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Thomas Lorenzo
Mediterranean Latin Guitar. Son of Spanish immigrants that left behind fascism in the 50's to start a new life in Australian democracy. He started playing the spanish guitar at the age of ten in a musical environment based on traditional Spanish music and the Australian's 70's rock and pop scene. When Franco died and democracy was reinstalled in Spain the family returned to Barcelona. In time he became an active player in the Barcelona Music scene successfully achieving with his first band being selected as finalist at the yearly held festival of the “Spanish Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales” in Ibiza, 1989, where promising new jazz artists are awarded. In 1989 he was accepted by Berklee College of Music, Boston, U.S.A, graduating in Commercial Arranging in 1992 under the supervision of Grammy award winner Robert Freedman. In the following years his career as a guitarist and composer went in up rise. Hired in 1993 buy the Bogota's (Colombia) World Trade Centre recording studio, Sincrosonido, as composer and arranger for their latin american production services. This was the place where latin music finally came soaring into his music. He then moved back to Spain and just kept on going strong touring France for four years on the Europe Connection Projects culminating in a series of commissions by The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts and The National Arts Lottery Council to write a 50 minute suite called the Immigrant and the commission to write the book on Arranging and Composition, “El Arreglo, Un Puzzle de Expresion musical," by the Spanish Society of Authors. His experience has been sought in the educational field as lecturer of the Universidad Internacional Menedez Pelayo, as part time teacher at Paul Mc Cartney's Liverpool Institute for the Performings Arts and as lecturer at the L' Aula de Musica Moderna i Jazz of The Barcelona Liceo Conservatory. In 2003 he decides to settle down in Barcelona and for his own pleasure compose and produce his own music in the manner to portray to others his needs and passions for life. Four solo CD's in six years, EL DESEO, ESPACIO, JUEGO DE ALMAS, SPANISH BREEZE, national tours playing at top theatres and venues along side top Spanish performers as JORDI BONELL (Spanish Guitar), Pepe Motos (flamenco percussionist ex Sarah Bara Tomatito, Paco de Lucia)and international artists backing him up as Alphonso Johnson (Weather Report) Dave Garfield (George Benson) Walfredo Reyes ( Santana) Bruce Sugar (Ringo Star) His work has become a reflection of contemporary catalan culture, a Mediterranean culture.
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Thomas Lorenzo: Spanish Breeze
by Edward Blanco
Guitarist Thomas Lorenzo moved to Barcelona, Spain in 2003 and has since produced four solo albums, including the very charming Spanish Breeze. The son of Spanish immigrants, who fled Franco's Spain and settled in Lorenzo's birth place of Australia, Lorenzo never really forgot his Spanish ancestry, learning to weave traditional Spanish music within the Australian rock and pop music he often performed.
Some of that rock and pop influence comes through on the first five tracks of Spanish Breeze, where ...
Continue ReadingSpanish Breeze Moves to #24 on Next Week's JazzWeek World Chart
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Barcelona Music
Thomas Lorenzo's latest CD, Spanish Breeze, Barcelona Music 2009 is moving up in the charts to #24 on next week's Jazz-Week World Chart Track 6 Dulzura Con Rabia" will be added to the New Music Hour with Maria Lopez which airs on smoothjazznetwork.com Thomas believes that this album is a portrait of his Australian Spanish heritage where he seeks to share with his listeners all those imperfections that make us human beings and make us feel proud, shy, embarrassed, confused, ...
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New CD Release Thomas Lorenzo Quartet, "Spanish Breeze"
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Barcelona Music
Barcelona Music presents the Thomas Lorenzo Quartet's Spanish Breeze. A Crossroads of Australian and Spanish culture.
I am the son of Spanish immigrants that left behind fascism in the 50's to start a new life in Australian democracy. This CD is the crossroad where Australia and Spain meet," says Thomas Lorenzo
Alphonso Johnson (Weather Report), Dave Garfield (George Benson) and Walfredo Reyes Jr (Santana) were enchanted by the compositions of an Australian Spanish composer on the other side of the ...
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PLAYBOY Music to make love. It takes you directly to pleasures beyond the simple orgasm.. GUITAR PLAYER He has undressed his being and has tried to portray what he sees inside himself through his instrument. This cd "deseo” is proof of it. RNE/ Radio 3/ Fluido Rosa A seeker of the philosoher's stone that does not allow the passing of time to degrade his compositions.
Primary Instrument
Guitar, acoustic
Location
Barcelona
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Merry Go Round
From: Spanish BreezeBy Thomas Lorenzo