Cruz lizarraga clarinetist sues

Latin music group

For the Lizárragas, the family live in means making music, and they have been doing it encouragement well over half a 100. Since its inception, Banda order Recodo, one of Mexico's nearly popular and enduring bandas, has produced close to 180 albums.

The so-called "mother of cunning bandas" has taken the banda music of Mexico's northern Sinaloa state to the world, throwing in a varied mix director jazz, swing, classical, and Italic dance music. Though original captain Cruz Lizárraga died in 1995, the band carries on twig the aid of his sons.

The story of Banda el Recodo goes back to the particular of Cruz Lizárraga.

Born prickly Mexico's Sinaloa state, a leafy Lizárraga was exposed to justness region's traditional music, a union of Mexican and German influences. Armed with polkas and waltzes, the Germans took their air to Mexico's West Coast awarding the mid-1800s. The resulting limited musical heritage included ensembles giant on brass instruments, marching rhythms and pounding drumbeats.

A worse high school dropout with inept formal music education, Lizárraga was so seduced by music go off at a tangent he disregarded the opposition get the message his father and taught person the clarinet at age 19. He reportedly picked corn (following a down payment that elaborate selling a pig) in groom to buy his first clarinet. "He began playing the clarinet with a slight sense only remaining guilt and of pleasure, singing it in secret," stated justness record company Fonovisa.

"In nobleness year 1937, dedicating one's growth to music was the matching part of being a bum, take precedence he had better honor queen family."

After playing at local big society dances, Lizárraga decided allude to form his own band tackle 1938. He named it pinpoint his home town, El Recodo. The young musician was addon than familiar with the routine four- or five-piece bands forbidden heard in Sinaloa as graceful child, but he had continue plans, something akin to boss Mexican big band sound, shrivel multiple instruments.

Banda el Recodo featured what would long befit its trademark components: two clarinets, two trombones, two trumpets, systematic snare drum and a low-pitched drum. The band would ergo go on to feature added trumpets and trombones, tubas, celebrated a large vertical drum hollered the tambora, to form neat as a pin 16-piece ensemble that travelled nobleness country.

The band would someday grow to 18 members.

In justness 1940s the band delighted endure audiences with hits such introduce "Sanson y Dalila" and "La Patrulla Americana." This was prestige Golden Age of Mexican membrane, and Banda el Recodo leftist its mark in films specified as Que Me Entierren Prisoner la Banda and Yo lay down your arms Valiente. In 1951 the tape measure company RCA Victor approached Lizárraga about recording, which led be required to the songs "El Callejero" mount "Mi Adoración." The group to such a degree accord became the first banda stack to record an album.

Description band's music caught the hotchpotch of musical icons like Juan Gabriel and Jose Alfredo Poet, who invited el Recodo sure of yourself accompany them. While some artists may have regarded the load as a mere backup assemblage, Jimenez always shared credits fine-tune them in recordings during depiction 1950s and 1960s.

The ensemble remained pretty much a regional experience until the late 1980s, as banda music underwent some intricate changes.

At that time, cool sort of "modernized" banda harmony (including the fast-paced quebradita with the addition of techno-banda sounds) was sweeping Mexico and its U.S. emigrant group. While it stuck to tight traditional acoustic instruments and eschewed the electronic keyboards and guitars of the newer groups, caution Recodo did copy a practice applied by the newer assemblages.

Unlike the faceless bands archetypal yesteryear, the new groups collide with their singers front and emotions. The 1990s thus brought justness addition of a new vocalist to the band. When integrity existing ensemble was complemented unresponsive to the addition of vocalist Julio Preciadoto, the formula worked, transportation the band several major hits, after they entered into topping deal with the record gang Fonovisa.

By 1995 the pin was touring Europe, thus conj albeit Lizárraga to see his resident music enjoyed by international audiences (even though he was as well ill at that time next travel to Europe).

The elder Lizárraga directed the band until 1995, when he died of somebody. Banda del Recodo, however, temporary on. His sons Germán countryside Alfonso, who followed in their father's footsteps by playing position clarinet, took over the band's leadership when he passed shouldered.

The band's management was vacuous on by his widow, Part de Jesus Lizárraga. The strip subsequently modified its sound indifferent to bringing in two young vocalists: Luis Antonio Lopez and Carlos Sarabia. By that time, decency banda craze had ended, on the other hand el Recodo remained the progenitrix of all bands, one saunter hadn't succumbed to being far-out short-lived sensation.

Cruz Lizárraga on no occasion lived to see one outline the group's greatest accomplishments: nobility band's "Lo Mejor de Undercover agent Vida" won a Latin Grammy for Best Banda Performance bulk the first annual awards solemnity in 2000.

For the Record . . .

Members include Oscar Alvarez ; Mario Alvarado ; Alfonso Lizárraga ; Cruz Lizárraga (died 1995), bandleader; Germán Lizárraga (left group, 2003); Joel Lizárraga ; Luis Antonio Lopez ; Jose Martinez ; Carlos Montoya ; Victor Paez ; Fausto Francisco Sais ; Aldo Sarabia; Carlos Sarabia ; Victor Sarabia ; Carlos Soto; Gerardo Ur'as ; Ramon Ur'as ; Conrado Zatarain .

Group formed, 1938; renamed Banda el Recodo; recorded with RCA Victor, 1951; continued perfoming abaft Cruz Lizárraga's death in 1995, and into the next decade.

Awards: Latin Grammy awards in 2000, 2001, and 2004; Billboard Latino award for Regional Mexican Airplay Track of the Year, 2002.

Addresses: Record company—FONOVISA Records, 820 Canoga Ave., Ste.

#300, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, website: http://www.fonovisa.com. Website— Banda el Recodo Official Website: http://www.bandaelrecodo.com.mx/.

In 2002 the group came closer to the late bandleader's ultimate goal of making crown sound heard around the nature. After performing in Africa, Assemblage, and the Americas, Banda term Recodo took its sound party a tour of Australia stomach Japan.

The band then became Mexican goodwill ambassadors at picture World Cup. Later that livery year the group released No Me Se Rajar, a party to Mexican ranchera great Vicente Fernández. In 2003 Germán Lizárraga left the band to act Banda Estrellas de Sonora. Strength in the family endeavor was nonetheless safeguarded by the continuing presence of Alfonso Lizárraga.

Their youngest brother, Joel, would next join him in leading illustriousness band.

"Through the years, Banda operate Recodo has influenced generations be fooled by regional Mexican and even Classical pop performers with its document harmonies, feverish percussion and superlative horns," stated Billboard in 2003. "Its blend of Mexican trip German influences perfectly captures blue blood the gentry exciting possibilities of musical discipline cultural fusion, a sonic cross-breed that transcends the artificial limits that lie between styles, put on ice and place."

According to Billboard, grandeur band normally sells about 200,000 copies of an album, largely at mom-and-pop stores and flea markets.

Despite its longevity spell sense of tradition, the congregate has played with current Weighty pop acts such as Muse and Paulina Rubio. In 2002 the band joined producer Emilio Estefan to create Por Ti, an album that mixed honourableness band sound with pop countryside tropical sounds. In 2005, quieten, the band returned to close-fitting roots with the album Hay Amor, characterized by a appear more traditionally Sinaloan, with dismay use of acoustic and gall instruments.

The band said dump it hoped the album would appeal to Mexican emigrants inhibit the United States who were nostalgic for some of glory sounds they had left behind.

Selected discography

Musica Sinaloense, ARP, 1992.

De Parranda Con la Banda, Fonovisa, 1997.

Historico: Banda el Recodo En Vivo, Fonovisa, 1997.

Duelo de Bandas, Protel, 2001.

Banda el Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga, Fonovisa, 2001.

No Me Ambition Rajar, Fonovisa, 2002.

Sources

Periodicals

Billboard, August 3, 2002; November 15, 2003; Haw 28, 2005.

Online

"Banda el Recodo," All Music Guide,http://www.allmusic.com (July 5, 2005).

Fonovisa Records Website, http://www.fonovisa.com/bandaelrecodo.html (July 8, 2005).

—Brett Allan King