Join us on Friday, October 21st at 5:00 PM CDT for Argentina Night at the New Orleans Jazz Museum: Conexión Cultural presents Oscar Linero

Argentinian drummer and singer Oscar Linero will perform a two-hour set.

This program takes place inside our third-floor Performance Center, listening room. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.

Oscar Linero

Oscar Linero, drummer and jazz singer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 12, 1942, into a working middle-class family. He studied until university, leaving in 1st year of Law to undertake a career as a professional musician. He studied at the Teatro Colón Drum School, reaching the degree of Master Instructor. He then continued privately with the masters Pugliano, Jacobson, and Astutti. He joined several traditional Jazz bands; The San Francisco Stompers, in 1958, the Buenos Aires Jazz Band, the orchestras of Alberto Mizrahi, Bubby Lavecchia, Dave Washington, Oscar Alemán, Panchito Nolé, and the permanent orchestra of Canal 9 TV. He was a member of the Fénix Jazz Band, with which he toured the United States twice. He performed at the Connecticut Jazz Festival, where he received the Honor Sticks for his performance in 1992, and in 1993, he performed with the same band at the Sacramento Jazz Festival.

In 1994 and 1995, he won A.C.E. Awarded by the specialized press for the best Jazz recording. In 1995, he won the KONEX award for the best band of the decade with that band. In 1997 and 1998, he joined the Creole Jazz Band Argentina, completing 14 years of uninterrupted performance at the legendary Café Tortoni, where he also performed with the trio led by pianist Manuel Fraga. He also led his own Dixieland band; Las Rats Paseanderas (The Muskrat Ramblers), at the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires. There he also led a Swing quartet, Los 4 Puntos, dedicated to the style of Benny Goodman. There are innumerable record songs that he has made; suffice it to say that he was a professor at the University of Flores, UFLO, where he recorded more than 60 CDs. Currently, at 80 years of age, he continues his work with the Creole Jazz Band, as well as his work as a teacher, giving private classes to professionals of the instrument.

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