La Plaza @ Digital Village | Treasures from the Vault | Jazz Across the Américas: Colombia & Perú

Описание: Tonight, we look back the memorable performance originally presented as part of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance’s Performance Series in February of 2014, "Jazz Across the Américas: Colombia and Perú”

This show offers highlights from a program that focuses on the expansion of the LatinX presence in our country with the wave of artists from Central and South America sharing their music, while contributing their flavor, character, and creativity to our collective culture. For centuries cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and other regions of the world have melded with the indigenous traditions of South America. The result, particularly in terms of music, is the presence of a wealth of diverse styles, many of them distinct hybrids that exist nowhere else.

Jazz Across the Americas represents our ongoing commitment to infuse the sounds of all the Americas into our palette. The rhythms of Colombia and Perú, the song forms and styles all flow effortlessly into the future of this ever-evolving love affair we call jazz. An art form that is only truly "American" when we accept the notion that we are all part of a cultural Kente cloth that stretches from Africa, touching Lima, Cali, New Orleans and all people with adventurous souls and open minds.

Please join with us in revisiting this memorable evening.

Performing Artists

Special Guests Artists and Composers: Gregory Uribe, Pablo Mayor, Laura Andrea Leguia, Ivonne Paredes

Featuring Freddy “Huevito” Lobatón, Yuri Yuárez, Marcelo Woloski, Nestor Emiro Gomez Gutierrez

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Arturo O’Farrill, piano and Musical Director

Saxophones
Bobby Porcelli/alto, David DeJesus/alto, Ivan Renta/tenor, Peter Brainin/tenor, Jason Marshall/baritone

Trumpets
Seneca Black, Jim Seeley, John Bailey, Andy Gravish

Trombones
Tokunori Kajiwara, Rafi Malkiel, Frank Cohen, Earl McIntyre, bass

Rhythm
Gregg August/bass, Vince Cherico/drums, Tony Rosa/congas, Carly Maldonado/bongos & percussion

Performance Program
“Suite Colombia”, composed and arranged by Gregorio Uribe
“Junio y Garúa”, composed and arranged by Laura Andrea Leguía
“Primeros Pasos” (“First Steps”), composed and arranged by Ivonne Paredes
“Mercado en Domingo”, composed and arranged by Pablo Mayor

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