Pocho Lapouble was an Argentine jazz drummer, composer and arranger.

Carlos Alberto Pocho Lapouble was born in La Plata

La Plata

La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the , the city proper has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants....

. He and a group of local teens, including pianists Alberto Favero and Caco Álvarez, bassist Guri Baccaro, and trombonist Vicente Izzi, formed the La Plata Contemporary Jazz Group in 1959, performing together until 1968, and appearing in numerous university concerts and radio shows. He formed a trio with Favero and bassist Adalberto Cevasco, with whom he appeared in the contemporary music program at the Torcuato di Tella Institute

Torcuato di Tella Institute

The Torcuato di Tella Institute is a non-profit foundation organized for the promotion of Argentine culture.-Overview:The di Tella Foundation and its institute were created on July 22, 1958, the tenth anniversary of the death of industrialist and arts patron Torcuato di Tella...

 in 1971, and in 1972 released his first album, Quinteplus, for EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

.

Lapouble became a prominent arranger and musician in the theatre, notably for Norma Aleandro

Norma Aleandro

Norma Aleandro Robledo is an Argentine actress and screenwriter, born in Buenos Aires to Pedro Aleandro and María Luisa Robledo, both actors. Her sister, María Vaner, was a famous actress in Argentina.- Life and career :...

, Inda Ledesma

Inda Ledesma

Inda Ledesma was an Argentine stage, television, and cinema actress who also gained prominence as a theatre director and instructor.-Life and work:...

, Lito Cruz

Lito Cruz

Lito Cruz is a prominent Argentine stage director and motion picture actor.-Life and work:Lito was born Oscar Alberto Cruz in the working-class La Plata suburb of Berisso in 1941, and began performing in local theatres at the age of 15. Graduating from a La Plata secondary school, he continued to...

, and Juan Carlos Gené. He joined pop singer Palito Ortega

Palito Ortega

Ramón Bautista Ortega Argentine singer and actor, better known as Palito Ortega. Ortega reached international fame, particularly in Latin America and Spain, during the 1960s, when Rock and Roll music was popularized among teenagers in the region.- Youth :Ortega was born to a very poor family in...

 in 1972 as lead arranger, and began his work in the cinema of Argentina

Cinema of Argentina

The cinema of Argentina has a tradition dating back to the late nineteenth century, and continues to play a role in the culture of Argentina....

 in 1976 for Ortega as music director in the comedy production, Dos locos en el aire

Dos locos en el aire

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. He joined Cevasco in experimental pianist Gustavo Kerestesachi's jazz trio in 1974, and was honored at the 4th International Festival of Jazz Composers in Monaco

Monaco

Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...

, in 1978. Lapouble first composed for film in Alejandro Azzano's 1981 tragedy, Venido a menos. Among his many other Argentine credits include arrangements for Sandro

Sandro de América

Roberto Julio Sánchez , better known by his artist names Sandro/Sandro de América , Gitano , and the Argentine Elvis, was an Argentine singer and actor.-Biography:...

, Leonardo Favio

Leonardo Favio

Leonardo Favio is an Argentine singer, actor, film director and screenwriter...

, Raúl Lavié

Raúl Lavié

Raúl Lavié is an Argentine entertainer prominent in the Tango genre.-Life and work:Raúl Alberto Peralta was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1937. He first sang on a local radio station in 1955 and was subsequently invited to perform on Radio Belgrano and Radio El Mundo in Buenos Aires...

, Nacha Guevara

Nacha Guevara

Nacha Guevara is an Argentine singer and actress from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer becoming a symbol in the song of protest movement around 1968 in the avant-garde Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, the...

, Susana Giménez

Susana Giménez

Susana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host....

, and Antonio Gasalla

Antonio Gasalla

Antonio Gasalla is a well-known Argentine actor, comedian, and theatre director.-Life and work:Antonio Gasalla was born in Ramos Mejía, a western suburb of Buenos Aires, in 1941...

, as well as numerous local television commercials, including one in which Amelita Baltar

Amelita Baltar

María Amelia Baltar, known as Amelita Baltar is an Argentine tango singer who became famous in the early 1970s as a vocalist for composers and bandoneónists Ástor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer...

, a well-known tango vocalist, began her own career.

He later joined renowned bandoneonist and nuevo tango

Nuevo tango

Tango Nuevo - either a form of music in which new elements are incorporated into traditional Argentine tango, or an evolution of tango dance that began to develop in the 1980s...

 composer Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...

 in his sextet, and later worked with Jorge Anders, Rodolfo Mederos

Rodolfo Mederos

Rodolfo Mederos is an Argentine bandoneonist, composer and arranger. He lived in Cuba and France; in Argentina, he founded the cult group Generación Cero.- Beginnings :...

, Dino Saluzzi

Dino Saluzzi

Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...

, Roberto Pettinato

Roberto Pettinato

Roberto Pettinato is an Argentine musician, journalist and television presenter.Pettinato's father, Roberto Sr., was a high-ranking corrections officer in the administration of Juan Perón. When a coup deposed Perón in 1955, he was accused of being involved in political repression and was driven...

, and Karlheinz Miklin, among others. He was honored at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

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 in 1985, 1986, 1988, 1993, and 1995, as well as in numerous Argentine events. He was reunited with pianist Alberto Favero for numerous albums and tours, including a tribute to George Gershwin

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

 (1993), Stella by Starlight

Stella By Starlight

"Stella by Starlight" is a jazz standard written by Victor Young and featured in The Uninvited, a 1944 film released by Paramount Pictures. Originally played in the film as an instrumental theme song without lyrics, it was turned over to Ned Washington, who wrote the lyrics for it in 1946...

(1996), and their version of Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...

(2002). The Argentine Society of Composers (SADAIC), awarded his tango piece, Palermo Viejo, a grand prize in 1998. His film score for Juan José Jusid

Juan José Jusid

Juan José Jusid is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started his professional career as an actor, Puppeteer and stage photographer in the 1960s then switched to film studies at the Association of Short Film Directors.He turned director and screenwriter in 1968 and has directed...

's romantic comedy ¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida que no te puedo encontrar?

¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida que no te puedo encontrar?

¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida que no te puedo encontrar? is a 1992 Argentine drama film directed by Juan José Jusid and co-written with Ana María Shua...

(1992) ended his film collaborations, though he made a cameo appearance as himself in Lucho Bender's Felicidades, in 2000.

Lapouble taught in his discipline from 2002 onwards in the Buenos Aires suburb of Monte Grande

Esteban Echeverría Partido

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, and headed the jazz program at the Argentine Society of Music Education (SADEM) from 2004. On May 15, 2009, however, the noted jazz drummer, composer and instructor suffered a stroke, and he died in an Adrogué

Adrogué

Adrogué is a city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, located 23 km south of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of the Almirante Brown Partido ....

clinic at age 67.