Bio
20 years of career. Playing on the most famous stages around the world. Playing with incredible musicians. Playing his own music. Recording on more than 20 CD. 20 years of passion serving music.
Biographic Highlights
Nardy Castellini was born in Matanzas, Cuba. Land of afro-Cuban music.
He drops out from engineering school to study saxophone.
He graduates as a music professor and joins the Modern Music Orchestra of Mantanzas.
His career starts in early nineties with Talla Extra, accompanying Xiomara Laugart with Omar Sossa as the musical director.
In 1993 he joins the pianist Chucho Lopez with whom he toured in Canada.
In 1994 and 1995 he collaborates with Afrocuba and Klimax directed by Giraldo Piloto.
Starting in 1997 he joins the famous band Cubanismo in a 4 years world tour.
Early 2000 in collaboration with Dario Moreno he creates the jazz fusion band “Four Runners”. Their album won the Best Album at the Music of Andalusia Awards.
In 2002 he releases IDENTITY his first CD as a leader featuring Omar Sosa, Sherman Irby and Tata Güines. The CD makes the top 10 Latin jazz album of French Magazine Jazz Hot.
Between 2002 and 2010 he toured with Identity, played with the Blues Band of Granada and with Ignacio Nachito Herrera in a US Tour. In 2005 the Star Tribune of Minneapolis compares Nardy’ s tenor saxophone solo to Micheal Brecker.
In 2009 Nardy and DJ Toner co-created Domestic Jazz Collective a hip-hop, electro jazz project recording and performing together.
In 2010 he releases ORIGENES his second CD as a leader. The Album uncovers a new direction in Cuban jazz with ancestral Afro-Cuban rhythm with a jazz fusion.
Between 1991 and 2011, Nardy contributed to more than 20 recording.
In 2012 Nardy joined the World Tour of Rodrigo Y Gabriela and C.U.B.A in 46 concerts in 7 months including 3 major TV shows, amongst them Jay Leno.
Detailed Chronological Background
Costa Caliente
Cuban Tour 1988
Talla Extra y Xiomara Laugart
Cuban Tour 1989
World Tour 1989
Mexico Tour 1990
Spain Tour 1991
Spain and Venezuela Tour 1992
Jazz Band Bobby Carcacés:
Festival de Jazz Plaza 91 de la Habana
Grupo Pucho López:
World Tour 1992
Afrocuba
Cuban Tour 1994
Latin America Tour 1994
Ronnie’s Scott Jazz Club London
Klimax
World Tour 1995
Nice Jazz Festival 95
Montreux Jazz Festival 95
Jazz à Vienne 95
Son en Talla
World Tour 1996
La Estación
Granada Jazz Festival 97
Al Jaima
Morocco Tour 97
Nardy Castellini Quintet
Granada Jazz Festival 98
Cubanismo
World Tour 97
World Tour 98
World Tour 99
With Orlando Poleo
World Tour 2000
Blues Band of Granada
Spain Tour 2000
Spain Tour 2005
Four Runners
Spain Tour 2001
Nardy Castellini Quintet
Released CD “IDENTITY” 2001
Granada Jazz Festival 2001
Identity Spain Tour 2002, 2003
Identity Egypt Tour 2007
Nachito Herrera
USA Tour 2004
Nardy Castellini and Rasha
Egypt Tour 2007
Khartum, Sudan, 2008
Domestic Jazz Collective
Festival Cines del Sur Granada Domestic Jazz Collective Set
2008, 2009,2010
Discography
Talla Extra y Xiomara Laugart
Xiomara Laugart, 1989
Atrapando espacion, 1992
Afrocuba
Recroded in Argentina, 1994
Ecorded at Ronnie’s Scott Jazz Club London, 1994
Arcoiris, 1995
Cubanismo
Jesús Alemany, Featuring Alfredo Rodríguez 1995
Klímax
Mira si te gusta. 1995
Anacaona
1995
La Estación
La Estación Soul. 1997
Blues Band de Granada
Cuatro. Award best Jazz CD Música en Andalucía (Brass Session directed and arranged by Nardy Castellini) 1999
Graciela Jiménez
1999
José Parra
De Arena y Coral. 1999
Four Runners
Best Jazz and Blues CD at the
Música de Andalucía Award. Co-led by Nardy Castellini and Dario Moreno, 1999
Orlando Poleo
Lo Bueno de la Vida. 2000
Funkdatiòn
2001
Carmen Carmona
Brass Session directed and arranged by Nardy Castellini
2001
Nardy Castellini Quintet
Identity, 2002
Nachito Herrera
Bembé en mi Casa, FS. (Including c Nardy Castellini composition : Big News), 2004
La Blues Band de Granada
Knocking the Door 2004
Greg Byler and the Branded Souls
If I Should See Fire. 2005
Nardy Castellini Quintet
Origenes, 2010
