from a review of their first ever concert by Franck Bergerot :

......, and I come to the trio of pianist Angelica Sanchez, double bassist Barry Guy and drummer Ramon Lopez. Initially, it was an idea from Ramon Lopez who wanted to bring them together. The double bass player and drummer have known each other for twenty years, notably in pianist Agusti Fernandez's Aurora trio. Ramon Lopez has known Angelica Sanchez since she invited him to one of his residencies in Manhattan. The trio was scheduled for the 2020 edition of Jazzdor, but was twice cancelled due to Covid. And here it is at last. And it's been three days since I met Ramon Lopez in Strasbourg. He is also a painter, and has left in a Strasbourg car park, loaded on the roof of his car, the canvases he has just exhibited in Austria and which he is bringing back to the Perche where he lives. And he's hungry, hungry for music, for this trio he's been waiting for for four years. And when you see the three of them on stage, you can immediately see that it's a shared hunger.....

Biographies

ANGELICA SANCHEZ

Pianist/Composer/Educator Angelica Sanchez moved to New York from Arizona in 1994. Since moving to the East Coast Sanchez has collaborated with such notable artists as Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Richard Davis, Jamaladeen Tacuma, Nicole Mitchell, Rob Mazurek, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, Ben Monder amongst others. Sanchez leads numerous groups, the most recent being her Trio which features Michael Formanek and Billy Hart.

Her music has been recognized in national and international publications including Jazz Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune amongst others. She was also the 2008 recipient of a French/American Chamber Music America grant, the 2011 Rockefeller Brothers Pocantico artist residency, and the 2021 Civitella Fellowship, Italy.

Sanchez’s debut solo CD “A Little House” was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and her recording “Wires & Moss” featuring her Quintet was chosen as one of the best Releases of 2012 in “The New York City Jazz Record (formerly AllAboutJazz-New York).” Her recording “Twine Forest” a duo with Wadada Leo Smith received Honorable Mention as one of the best releases of 2013 in "The New York City Jazz Record." Her latest trio project “Float The Edge” features Michael Formanek and Tyshawn Sorey and has garnered wide critical acclaim. Her new piano duo"How to Turn the Moon," with Marilyn Crispell was voted as one of the top 50 best recordings in 2020, NPR critics poll. Her most recent recording "Sparkle Beings," was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top ten Jazz recordings of 2022.
Angelica Sanchez has a Masters Degree in Arranging from William Paterson University. She is currently on faculty at Bard College.


RAMON LOPEZ was born in Alicante, (Spain) August 6th, 1961. Drummer & Artist.

He began as a self-taught drummer in the mid-1970’s. Witnessing a Max Roach solo concert in 1980 was a turning point that fundamentally changed his understanding of music. He was part of local groups until he decided to move to Paris in January 1985 and became increasingly involved in the French jazz scene. At the same time, he developed an interest in Indian music and after many years of studying Tabla in France and in India, he teaches Indian Music himself with Patrick Moutal at the Paris Conservatory CNSMDP (1994-2001).

His first recording as a leader, a drums solo album, was released in 1997 on the British label Leo Records. His musical endeavours have always been challenging, his interpretation of Songs of the Spanish Civil War (2001), his duos dedicated to Roland Kirk (2002) or his « Freedom Now Sextet » in 2010 with Herb Robertson, Ivo Perelman, Joe Morris, Agustí Fernández and Barry Guy. From 1997 to 2000 he was the drummer in the renowned French « Orchestre National de Jazz » under the direction of Didier Levallet.

Among many others, Lopez has worked with Rashied Ali, Jim Baker, Conny Bauer, Majid Bekkas, Samuel Blaser, Anthony Coleman, Andrew Cyrille, Hamid Drake, Peter Evans, Agustí Fernández, Glenn Ferris, Joe Fonda, Sonny Fortune, Georges Garzone, Barry Guy, Charles Gayle, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Daniel Humair, Howard Johnson, Aly Keita, Joachim Kühn, Joelle Leandre, Jeanne Lee, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Joe Morris, Ivo Perelman, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Dave Rempis, Paul Rogers, Louis Sclavis, Alain Silva, Archie Shepp, John Surman, Mal Waldron, Nils Wogram and other remarkable contemporary jazz musicians, performing in concerts and festivals around the world.

Ramon Lopez is an un-typical percussionist. He is a musician who has mastered a number of different musical traditions. He has recorded a hundred albums and he is currently one of the most respected European musicians in the area of contemporary jazz and improvised music.
Named "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Government in 2008, Ramon Lopez was promoted to the rank of « Officier des Arts et des Lettres" in 2023.

Jorge Garcia, Institut Valencià de Cultura.



BARRY GUY is an innovative bass player and composer whose creative diversity in the fields of jazz improvisation, chamber and orchestral performance and solo recitals is the outcome both of an unusually varied training and a zest for experimentation, underpinned by a dedication to the double bass and the ideal of musical communication. He is founder and Artistic Director of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the BGNO (Barry Guy New Orchestra) for which he has written several extended works. In 2014 he founded the “Blue Shroud Band” to perform his composition “The Blue Shroud” based on Picasso’s painting “Guernica” with texts by the Irish poet Kerry Hardie. His concert works for chamber orchestras, chamber groups and soloists have been widely performed and his skillful and inventive writing has resulted in an exceptional series of compositions. In 2016 Barry Guy was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Middlesex , London and also appointed Honorary Professor to the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen. In 2019 he completed a commission for the KRONOS String Quartet as part of their series “50 for the Future”. Barry Guy continues to give solo recitals throughout Europe as well as continuing associations with colleagues involved in improvised, baroque and contemporary music. His main ensembles are the Homburger/Guy duo, the Trio with Torben Snekkestad and Agusti Fernandez, “Acanthis” Trio with Lucas Niggli and Maya Homburger, the Duo with Jordina Milla, the Parker/Guy/Lytton trio, Free Radicals with Agustí Fernández and Peter Evans, the trio with Agusti Fernandez and Zlatko Kaucic, the trio with Angelica Sanchez and Ramon Lopez and the longstanding trio with Marilyn Crispell and Paul Lytton.