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Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
Mario Escudero
One of our projects for this week at the Fundacion is learning Panaderos Flamencos. I have always liked this piece, and we are about 2/3 done. It´s very easy to play...slow. If you have heard Paco play it then you know it is a test of picado at speed! It my understanding that Mario Escudero wrote this?
According to the album liner notes for Fantasia Flamenca de PdL, Panaderos Flamencos was written by Esteban Delgado. Paco wrote all the other ones on that album except for Mantilla de Feria, a cancion co-written by Delgado and F. Marafiot.
However, Mario Escudero did write one song on La Fabulosa Guitarra de PdL, a bulerias called Impetu. All the other ones on that disc were co-written by Paco and Jose Torregrosso, according to the liner notes.
Glad to be part of the mobile research team for our able foreign correspondent. :) Keep those reports coming! Cheers.
When you coming home man? I love that particular piece and I really like Escudero too. If you like Sabicas you'll enjoy Escudero. Not that they are the same but they come from the same school and often played together.
Might be worthwhile checking out following music if interested in traditional flamenco by Mario Escudero in addition to Ref (a).
Ref (a): Panaderos Flamencos, El Nino de Sanlucar (Esteban Delgado), Transcribed by Jerry Lodbill, Southwest Waterloo, Austin, 1977 (b): Flamenco Guitar, Mario Escudero, Transcribed by Joseph Trotter, Charles Hansen, New York, 1976 (c): Selected Solos for Guitar by Sabicas & Escudero, Charles Hansen, New York