Blog, Latin Jazz, Puerto Rico, Video and audio
Born in East Harlem in 1947, Felipe Luciano was a member of the Original Last Poets and a co-founder of the Young Lords.
As reporter for NBC, he became the first Puerto Rican news anchor of a major media network station in the United States where he also won an Emmy for his reporting on Riker’s Island.
On WRVR-FM, he hosted Latin Roots which mixed political advocacy with a salsa soundtrack giving regular New York air play to artists like Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri and Celia Cruz.
You can follow Felipe here: https://www.facebook.com/FelipeLucianoProductions/
– Ken McCarthy
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Blog, Latin Jazz, Puerto Rico, Video and audio
When American jazz “refugees” washed up on the shore on Havana in 1977 (the first jazz musicians to visit the Island since 1961) they included:
Dizzy Gillespie…Stan Getz…Ray Mantilla…Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines…
…And the featured artist on this clip David Amram, the “ever hopeful” composer and jazzman celebrating his 87th birthday this year.
Here’s David’s contribution to the “Salsa Meet Jazz” benefit for Puerto Rico.
They’re playing “Caravan” written by Puerto Rican composer and jazzman Juan Tizol.
David played with Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie and socialized, talked music and played behind the scenes with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Bud Powell, just to name a few.
If you want to a good read, David’s books on his life in music are fantastic and truly one-of-a-kind. They are:
• Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat
• Vibrations: A memoir
• Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac
You can keep up with David here: DavidAmram.com
– Ken McCarthy
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Blog, Latin Jazz, Puerto Rico, Video and audio
“Mosaíco Puertorriqueño: Dedicated to Rafael Hernandez” arranged by Eugene Marlow, Ph.D.
– Ken McCarthy
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Afro-Cuban culture, Latin Jazz, Puerto Rico, Video, Video and audio
Bobby Sanabria introduces the members of his MULTIVERSE Big Band.
Founded in 1998
The oldest Latin Jazz Orchestra in New York City
Multi-Grammy Nominated
Filmed at the Salsa Meets Jazz Benefit for Puerto Rico at Le Poisson Rouge (the late, great Village Gate.)
DRUMS, MUSICAL DIRECTOR:
Bobby Sanabria
SAXES:
David Dejesus – lead alto, soprano, flute
Andrew Gould – alto, flute
Peter Brainin – tenor, flute
Yaacov Mayman – tenor, flute
Danny Rivera – bariton
TRUMPETS:
Kevin Bryan – lead
John Walsh
Tyler Tritt
Andrew Neesely
TROMBONES:
Dave Miller
Tim Sessions
Armando Vergara
Chris Washburne
PIANO:
Darwin Noguera
ELECTRIC BASS:
Leo Traversa
CONGAS:
Oreste Abrantes
BONGÓ/CENECERRO, BARRÍL DE BOMBA, PANDERETA:
Matthew Gonzalez
GUEST MUSICIANS:
FLUTE:
Gabrielle Garo
ALTO SAX:
Patrick Bartley
VIOLIN:
Ben Sutin
The official: Bobby Sanabria Website
The Jazz on the Tube interview with Bobby Sanabria
A biography of Bobby Sanabria
Clips from the historic Salsa Meets Jazz Benefit for Puerto Rico at Le Poisson Rouge (formerly The Village Gate.)
– Ken McCarthy
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Blog, Cuba, Travel to Cuba
How to get there? Is it expensive?
It’s easy to get to Cuba. Just get on a plane. There are scheduled flights everyday out of places like New York City and Miami.
Is travel in Cuba expensive?
Yes and no.
If you go with a packaged tour or use the “normal” travel industry, yes. Cuba is no bargain. Budget at least $400 a day (probably more) plus your airfare.
You could have an exponentially better time – better housing, better food, better entertainment – for about $100 a day.
How do you do that?
You have to go to an informed person.
How do you do that?
Easy.
– Ken McCarthy
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Afro-Cuban culture, Blog, Cuba, Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, Video and audio
The deeper you dive into Cuban music, the more amazing it reveals itself to be.
Sometimes I have to ask myself is Cuba a country – or an alternate universe?
How can such a small country – with less people than Ohio – generate so much musical accomplishment?
Notice: I don’t day “talent.”
Talent is a dime a dozen. Realization of talent is the thing that matters.
It takes dedication and relentless study – and a higher moral purpose – to turn raw musical talent into accomplishment the way the Cuban people have.
Here’s an example of all the various threads of Cuban music brought together on one stage: reverence for classical music, immersion in Afro-Cuban rhythms, affection for popular genres, and hip-as-hell jazz sensibilities.
Who is this flute playing musical visionary dressed in white?
Meet: Orlando Valle, aka Maraca. Enjoy and Viva Cuba!
How about another one? The small unit works out on “Manteca”
– Ken McCarthy
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