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NYU ALL UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA conducted by Bobby Sanabria
CELEBRATES THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH A LATIN JAZZ SPECTACULAR!!!
WORKS BY LEONARD BERNSTEIN, TITO PUENTE, EDDIE PALMIERI, ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ, JOAO DONATO, AND MORE AS WELL AS HOLIDAY CLASSICS PERFOMED IN A LATIN JAZZ WAY!
Multi-Grammy nominated NYU faculty member Bobby Sanabria will be conducting the NYU All University Jazz orchestra in a special Latin Jazz concert in celebration of the holiday season on December 10, 2019 at NYU’s Steinhart Hall.
“It’s been an exciting, fruitful semester here in my new position at NYU as the students of the All University Jazz Orchestra represent the full gamut of the diverse educational opportunities NYU has to offer. Students from the various departments, Jazz, Music Ed, and more, are part of this talented group and the concert will prove to be not only entertaining for the audience but will also be a showcase for these talented young artists who represent the future of the music as well as NYU’s commitment to cultural diversity.” – Bobby Sanabria
Under Maestro Sanabria’s baton the orchestra will be performing works by masters like LEONARD BERNSTEIN (One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story), TITO PUENTE (Elegua Changó, Mambo Diablo), EDDIE PALMIERI (Mi Congo), JOAO DONATO (Amazonas), ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ (La Vida Es Un Sueño) and more as well, as well as Christmas classic like Winter Wonderland, Carol of the Bells, and Jingle Bells all adapted to Afro-Latin rhythms!
The concert is FREE and open to the public and will occur on…
DECEMBER 10, 2019 at NYU at STEINHARDT HALL at 35 West 4th St. NYC AT 8PM
Fo further information or to contact Maestro Sanabria for press interviews you may contact…
Bobby Sanabria is an eight time Grammy-nominee as a leader. Known as a drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, documentary film producer, educator, activist, and bandleader, his versatility as both a drummer and percussionist, from small group to big band, has become legendary. A native son of the South Bronx born to Puerto Rican parents, he has performed and recorded with every major figure in the world of Latin jazz and salsa from Mario Bauzá, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaría, Dizzy Gillespie, Chico O’Farrill, Ray Barretto, Cándido, to Larry Harlow, Ruben Blades, Celia Cruz, and jazz luminaries as diverse as Henry Threadgill, Charles McPherson, Randy Brecker, Joe Chambers, Jean Lucien, The Mills Brothers, and others. DRUM! Magazine named him Percussionist of the Year (2005); he was named Percussionist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2011 and 2013. In 2006, he was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame. He was a recipient of the 2018 Jazz Education Network (JEN) LeJENS of Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as a musician and educator. In 2008 Congressman Dennis Kucinich honored his work as a musician and educator by reading his name into the Congressional Record and in 2018 the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus honored him as a musician, educator. Every single one of his big band recordings, seven in total, have been nominated for Grammys. His 2018 recording, ‘West Side Story Reimagined,’ reached #1 on the national Jazz Week radio charts, was nominated for a 2018 Grammy, and won the prestigious 2019 Record of The Year Award from the Jazz Journalists Association. Partial proceeds from sales of the recording go to the Jazz Foundation of America’s Puerto Rico Relief Fund for musicians. He is the Co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center and the forthcoming Bronx Music Hall. His lifetime dedication to spreading the history, culture, of jazz and Latin jazz to the general public as a performer, as well as educating a new generation of players, composers, arrangers, has no parallel. A member of Max Roach’s legendary M’BOOM percussion ensemble, he is on the faculty of the New School and NYU. He is also the on air host of the Latin Jazz Cruise on WBGO FM.
NYU ALL UNIVERSITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA conducted by Bobby Sanabria – photo by Michael Abramyan
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A live performance – with dancers – by Kiki Valera y Su Son Cubano featuring the title track of their album “Vivencias en Clave Cubana”.
Vivencias, written by Kiki Valera and Coco Freeman
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Kiki Valera is the oldest son of the famed La Familia Valera Miranda septet, a multi-generational traditional music group from Santiago de Cuba.
Kiki began in music on the tres as a child under the direction of his father Felix. He attended the prestigious Conservatorio Estaban Salas in Santiago de Cuba and was touring internationally since the age of 15.
Active since the 19th century, La Familia Valera Miranda has been instrumental in collecting and preserving the musical treasures of Oriente’s Sierra Maestra mountrains
Personnel:
Kiki Valera – director and cuatro
Coco Freeman – lead singer
Jose Luis Losada – guitar
Alain Garcia Bueno – coros
Angel Caballito Beltran – trumpet
Angel Beltran Contreras – trumpet
Adolfo Aguilera- bass
Emilio Rodriguez – congas
Carmen Rosa Alarcón – maracas
Ernesto Valera Alarcón – bongo
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The organization is called RitmaCuba.com and it’s headquartered in France, Pierrefitte to be exact, just north of Paris.
Their work focuses on Santiago de Cuba.
Over the years, they’ve assembled a treasure trove of Afro-Cuban music video and have been adding to their YouTube archive for ten years. Diving into it ought to keep you busy (and warm) all winter – and beyond.
Their complete video archive organized by category is here: Ritma Cuba
If you want to read the descriptions that accompany the videos (they’re all in French), you can use this instant translation service from Google. It’s pretty good for a machine translation and it’s free
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For the record, “Africa” is too hopelessly vague a word to be useful to describe reality.
This is clear when you think about how we conceive other continents. There is really no one “African” culture any more any more than there is one European or one Asian culture. There are dozens and, in Africa’s case, many hundreds.
Even in the US, there’s a big noticeable difference between someone raised in New York City vs. someone raised in say rural South Dakota or suburban Florida.
The culture highlighted in this video is Mandinka, the descendants of a sophisticated empire – The Mali – in West Africa from the 13th though 16th centuries.
This is not THE African culture. It is one of many, many shimmering cultural heritages that can be found on the African continent.
One of the things that makes Cuba such a potent cultural force is that people from all over Africa came together in one relatively small geographical area to create a supercharged fusion of the gifts they brought with them from their homelands. The Mandinka were part of the mix.
Great news!
You can now watch this video – and all Spanish language videos – with English subtitles. It’s free!
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