| Pedro Iturralde | |
|---|---|
 Iturralde performing in 2013 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Pedro Iturralde Ochoa |
| Born | 13 July 1929 Falces, Spain |
| Died | 1 November 2020(2020-11-01) (aged 91) Madrid, Spain |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | Saxophone, clarinet, flute |
Pedro Iturralde Ochoa (13 July 1929 – 1 November 2020) was a Spanish jazz saxophonist, teacher and composer.
Biography
Iturralde was born in Falces on 3 July 1929. He began his musical studies with his father and performed in his first professional engagements on saxophone at age eleven. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where he studied clarinet, piano, and harmony.
He went on to lead his own jazz quartet at the W. Jazz Club in Madrid, experimenting with the combined use of flamenco and jazz, and making recordings for the Blue Note label. In 1972 he undertook further study in harmony and arranging at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He taught saxophone at the Madrid Royal Conservatory from 1978 until his retirement in 1994.
He appeared in Spain and abroad as a soloist with the Spanish National Orchestra under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sergiu Celibidache, Igor Markevitch, and others.
When he was 20 years old he composed Czárdás for saxophone. He dedicated the present version of the work, orchestrated by his brother Javier, to a friend, saxophonist Theodore Kerkezos.
He made recordings with the renowned flamenco guitarists Paco de Lucía (Columbia YS-2072-H, 1967 and Hiaspavox, 1968), Pepe de Antequerra (Columbia YS-2072-H, 1967) and Paco Cepero (CBS, 1975). He also recorded with jazz vocalist Donna Hightower on her I'm In Love with Love album (Columbia, 1974) and arranged/conducted on her El Jazz y Donna Hightower album (Columbia, 1975).
He died in Madrid on 1 November 2020.
Discography
As leader
- Jazz Flamenco (Hispavox, 1967)
- Jazz Flamenco 2 (Hispavox, 1968)
- Flamenco Studio (CBS, 1976)
- Los Ojos de Eva (Hispavox, 1982)
- Fabuloso (Hispavox, 1982)
- Una Noche en el Central (Nueva Década, 1994)
- Memorias (Sonograf, 1998) – with Feeling Sax Ensemble
- Etnofonías (Dado Dada, 1999)
With Pedro Iturralde Quartet
- Pedro Iturralde Quartet (Hispavox/Fresh Sound Records, 1986) – with Hampton Hawes
With Pedro Iturralde Quintet
- Flamenco-Jazz (SABA, 1968) – with Paco de Lucía
As composer
- Juan M. Jiménez, Esteban Ocaña and Claude Delangle: Complete Music for Saxophone and Piano (Naxos, 2016)
References
- "Noticias de última hora de Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, Alava y Navarra | EiTB Noticias". Eitb24.com. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
- ^ "Muere Pedro Iturralde, gran maestro del jazz español" (in Spanish). ABC. 1 November 2020. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020.
- "Muere el compositor de jazz y saxofonista Pedro Iturralde a los 91 años" (in Spanish). El Español. 1 November 2020.
External links
- Iturralde, Pedro Naxos profile
- Flamenco World (in Spanish)
- Pedro Iturralde discography at Discogs
- Pedro Iturralde at IMDb
- 1929 births
- 2020 deaths
- Spanish classical musicians
- Spanish jazz saxophonists
- Spanish jazz composers
- Madrid Royal Conservatory alumni
- Academic staff of the Madrid Royal Conservatory
- 21st-century classical composers
- 20th-century Spanish classical composers
- Jazz tenor saxophonists
- Jazz soprano saxophonists
- Spanish male classical composers
- 20th-century Spanish musicians
- 20th-century saxophonists
- 21st-century saxophonists
- 20th-century Spanish male musicians
- 21st-century Spanish male musicians
- Spanish male jazz musicians
- People from Ribera Arga-Aragón