Jaime Delgado Aparicio Porta (born 1943) was a Peruvian jazz pianist, arranger, and conductor from Lima. He began studying classical piano at age five and won the national Inter Piano competition at fifteen. Delgado Aparicio earned a degree from Westlake College of Modern Music in 1961 and studied composition and conducting at Berklee College of Music in 1962, where he befriended Keith Jarrett. Delgado Aparicio released the albums Jazz (1964) and Jam Sessions Vol. 1 (1965). In 1968, he composed the soundtrack for the film El Embajador Y Yo. He became the music director for Sono Radio in 1970, signing the bands Black Sugar and Traffic Sound. Delgado Aparicio served as the director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Perú, where he premiered his jazz-symphonic work Suite Evocación. He founded the Orquesta Contemporánea and released a live album with the group in 1976. Delgado Aparicio died in Lima on March 28, 1983.
