Atlantic Jazz Lab Orchestra (AJLO) is a jazz orchestra founded in 2017 as the Orquesta de Jazz del Atlántico, part of the Laboratorio Atlántico de Jazz y Nuevas Músicas, an organisation devoted to promoting jazz in, for and from the Canary Islands.
The AJLO is led by trumpeter Natanael Ramos, one of the outstanding musicians of his generation. Beyond his work directing the orchestra, Ramos is also a composer, arranger and teacher, and has won several awards, among them first prize for Big Band Composition from the Granada Jazz Association and the SGAE Foundation in 2015.
The orchestra brings together some of the finest and most respected jazz musicians in the country, with a repertoire that runs from the classics —Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Frank Sinatra— to new compositions and arrangements by writers such as Kenny Wheeler, Chris Kase, Miguel Blanco and Peter Beets. It has toured all of the Canary Islands and other parts of Spain, and appeared at festivals including the Canary Islands International Music Festival and the Canary Islands International Jazz Festival.
Beyond the stage, the AJLO is committed to music education and runs many programmes and workshops for young musicians and students. Its discography opens with Garajonay Suite, and a second album with Esther van Hees is on the way, titled It’s Too Darn Hot!
Orchestra members
Natanael Ramos
TrumpetDirector
Álvaro Artime
Trumpet
Alessio Lubrano
Trumpet
Julian Díaz
Trumpet
Pablo Martínez
Trombone
Cristo Delgado
Trombone
Pablo González
Trombone
Fernando Sánchez
Alto sax
Diego Jiménez
Alto sax
Cameron Rivero
Tenor sax
Marcos Pérez
Tenor sax
Fernando Barrios
Baritone sax
Daahoud Salim
Piano
Paco Charlín
Double bass
Andreu Pitarch
Drums
Extended roster
Antoine Coline
Trumpet
Óscar Portolés
Trumpet
Pablo Comiskey
Trumpet
Anders Wilborg
Trombone
Alejandro Suárez
Trombone
Damián García
Trombone
Santiago González
Trombone
Juan Antonio Martín
Sax
Orestes Machado
Sax
Joel González
Piano
Samuel Labrador
Piano
Pablo Díaz
Piano
Giusseppe Campisi
Double bass
David Muñoz
Double bass
Joan Casares
Drums
Upcoming concerts
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Discography
Garajonay
Suite
Suite
The orchestra’s first record, composed by Natanael Ramos and with Fabiola Socas as guest voice. Released by Atlantic Jazz Records when the orchestra was still called Orquesta de Jazz del Atlántico.
The orchestra live
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