Tuesday, April 5 th 2005
The Pablo Gil Venezuelan Jazz Quintet at the Bolívar Hall

7:30. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
Free entrance
booking necessary
020 7388 5788
Bolívar Hall of the Embassy of Venezuela
54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL

Pablo Gil studied flute and saxophone in Venezuela, France and the USA. He obtained the gold medal in saxophone at the Conservatoire National de Paris, the Premier Prix de Saxophone de la Vîlle de Paris and an MA in Jazz Performance at the University of New York. Gil has recorded with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Chico O'Farrill Big Band, John Benítez, Steve Turre, Brian Lynch, Ron Carter, Dan Carrillo, "Patato" Valdés, Héctor Martignon, Juan Pablo Torres, "Tata" Guines, "Changuito" Chocolate Armenteros, "Anga" Díaz, Camilo Azuquita, Herve Selling, François Jenny Clark, Mario Rivera, Papo Vázquez, Michael Mossman, Soledad Bravo, Andrés Briceño, Julio Mendoza, Grupo Cimarrón, Leo Blanco, Victor Mestas, Orlando Poleo y su Orquesta Chaworo, among others. Gil has participated in festivals at the French Cultural Centre of Abidjan; Birdland, Knitting Factory, Studio 54 in New York, BarranquiJazz Festival 1999, Barraquilla; Ronnie Scott's and Jazz Café, London; World Exhibition 1998, Lisbon; Marciac and Vaness Jazz Festivals, 1998; Jazz Festival of Boudroum, Turkey; and St. Louis Jazz Festival '97 in Senegal. Solo discography: Major Delights, Musical Minds 2002, Símbolos, Latin World 2004

Roberto Koch, born in Caracas in 1974, is one of the country's most versatile performers of the bass and double bass. His interests range from Venezuelan colonial and traditional music to salsa, jazz, flamenco and Latin American music. His traditional music career began as bass of the Grupo Onkora, sharing the stage with the likes of Chick Corea and Gary Burton in 1996. He has participated in the recording of Onkora´s "Con el Tiempo" , Cecilia Todd's "Canciones de Henry Martínez" and Simón Díaz's "Tangos". Koch has performed with Gualberto Ibarreto, Francisco Pacheco, Saúl Vera, Huáscar Barradas and Cheo Hurtado. With salsa singers Servando y Florentino he toured Perú, Curazao, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and the Canary Islands. He has also participated in Latin jazz shows with Orlando Poleo, Alfredo Naranjo and Andrés Briceño with whom he travelled to Puerto Rico in 2003 to the "IX Festival Internacional de la Percusión". He has accompanied international singers like the Argentinian María Marta Serra Lima, and the Mexican David Haro. In Venezuela's Latin Jazz scene, Koch has been associated with Aquiles Báez ("Reflejando el Dorado"), Pablo Gil ("Major Delights"), Bernardo Padrón ("Sea Dance"), Laurent Lécuyer, Andrés Briceño, Alfredo Naranjo, Junior Romero, Nené Quintero, Joel Pibo Márquez and Roberto Girón. He has also played with international jazz artists such as Steve Khan, Mario Canonge and Luis Perdomo.

Alfio Origlio is an eclectic pianist whose interests, in spite of his love for the jazz of Charlie Mingus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis, range widely from French composers of the beginning of the Twentieth Century to French song, acid jazz and funk music. He studied classical piano at the Conservatoires of Grenoble and Annecy and after that learnt jazz and contemporary music by himself and under Bernard Maury, Martial Solal and Richie Berach. For more than fifteen years, Origilio has collaborated with renowned artists and participated in the festivals of The Hague, Montréal, Montreux, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Hambourg, Santo Domingo and Vienna. He has been awarded prizes at the festivals of Vienna and Paris La Défense. Origlio has toured internationally with Salif Keita, Henri Salvador and Marcia Maria. He has also played in the Paris Jazz Big Band, with the arranger Michel Colombier, Yvan Julien, Les Garçons Faciles, Le Quintet à Vent de Marseille and Le Trio Dominique Di Piazza, avec Xavier Sanchez.. In 2002, in cooperation with Richard Galliano and within Le Quartet Alfio Origlio, he recorded the album of the musical " Délit d'Ivresse ". Discography in Cristal Records, 2000:Passeggiata, with Benoît Dimier-Vallet et Xavier Sanchez and Ricordo, avec André Ceccarelli et Remy Vignolo.

Laurent Robin, was born in Fontainebleau in 1967 and there from the age of 13 he sutdied the battery. In 1988 he graduated with Honours at the P.I.T.of Los Angeles. After his return, he became a member of the Tams-Tams d'Europe with Francis Lassus, André Ceccarelli, François Laizeau and Paco Sery. Robin has played with several musicians and ensembles of the French Jazz scene: Manuel Rocheman, Eric Séva, Didier et Francis Lockwood, Lionel Belmondo. In 1994, he accompanied the cello player Debora Seffer at the Festival of Montreal and "jammed" with Michel Petrucciani and Birelli Lagrène at the Festival of Nice. From 1995 he was part of the company Lubat and performed in several jazz festivals, that of Berlin and St Louis du Sénégal, among others. En 1996, he participated in the recording of the album

"Trouble Fête" by Arthur Het. That same year he was awarded the 2nd Prize of the Concours de Jazz de la Défense in Paris. From 1999, Robin tours regularly with the Michel Portal Quintet. He has participated in the new CAM album "Soulshine".