Francisco Mora Catlett's Afro-horn at Jazz Libre! at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center

“A Function at the Junction: Ancestral Bridge, Musical Streams”.
“Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales”

Featuring Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba, to be joined by Francisco Mora Catlett's Afro Horn and Roman Diaz's Rumba Ensemble, Arts for Art will co-present an evening of live performance on November 11, 2021 at the Clemente Soto Velez Center, Flamboyan Theater NYC, to be filmed for subsequent broadcast through the HotHouseGlobal platforms and via National Cuban TV.

Afro Horn is an avant-garde ensemble that highlights the African presence in the Americas through an assemblage of prime musicians and a repertoire of written and improvised jazz expressions and Cuban folkloric influences. Mr. Mora is especially known for his work with Motown, Sun Ra and Max Roach and as co-founder of the Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Experimental Dance Company (2000) with his wife Danys Perez Prades, performing dance and music from the African Diaspora. ...

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“A Function at the Junction: Ancestral Bridge, Musical Streams”.
“Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales”

Featuring Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba, to be joined by Francisco Mora Catlett's Afro Horn and Roman Diaz's Rumba Ensemble, Arts for Art will co-present an evening of live performance on November 11, 2021 at the Clemente Soto Velez Center, Flamboyan Theater NYC, to be filmed for subsequent broadcast through the HotHouseGlobal platforms and via National Cuban TV.

Afro Horn is an avant-garde ensemble that highlights the African presence in the Americas through an assemblage of prime musicians and a repertoire of written and improvised jazz expressions and Cuban folkloric influences. Mr. Mora is especially known for his work with Motown, Sun Ra and Max Roach and as co-founder of the Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Experimental Dance Company (2000) with his wife Danys Perez Prades, performing dance and music from the African Diaspora.

As part of a unique community of musicians here in NYC with deep ties to both spiritually-based Cuban folkloric traditions and contemporary jazz, Ms. Rosewoman, Román Díaz and Francisco Mora Catlett share conceptual, artistic and spiritual intersections. Ms. Rosewoman sees this as an opportunity to "incorporate and stage the work of treasured co-creators who also highlight these traditions in unique contemporary contexts, while building bridges between artists & cultural voices based in NY and also those artificially separated by Cuba/U.S. policies." Master folklorist Román Díaz, a member of all three ensembles (leader of one), as well as a former member of Yoruba Andabo (Cuba) has been a featured and foundational member of her New Yor-Uba ensemble since 2008. Fullfilling a desire to further share her music (deeply informed by traditions born of Cuba) with Cuban audiences through her partnership with HotHouse Global, especially gratifying for Ms.Rosewoman is the fact that Mr. Diaz is featured in all 3 ensembles. "This project enables us to share Mr. Díaz with the Cuban communities he is born of but separated from, as they experience his impact on the jazz community here in the U.S. And by 'taking' this music to Cuba, we all return to the source & pay homage to the roots of our inspiration, nurturing this junction."

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