Biography

Trumpeter Mariano Loiácono was born in Cruz Alta, Córdoba, in 1982. He played in the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the National University of Rosario and in the Opera Orchestra of Rosario. He attended the Escuela de Música Contemporánea and studied trumpet with Fernando Ciancio and Juan Cruz de Urquiza. He participated in clinics given by Wynton Marsalis and Chris Potter and took lessons with Alex Sipiagin. Since 2007, he has been a trumpet teacher at the Escuela Municipal de Música Juan Bautista Massa, in Rosario. La Nación newspaper voted him Best New Jazz Artist 2006, and Clarín, Best New Jazz Artist 2008. At the end of 2007, he was named Distinguished Citizen in his hometown. I Knew It (BAU) was the first album he recorded as a leader of a quintet. With this band, he traveled across Argentina, from Ushuaia to Córdoba, and performed in Uruguay. Loiácono and his quintet opened for drummer Billy Cobham at the Gran Rex Theater. What’s New is his second album and the first one released for RivoRecords. The quintet made up of Gustavo Musso (tenor sax), Francisco Lo Vuolo (piano), Jerónimo Carmona (double bass) and Pepi Taveira (drums) plays a repertoire of standards in a hard-bop style. The album will be performed at this edition of the Buenos Aires Jazz, on November 2 at La Trastienda Club.