Yosvany Terry & Baptiste Trotignon "ancestral Memories" at The Falcon

“Cuba meets France via Haiti and West Africa as two formidable 40-ish world musicians encounter, align their influences, cross metaphorical épées and make sparks fly. - New York City Jazz Record

Cuban-American saxophonist/percussionist/composer Yosvany Terry’s innovative work, a unique confluence of Cuban roots music and jazz“, has helped redefine Latin jazz as a complex new idiom" (The New York Times). From his earliest days in New York, Yosvany has been welcomed by the jazz and contemporary music community; playing with Branford Marsalis, Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, Roy Hargrove, Jeff “Tain” Watts, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba....

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“Cuba meets France via Haiti and West Africa as two formidable 40-ish world musicians encounter, align their influences, cross metaphorical épées and make sparks fly. - New York City Jazz Record

Cuban-American saxophonist/percussionist/composer Yosvany Terry’s innovative work, a unique confluence of Cuban roots music and jazz“, has helped redefine Latin jazz as a complex new idiom" (The New York Times). From his earliest days in New York, Yosvany has been welcomed by the jazz and contemporary music community; playing with Branford Marsalis, Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, Roy Hargrove, Jeff “Tain” Watts, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

With grant support from the French-American Jazz Exchange Program, Yosvany Terry and French pianist Baptiste Trotignon present a program inspired by the rich and diverse musical traditions that emerged from the African Diaspora in the US and former French colonies in the Americas. The project, Ancestral Memories, the project captures the rhythms, melodies, and harmonies of the Caribbean, New Orleans and French Louisiana, re-imagined through 21st century aesthetics and a jazz sensibility.

Nominated for a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album, New Throned King, Yosvany Terry’s most recent album, was based on a similar concept and seamlessly blended modern jazz with the ceremonial music of the West African and Cuban Arara culture.

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