Los Jairas
Los Jairas are a folk music band from Bolivia. They have worked with Los Condores. Their work features the charango, a stringed instrument from Bolivia.[1]
They were formed in 1965 by Edgar 'Yayo' Jofré, who brought the group together to play at Pena Naira.[2]:275
One of the early members was Gilbert Favre, founder of the folklore cabaret La Pena Naira in La Paz .
Members of the band:
- Ernesto Cavour - charango
- Edgar Joffré - voice, drums, zampoña
- Julio Godoy
- Gilbert Favre - quena
Favre was a Swiss jazz player who played the quena with great skill and sensitivity.
On several of their albums, they featured Alfredo Dominguez, one of the finest Bolivian guitar players who wrote and composed many songs. His appearance on the album Grito de Bolivia was the highlights of Los Jairas' research into neo-folklore.
World Music wrote that
Around 1965 an influential - and indeed definitive - musical model for the Andes emerged with Los Jairas.... The idea was to form a quartet of charango (Bolivian mandolin), guitar, quena and bombo (drum): instruments that had never been played together before, having had their own seasons in the mountain villages. The quartet arranged the music to show off each of the instruments' solo and group possibilities.... they forged a new melodic and rhythmic style...[2]:275
Partial discography
- Los Jairas
- Edgar Joffre - Los Jairas
- Grito de Bolivia- Los Jairas (1967)
- Sempre con...Los Jairas (1969)
- Edgar "Yayo" Joffre y Los Jairas (1969)
- La Flute Des Andes (1970)
- Lo Mejor de los Jairas (1974)
- Los Jairas en vivo (1976)
- Canto a la viva (1978)
- Al Pueblo de mis Ancestros (1992)
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
- 1 2 Broughton, Simon; Ellington, Mark; Trillo, Richard; Duane, Orla; McConnachie, James; Dowell, Vanessa, eds. (1999). World music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 9781858286365.
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