Justo thoroughly engages his listeners with rhythmic, call-and-response interludes. He also played in the group Koinonia with guests including Machito, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader and Poncho Sánchez. While touring with Mongo, Justo met Roy Ayers, a powerful entertainer, who asked him to record on the first of many albums: “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” which would achieve gold record status, and whose albums are the most sampled to this day by many notable Hip Hop artists. A multi-instrumentalist of the highest caliber, Almario has mastered the soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet and flute. It was during his years of studying at Berklee that Justo was discovered by Mongo Santamaria, who invited him to join his band.
A few years later Justo visited San Antonio Texas, where he met Jazz Pianist/Educator Jorge Martinez Zapata who encouraged him to apply for a scholarship to Berklee College of Music, which he was awarded. At age 16, he was recruited by Composer/Arranger Jose Madrid to travel to the US with the band Cumbia Colombia to showcase special arrangements of Colombia’s Folk Music. Al Mckibbon, Master P, Bebe Winans, Queen Latifah, Charles Mingus, Chaka Khan, Linda Rondstadt, Herb Alpert, Bobby Shew, John Heard, Lorca Hart, Billy Higgins, “Jose Rizo’s Jazz on the Latin Side All-Stars,” and many others. Almario has performed with Patrice Rushen’s Grammy Awards Orchestra, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Ayers, Kenny Burrell, George Duke, Tito Puente, Machito, Dave Grusin, Ndugu Chancler, Alex Acuna, Abraham Laboriel, TOLU, Donald Vega, Harold Land Jr. Almario studied at the prestigious Berklee School of Music before a stint with Mongo Santamaria as the band’s musical director.
Murray has been a member of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Satori Quartet.Ī native of Colombia, reedman, clinician, composer and arranger, Justo Almario has fused Latin, Afro-Cuban, South American, funk and jazz genres into his own humble offering. with Love" that won the 1991 Grammy for Album of the Year. He played violin on “Lush Life” with singer Natalie Cole from the album "Unforgettable. Murray is a concertmaster, conductor, orchestral contractor and violinist who has recorded with jazz musicians John Coltrane, Ronnie Laws, Alice Coltrane, Sergio Mendes, George Duke, Stanley Clark, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Haden, Lalo Schifrin, Lee Ritenour, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carl Saunders and many others.
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