Juan Pablo Torres
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Juan Pablo Torres Morell (Puerto Padre, August 17, 19461-Miami, April 17, 2005) was a Cuban jazz trombonist, music producer, conductor and arranger. He was considered one of the best Latin jazz trombonists.
A native of Eastern Cuba, he graduated from the National School of Art (ENA) in a year and a half and from 1967 he played in Armando Romeu's 'Cuban Orchestra of Modern Music', where Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and Chucho Valdes. Beginning in the mid-1970s he released a series of Latin jazz albums under his own name. In the following years he worked in Cuba and, later, in the United States with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Don Cherry, Gato Barbieri, Mongo Santamaría, Slide Hampton, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Gadd, Charles Aznavour, Hilton Ruiz, Néstor Torres and Giovanni Hidalgo. , among others.1 In 2001 he participated in the Cuban Masters project, where he played with Cachao and Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros; the resulting album, Cuban Masters, Los Originales was nominated for several Latin Grammys.
Juan Pablo Torres also worked as a producer for the Cuban state record label EGREM. In 1984 he was in Italy, where he recorded Astor Piazzolla's music for Marco Bellocchio's feature film Enrico IV. In 1992 he traveled to Spain with his wife Elsa Lazo to celebrate various performances. There he had the opportunity to continue working at the Zaragoza Superior Conservatory of Music and never returned to Cuba. The following year he moved to Miami.5 In the 2000s he produced Generoso, how good you play! as a tribute to the one who was trombonist for Beny Moré between 1955 and 1959, Generoso Jiménez or Together again with Chucho Valdés and other Cuban musicians. His last job was directing and arranging for Clara, a song included in the soundtrack of the movie Para que no me Olvidas by Patricia Ferreira.