Jazz drummer and percussionist Ramón López (1961, Alicante) has played with many artists, including his own Ramon Lopez Flowers, as well as Denis Colin, Stan Kenton, Orchestre National de Jazz, Ivo Perelman, Christine Wodrascka, Paul Rogers, Harri Sjöström.



Ramón López began drumming as an autodidact in the middle of the Seventies. In 1980, he attends a concert solo of max Roach which influences his approach of the music definitively.



López forms part of local groups and decides to settle in Paris in January 1985 in order to supplement his formation and to be devoted fully to the music.



Ramón López becomes professor of drums and percussion at the Institute for Artistic and Cultural Perception of Alan Silva, former double bass player of Cecil Taylor, and integrates little by little the French experimental scene.



At the same time, he is interested in the Indian music and begins the study of counted with Krishna Govinda K.C. He is currently the pupil of Subhankar Banerjee, while giving course of Indian music to the Higher National Academy of Music of Paris.



The first disc with his name, "Eleven Drums Songs", is published by the British label Leo, for which it records since 1997. This label is specialized in the free jazz and the impromptu music. In more of the jazz and Indian music, another kind attracts Lopez: flamenco.



In this style of music, Ramón López collaborates with Carmen Linares, Esperanza Fernández, Inés Bacán, Gerardo Núñez, Rafael de Utrera, Chano Domínguez, etc.



His projects always are of the takings risk. One can quote, for example, his dedication to reinterpret songs of the Spanish Civil war in 2001 or his duets in homages to Roland Kirk in 2002. He also cultivated the formula of the duet with the pianist Christine Wodrascka.



Between 1997 and 2000, Ramón López was percussionist in the prestigious ONJ (National Orchestra of Jazz), directed by Didier Levallet, who mixes the orchestral language with the most innovating tendencies of this kind.



Ramón López has recorded and performed with Beñat Achiary, Majid Bekkas, Anthony Coleman, Agustí Fernández, Glenn Ferris, Barry Guy, Charles Gayle, Howard Johnson, Hans Koch, Daunik Lazro, Jeanne Lee, Thierry Madiot, Roscoe Mitchell, Joe Morris, Ivo Perelman, Enrico Rava, Paul Rogers, Louis Sclavis, Alain Silva, archie Shepp, John Surman, Claude Tchamitchian, Mal Waldron, Christine Wodrascka and other protagonists of the avant-garde jazz, occurring in concerts and festivals throughout the world.



Ramón López is an atypical percussionnist. One can, indeed, appreciate in his music the knowledge of a great number of traditions. Also, his affinities and interests lead it to collaborate with plastic artists, actors and choreographers. Ramón López is, at the present time, one of the European artists most respected in the field of the contemporary jazz and the impromptu music.