Interview With Jaime Ig Ribas
Have you always been interested in music? What is your story and how did you start making music?
I started my studies at the conservatory school at the age of 12, studying the primary cycle of music, and later I started at a school for instrumentalists, the school for the orchestra and band of musicians in my town in Inca-Mallorca, where I spent about 5 years playing in the band and attending my first years of learning, both in music theory and as an instrument under the academic regime of the classical music conservatory of the Balearic Islands, a musical training that was taught at said school.
As a complement to my technique with the wind instrument, I began as a singer on the tenor string in a choir in the town of Inca, passing through various choral groups over the years, participating in numerous events of great works of the classical music, sacred music and also some modern works,.. over several years, where it is worth highlighting the interesting musical project in which I participated with a choir in Berlin, singing a great work on a big stage, the Requiem of Verdi, with the Berliner Symphoniker at the Berlin Theater, in April 2011.
In 2003 I began my studies as a professional instrumentalist in a branch of the l’Aula de Barcelona, a modern music school in Mallorca, obtaining the graduation from the Berklee College of Music.
What are you working on now? Any future releases we can look forward to?
I’m working in a new jazz Album called, SOME ENERGY BALANCE, and others Singles.
What Is Your Ultimate Goal In The Music Industry?
I’m working in a jazz band, and I would like to get make a direct concerts, and record my music with this jazz band.
What Has Been The Biggest Challenge In Your Career Thus Far?
In 2013, when I began my personal training stage, in which I came face to face and alone with the instrument and its true essence, its capacity, …, a cycle in which I began creating my own music, and where I have increased my mental capacity with the sound, the body and the instrument, improving my projection to the Tenor saxophone, perfecting the sound, effects of the instrument, …, the super highs and harmonics, …, the capacity for improvisation, and also to creating my own Jazz music project, A New Jazz.
How do you go about writing a song? Do you have a melody in your head and then write the other music for it or what’s Your typical songwriting process?
My technics, is investigate the many and infinites different scales and rhythmites, and start the confection of the music.
How do you feel the Internet has impacted the music business?
I’ll see in the future.
List some famous musicians currently on your playlist?
Miles Davis.
Hiram Bullock.
Marcus Miller.
Michel Brecker.
David Sanborn.
Eric Marienthal.
Chick Corea,…….. .
What Did You Do Before You Started Making Music?
I have been for several years with various modern music groups playing different groups and styles, such as Funky, Blues, Jazz and fusion music such as Flamenco Jazz and others, and I participated in numerous projects of important local conductors, as a saxophonist in the Philharmonic and Symphony orchestra of classical and modern music.
Would you have any advice for young people wanting to follow in your footsteps?
Just only one, study and practice very much.
Links to Where Your Music Can be Purchased