Jaime Delgado Aparicio

Peruvian Jazz pianist, composer, arranger and orchestra leader
He was born on October 25, 1943. His father was a politician who allowed and financed his several trips to the US and his studies as a young musician at , where he played with and befriended musicians such as . After finishing his studies he moved back to Peru where he formed various jazz ensembles, wrote a score and performed with international musicians passing through Lima. In 1970 he got signed by to work as their music director. In the following year he worked on various productions and formed his Orquesta Contemporánea to mix Jazz, Soul, Funk and Latin with new arrangements and a big orchestra with over 40 musicians. The ensemble also included musicians of or other jazz greats such as or . He continued to work on various projects and collaborations to set the base for a whole new generation of Peruvian jazz musicians until his sudden death at the age of only 40 years old in March 1983.