Jorge López Ruiz

Jorge López Ruiz was an Argentine double bassist, composer and arranger who died in 2018. His first album as leader, B.A. Jazz (VIK, 1961), featured Gato Barbieri. In 1967 he recorded El grito for CBS, an orchestral jazz suite made as a protest against military rule, which was banned and pulled from the shops. Jorge López Ruiz studied harmony and composition with Alberto Ginastera on Astor Piazzolla's advice, and worked as a musical director at CBS Argentina. He wrote Un hombre de Buenos Aires (1978) for the city's 400th anniversary, with Dino Saluzzi and Pablo Ziegler.