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Also known as Juan Bautista Alegre y Hernaez, Johnny

Jazz guitarist and composer from the Philippines

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Philippines
Active from
1955-06-04
jazz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
202
Total plays
1,455

Tags

worldjazzOPMFilipinophilippines

Guitarist Juan B.H. Alegre III, aka Johnny Alegre (b. June 4, 1955), attended the University of the Philippines College of Music in the latter 1970s, where he studied composition and became a founding member of the U.P. Jazz Ensemble. He studied with the jazz educator, Dr. Joseph Howard, and participated in creative workshops conducted by musicologist-composer Erhard Karkoshka, guitarist Ike Isaacs and composer-scholar Chou Wen-chung. Alegre was involved in scores of bands and studio recording

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Quotes

  • One of my fondest childhood recollections is spinning 7” vinyl records on my plastic turntable, an RCA 45-EY. Becoming a composer-musician and recording artist was a natural recourse and fruition.
  • I was stuck somewhere between originality and no gigs. My own colleagues called me the conceptualist, the maverick with the only too occasional stadium concert.
  • I was just a kid inventing my own guitar chords because I did not have a teacher. Whatever sounded good to me was effectively correct. There were no rules.
  • As one who wrote interesting stories — whimsical stories, perhaps — and who drew whimsical maps and landscapes across a long canvas. Is this real enough? I also wish to be remembered as a Filipino, most of all.

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