[1][2] Ángel Parra Trío consolidated itself as the first substantive project in the renovation of the Chilean jazz scene once the military regime collapsed and the mandatory silence ended.
The first stable formation of the Ángel Parra Trío was propitiated, precisely, with these sidemen from Los Tres, who took advantage of a break for the group due to the tour that its leader Álvaro Henríquez made in 1991 to Europe together with the theatre company Gran Circo Teatro.
This new formation recorded the albums Patana (1995) and Piscola standards (1996), alternating original music and pieces by classical composers, with a tendency towards swing and bop languages over the predominant fusion.
With both musicians specializing in these old Rhodes keyboard sounds, Hammond and Bonanza, the band began their foray into lounge music and psychedelic pop, especially when they added singer Julián Peña (ex Los Santos Dumont) to their staff.
It included some songs that Arriagada had transformed into hits in the '60s (in addition to the participation of Los Prisioneros' Jorge González), closing a period of great popular success and musical opening that meant the affection of an audience not exactly related to jazz.
Shortly after, the group worked with the same Valentín Trujillo, but added other heroes from the capital's bohemian era of the 1940s and 1950s, such as the saxophonist Mickey Mardones, the trumpeter Ricardo Barrios and the tumbador Adelqui Silva for a new chosen repertoire of the time and a revitalization of that sound in Espérame !!!