Diego Maroto

Mexican saxohponist Diego Maroto started taking private lessons with Larry Roussell (EU) and Alfonso Martínez (Mexico) in 1985. In 1988 he started a master degree at the Escuela Superior de Música (INBA), where he was taught improvisation, arrangement and composition by Francisco Tellez. He then continued with private lessons from Danny Matusack (New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass.) and from Darryl Winsman (L.A.). In 1991, Diego became an active member of IAJE (International Association of Jazz Educators) and participated during three consecutive years in IAJE conventions in Miami, San Antonio and Boston. He studied and developed afro-american music language with many teachers and musicians from all over the world, such as David Liebman Ernie Watts, Ran Blake (With whom he studied a course in specialized ear training), among others. Along with his rising carrier as an important representative of jazz in Mexico, Diego has performed with great success on some of the most distinguished venues in Mexico and abroad with some of the most outstanding latin american artists, comprising styles that range from rock, pop and Afroantillian music. Starting the year 2004, Diego recorded his first solo album named MUNDO PARALELO, on November that same year, diego and his sextet performed at Dizzy's Club at the Lincoln Center in New York City daily during one week where they shared the stage with Antonio Sánchez and other important jazz players of the New York Scene. In 2005 a new formation is born, a trio with Gabriel Puentes on drums and Jorge Luri Molina on bass, this trio has perforned in several festivals in venues like Palacio de Bellas Artes in 2006. A couple of years later this same trio performed at the Teatro de la Ciudad where they shared the stage with George Duke and Stanley Clark. As an educator, Diego has given lessons, clinics and seminars in important schools and institutions in Mexico and abroad, one of his most outstanding works was the one done in 2008, a seminar produced by Tonica in Guadalajara, Jal. alongside sax player Donny McCasslin. Currently, he put out an album called DIEGO MAROTO ASIAN TRIO, recorded live on April 2013 at the jazz club "No Black Tie" Kuala Lumpur, Malasya. On this same year Diego has toured Asia twice performing with his several projects at Java Jazz Festival (Indonesia), Mosaic music festival (Singapore), Sweet Basil (Japan), Ubud Village Jazz Festival, (Indonesia) and Sendai Jazz Festival (Japan).