Arts for Art Presents the first Latin Free Jazz Festival. at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center

Arts for Art is excited to announce the first Latin Free Jazz Festival. This new program is meant to challenge the reductive "Latin Jazz" label by using it as a programming premise, and proving it insufficient through the diversity of voices and approaches.
The featured artists are representative of Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico, & Spain.
But most of all they represent themselves. They play music that they hear inside which goes far beyond national borders.


7:30 Abraham Gomez Delgado / Taylor Ho Bynum

Abraham Gomez Delgado - percussion / Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet...

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Arts for Art is excited to announce the first Latin Free Jazz Festival. This new program is meant to challenge the reductive "Latin Jazz" label by using it as a programming premise, and proving it insufficient through the diversity of voices and approaches.
The featured artists are representative of Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico, & Spain.
But most of all they represent themselves. They play music that they hear inside which goes far beyond national borders.


7:30 Abraham Gomez Delgado / Taylor Ho Bynum

Abraham Gomez Delgado - percussion / Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet


8:45 Angelica Sanchez / Omar Tamez

Angelica Sanchez - piano / Omar Tamez - guitar


10:00 Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba Small Ensemble

Michele Rosewoman- piano, vocals / Gregg August- bass
Adam Cruz - drums / Roman Diaz- bata, congas, vocals
Abraham Rodriguez- bata, congas, vocals / Nicky Laboy- bata, congas, vocals

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