Gerardo Núñez
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Date of birth
Place of birth
Biography
Gerardo Núñez Díaz was born in Jerez de la Frontera in 1961 and is one of the most important guitarist that this land has ever given birth to He took his first steps by the side of Rafael del Águila, going on to be a frequent guitarist at this city´s Study of Flamenco Professorship. Here he had the luck of standing side by side with figures such as Tío Gregorio el Borrico, Terremoto or La Paquera, with who he learnt the basis of accompaniment between 1975 and 1982.
Afterwards toured with Paco Cepero around Japan and passed on to form part of Mario Mayas´ company, to which Rafael Riqueni and Paco Jarana also belonged. However Gerardo didn´t take long in getting along on his own and formed an artistic partnership with his wife, the dancer Carmen Cortés. Soon he went to live in Madrid where he ended up taking the leap. It was here that his relationship with jazz began. It was in the eighties, when he collaborated with Dave Thomas, José Antonio Galicia, Tomás San Miguel and Paquito D´Rivera. His first record arrived in 1987 and was entitled El gallo azul. Thanks to this he gained a fixed place in, not only flamenco festival but guitar festivals worldwide.
In 1989 he recorded Flamencos en Nueva York, which served to consolidate him at the apex of flamenco guitar playing Three years later he inaugurated the Flamenco Guitar Seminar in Jerez, although he only spent one year there, as by the following edition he had moved to Sanlúcar de Barrameda. It is a curious that Gerardo has been in demand from personalities outside the world of flamenco music, to record albums Namely: Plácido Domingo, Teresa Berganza, Joaquín Sabina, Víctor Manuel, Julio Iglesias, Ana Belén, Isabel Pantoja, Antonio Carbonell, Rocío Jurado, Azúcar Moreno, Rosario, Los Chichos, Los Manolos, Mecano, Wollenweider.
He produced and accompanied the Indio Gitano and created his own record company, which called the same as his first record and with which he edited Jucal. His record, Calima, was recorded in the United States in 1988 with the collaboration of jazz musicians such as Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and the Armenian percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan From then on he hasn´t stopped interchanges with jazz through the New York Flamenco Reunion.
In 2001 he collaborated with Israel Galván in the production of a show which has given rise to great expectation from enthusiasts, as Gerardo Núñez, is, as they say in the 'jondo´ forums, the born successor of Paco de Lucía.
Discography
Álbum:
1987 El Gallo Azul (LP, Álbum) Flamencos Accidentales FA-001
2002 El Gallo Azul (CD, Álbum, RE) Flamencos Accidentales 5046600572
1989 Flamencos en Nueva York (CD, Álbum) Flamencos Accidentales 0630-13791-2
1989 Flamencos en Nueva York (LP, Álbum) Flamencos Accidentales FA-007
1989 Flamencos en Nueva York (LP, Álbum) veraBra Records No. 28
1989 Flamencos en Nueva York (CD, Álbum) veraBra Records No. 28
2002 Flamencos en Nueva York (CD, Álbum, RE) Flamencos Accidentales 5046600562
1991 Gerardo Núñez, Grupo Linaje - A Toda Rumba (LP, Álbum) Fonomusic 89.2990
1994 Jucal (CD, Álbum) El Gallo Azul F-001
1996 Jucal (CD, Álbum) Alula Records ALU-1002
1998 Calima (CD, Álbum) El Gallo Azul F-003
1998 Calima (CD, Álbum) Paradoxx Music, Alula Records 2409027-1
1998 Calima (CD, Álbum) Alula Records ALU-1007
2000 Gerardo Núñez/ Chano Domínguez - Jazzpaña II (CD, Álbum) ACT 9284-2
2001 Gerardo Núñez, Perico Sambeat - Jazz viene del Sur - Cruce de Caminos (CD, Álbum) Resistencia RSCD115
2002 Perico Sambeat, Jeanne Lee, Gerardo Núñez, Paolo Fresu, Esperanza Fernández, Julián Argüelles, Carlos Martín, George Colligan, Manuel Soler, Fareed Haque, Javier Colina, Marc Miralta - Pasajes / Passages (Jazz viene del Sur) (CD, Álbum) Resistencia RESCD135
2003 Gerardo Núñez presenta Antón Jiménez, Vicente Cortés, Juan Antonio Suárez, José Manuel León, Jesús de Rosario - The New School of Flamenco Guitar / La Nueva Escuela de la Guitarra Flamenca (CD, Álbum) ACT 9413-2
2002 Un Ramito de Locura - Carmen Linares con Gerardo Núñez trío (CD, Álbum) Mercury 0044001775420
2002 Un Ramito de Locura - Carmen Linares con Gerardo Núñez trío (Cass, Álbum) Mercury 0044001775444
2008 Un Ramito de Locura - Carmen Linares con Gerardo Núñez trío (CD, Álbum, Ltd, RE, Boo) El País 9788498159370
2004 Andando el Tiempo (CD, Álbum) ACT 9426-2
2012 Travesía (CD, Álbum) ACT 9534-2
2015 Gerardo Núñez, Ulf Wakenius, Chano Domínguez, Ramón Valle Trío, Christof Lauer, Cepillo - Jazzpaña Live (CD, Álbum) ACT 9585-2
2016 Gerardo Nuñez & Ulf Wakenius - Logos. Percusión: Cepillo, Cante: Cancun, Palmas y jaleos: Carmen Cortés, Isabel Núñez (CD) ACT 9822-2
Singles y EPs:
1989 Queda la sal (7") Grabaciones Accidentales FA-10007-1
Recopilatorios:
2000 Gerardo Núñez, Chano Domínguez - Jazzpaña II (CD, Comp, Promo) AcT Promo #7, LC 07644
2002 Con Aire Flamenco - Carmen Linares, Combays, El Combo Linga, Enrique de Melchor, Gerardo Núñez, La Carmen, Los Cholos, Luis de Córdoba, El Capullo de Jerez, Paco Toronjo, La Macanita, Veneno y Vicente Soto "Sordera" (CD + Libro recopilatorio) DRO EAST WEST S.A. LC 04720 -5046613942
Further information
Premios y Galardones:
Premio catavino de Plata “Cátedra de Flamencología de Jerez"
Premio de la crítica musical Alemania 1999
Premio crítica flamenca mejor disco de guitarra por “Calima”
Premio crítica flamenca mejor disco instrumental “Cruce de Caminos" Premio Nacional de flamenco “Cátedra de Flamencología de Jerez" Premio crítica flamenca mejor acompañante flamenco por “Ramito de locura “
Giraldillo de la Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla 2002 (mejor solista guitarra flamenca)
Giraldillo de la Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla 2004 (mejor solista guitarra flamenca)
Premio Demófilo "Fundación Antonio Machado" Sevilla 2004
Medalla de honor Arthur Rubinstein del "Conservatorio Haikovsky" de Moscú
Premio de la crítica al mejor productor flamenco 2010
