Chano Domínguez

Spanish jazz musician

Born: 29 March 1960
Cádiz
Country: Spain
Record labels: Blue Note

Biography

Chano Domínguez is a jazz musician who plays piano. Chano Domínguez was born on 29 March 1960 in Cádiz. The music is usually filed under jazz and Latin jazz. Record labels: Blue Note. Honours include Premio Nacional de las Músicas Actuales (2020).

Chano Domínguez (born Sebastián Domínguez Lozano; 29 March 1960, in Cádiz, Spain) is a Spanish Latin jazz, post bop and flamenco pianist. Dominguez has released over 20 albums as a bandleader, and collaborated extensively with other jazz artists including Paquito D’Rivera, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Joe Lovano, Chucho Valdés, Martirio, and Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, He performs his own original compositions, as well as the music of Harold Arlen, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and the Spanish classical composer Joaquín Rodrigo. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 for his album Flamenco Sketches on the Blue Note label. Domínguez began his career in the progressive rock group CAI before moving on to jazz. They recorded three LPs from 1978 to 1980, Mas Alla de Nuestras Mentes Diminutas, Noche Abierta and Cancion de Primavera for the Columbia label.

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