Trumpeter returns for jazz concert
More and more Belizeans living abroad seem to be rediscovering their roots and returning home to make a contribution, whether in sports, business or the arts. Rolling into town this week from Chicago was accomplished trumpeter Luciano Rosado. News 5’s Jose Sanchez spoke to the master musician as he worked out at the House of Culture.
Luciano Rosado, Trumpet Player
“I was born on Bishop Street over there behind the Palace Theater. Just before my fifteenth birthday my family kidnapped me and took me to Chicago to live. The first thing I did when I got in school was run and ask for a trumpet cause as a kid in Belize, I used to watch trumpets and watch people play it and I envied them.”
Luciano Rosado has often returned to the jewel on holiday but this time he is here to conduct a week-long music clinic at the House of Culture starting March nineteenth. The peak of his visit will be a joint concert with the XL Jazz Quintet.
Luciano Rosado
“This visit is more to try and encourage music education than anything. All my visits to Belize, even when I’m on vacation with my family, is to try and encourage kids to play music. I want to bring as many musical instruments as I can to the country and not just leave it there, but encourage music teachers to start bands and things. I do the same thing in the States.”
To make this experience as beneficial as possible for music enthusiasts, Rosado brought along Russel Clark of Champagne, Illinois, who plays acoustic and electric bass.
Russel Clark, Bass Player
“I ended up in Belize by doing some jazz gigs with Luciano and it was just a really nice vibe to play together. And so just doing that and he had this thing coming up so he asked me if I’d like to come down and I said ‘Of course, love to.’
“I’ve been playing since I was fourteen. So I’ve been playing for about thirty years now. I heard some music on the radio and it was just like ‘Ah, I just love that.’ And so I went for it started pursuing it, learning how to make the sounds that I was hearing coming off the radio.”
Rosado fondly remembers the piece that has made the most impact on his fans.
Luciano Rosado
“Flintstones, the Flintstones theme. I played that in grade school once and they kids just loved it. They asked me to play it again, I was hoping to play other things, and I ended up playing it three times.”
(Rosado plays The Flintstones Theme, while Sanchez sings)
Luciano Rosado
“In terms of importance that’s what is most important, that I reach these kids and hopefully some of them will want to be musicians.”
Friday March twenty-third at the House of Culture, you can catch Rosado, Clark, the XL Jazz Quintet and perhaps a few guest artists at the concert. Reporting for News 5, Jose Sanchez.
Tickets for Blues at the House of Culture are twenty-five dollars for adults and ten for children. Adult admission includes a glass of wine and boca.
