nothing grows in the shadow of great trees . . . In life as in music I am not happy and am always moving on - restless - no rest for the wicked, they say . . . In Tokyo I met a venerable pianist named Red Rogers who had played with Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Willie the Lion Smith, Bud Freeman, etc, and there he was - playing in a downtown Tokyo piano bar aged over 80, while people talked loud over his gold mine of experience - since this is a lifetime deal - How would you describe your direction in music? What is the nature and purpose of music? Why have so few artists embraced the 'freedom principle'? Why is the audience for jazz shrinking so fast? (Is it because the musicians are too far up themselves? - Haha! I think we should be told - All questions I ask myself regularly . . .
Peace and Love, Beni
Hey Nestor, nice video. Thanks for the friendship. Keep playing, keep it live.
Peace,
Tom
Great music here, Nestor. I enjoyed listening to your amazing playing.
Greetings from Bavaria, Axel