GARY SARACHO
Fusion • United States
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Born 1949 in Los Angeles, CA
In 1973, Garrett Saracho was a promising, up-and-coming Chicano jazz musician from Los Angeles having just released his hotly-tipped debut album, En Medio (as Gary Saracho) on Impulse! Records, representing what the New York Times called the label’s “West Coast contingent.”
Despite receiving a five-star review from DownBeat magazine, the authority on all things jazz, which led to friend Herbie Hancock calling and congratulating him on the perfect review, praise from Wayne Shorter, and interest from radio stations, a cosmic confluence of unfortunate events – an oil embargo in the Middle East, changing label leadership, slashed budgets – led to the record not receiving the promotion and ultimately not gaining the traction it so deserved at the time.
Disappointed and disillusioned, the composer and keyboardist, one of the most exciting young musicians in L.A.’s fertile jazz underground, stepped away from music and left his Fender Rhodes behind
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