Биография

La Marraqueta is a Chilean jazz fusion band formed in Santiago, with a mixture of folk music and Mapuche music, as well as rock. What they have called as Jazz Fusion Criollo (chilean creole jazz fusion). It started in the year 1992 from the definitive extinction of Cometa, a jazz band that had as members three of the current members of this band: Andrés Pollak (piano and keyboards), Pablo Lecaros (electric and double bass) and Pedro Greene (drums and percussion). They were joined by guitarists Mauricio Rodríguez (1997-1999, 2005-present) and Jorge Díaz (2000-2004). Its existence has been one of the most valuable proposals in the history of chilean jazz, since it proposes the encounter between jazz improvisation and the concept of music with folkloric roots.