Román Díaz's Rumba Ensemble 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.

Román Díaz is a scholar of religious and folkloric music, composer & performer of folklore and contemporary jazz...

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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.

Román Díaz is a scholar of religious and folkloric music, composer & performer of folklore and contemporary jazz. Considered both a pillar of the New York City jazz avant-garde and one of Afro Cuban music’s great innovators, his Rumba Ensemble displays his vision of the confluence of New York City’s tradition of music of the African diaspora. He has performed and recorded with Merceditas Valdes, Raices Profundas, Paquito D’Rivera, Michele Rosewoman, Henry Threadgill, David Virelles, Jane Bunnett, Juan Carlos Formell, Orlando “Puntilla” Rios, Oriente Lopez, Afro Horn & Danilo Perez among many others.

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