Matias Pizarro

"Hey, there's this new guy around that plays like Herbie Hancock!!". When Chilean pianist Matías Pizarro arrived in Argentina in 1973 fleeing Pinochet's dictatorship, word spread like wildfire in the local jazz scene. In the two short years that Pizarro spent in Buenos Aires, he became one third of the groundbreaking Viejas Raíces project alongside local jazz heroes Jorge López Ruiz and Pocho Lapouble, recorded with famed Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and released his own solo album, Pelo de Rata ("Rat's hair"), a unique gem of Latin American jazz fusion. Matías finally settled in Paris in 1977, and his piano hasn't stopped playing; look for his name in albums by legends like Kassav' or Henri Guédon.