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Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Label: EchoMusic Products
Management: Emerson Bran Management(310) 295-4259www.emersonbranmanagement.combookings@emersonbranmanagement.com
Website: www.justoalmario.net
Genre: Jazz
Justo Almario is a master saxophonist, a flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and clinician. His style fuses jazz, South American, and other world rhythms, and has been heard on Grammy Award-winning works by Linda Ronstadt, Placido Domingo, Luis Miguel, Andrae Crouch, and Israel Lopez Cachao, as well as on the Oscar‐winning soundtracks from Happy Feet and Sideways.
Almario’s playing has been featured on diverse projects, including Queen Latifah’s Living Out Loud, Jennifer Lopez’s HBO special Let’s Get Loud, Andy Garcia’s The Lost City, and John Turturro’s Romance and Cigarettes. Almario has also played on various platinum and gold records and soundtracks, and was part of the Newport Jazz Festival tour in 2002.
Almario was the featured soloist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale for the season opener at the Walt Disney Hall, where he later performed at the Christmas concert, Celebrar. He has performed with Patrice Rushen’s Grammy Award orchestra, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Ayers, Diane Reeves, George Duke, Sergio Mendes, Billy Higgins, Tito Puente, Machito, Dave Grusin, Ndugu Chancler, Kenny Burrell, Master P, Bebe Winans, Charles Mingus, Chaka Kahn, Herb Alpert, Bobby Shew, and many others. His career was recently celebrated by World Stage Stories, an oral history series chronicling the evolution of jazz.
A native of Colombia, Almario studied at the Berklee College of Music before becoming musical director for Mongo Santamaria. He taught at the Henry Mancini Institute and has mentored inner-city youth during workshops at the World Stage. He currently teaches saxophone at the UCLA School of Music and is working on a new album.
“Legendary Saxophonist, Justo Almario's New Single "BeBop Drive" and His New iPhone App Got The Groove that Makes You Move...
Justo’s iPhone application was released on Mother’s Day making him the first Latin Jazz artist and 1 of 12 Jazz artists to have one. The app will keep his fans updated with his roundabouts and much more!
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Billboard Publicity Wire
“International Saxophonist, Justo Almario Featured in Kung Fu Panda Original
Musical Score, Co-Written By Hans Zimmer & John Paul
The legendary Justo Almario was also featured on the recently released documentary Cachao:
Uno Mas & talks about his friendship with Israel Lopez "Cachao" an unforgettable story.”
Billboard Publicity Wire
“Justo Almario Joins Talents of Super-Star Proportions Highlighting
Globalization at its Best
Legendary saxophonist Justo Almario recently joined fellow Colombian Juanes and American
superstar Fergie on the new album, by Sergio Mendes, Encanto, to be released in stores June 10,
2008.”
Billboard Publicity Wire
“Los Angeles, CA (Billboard Publicity Wire / PRWEB) March 24, 2009 -- International saxophonist/arranger Justo Almario joins a diverse panel of 110 participants from all over the world at the Sixty-First Annual Conference on World Affairs on April 6-10, 2009. Presented by the University of Colorado at Boulder, the annual event is sure to offer a refreshing look at the world through perspectives from distinct worlds--including Justo Almario's Latin and jazz world. Some of the people on the panel this year include: NPR Correspondent Margot Adler, Retired Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain, New York Times Journalist, James Glanz, and Film Critic Roger Ebert from Chicago Sun Times. Other musicians also attending the panel include: Dave and Don Grusin, Oscar Castro-Neves, and Nestor Torres. Panelists from previous conferences include Vice President Joseph Biden, Ralph Nader, and Ariana Huffington from the Huffington Post.”
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