The Kyle Athayde Dance Party at Armando's

A big band performing Swing, Latin, R&B, Soul and Funk.

Kyle Athayde is a composer, arranger, performer, teacher, and bandleader.
A native of Orinda, he plays vibraphone, piano, trumpet, and drums, bongos, congas, timbales, string bass, bass clarinet, sousaphone, and vocal percussion.
He is the leader, conductor, and principal writer for the big band, "Kyle Athayde Dance Party", a group acclaimed for its versatility in the wide scope of styles it performs.

Influenced by the music of J. S. Bach, Duke Ellington, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eric Dolphy, Dmitri Shostakovich, Louis Armstrong, Igor Stravinsky, Charlie Parker, Olivier Messiaen, Art Tatum, and many others, Athayde composes and arranges music in a variety of genres, with an emphasis on jazz, classical, salsa, and electronic. ...

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A big band performing Swing, Latin, R&B, Soul and Funk.

Kyle Athayde is a composer, arranger, performer, teacher, and bandleader.
A native of Orinda, he plays vibraphone, piano, trumpet, and drums, bongos, congas, timbales, string bass, bass clarinet, sousaphone, and vocal percussion.
He is the leader, conductor, and principal writer for the big band, "Kyle Athayde Dance Party", a group acclaimed for its versatility in the wide scope of styles it performs.

Influenced by the music of J. S. Bach, Duke Ellington, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eric Dolphy, Dmitri Shostakovich, Louis Armstrong, Igor Stravinsky, Charlie Parker, Olivier Messiaen, Art Tatum, and many others, Athayde composes and arranges music in a variety of genres, with an emphasis on jazz, classical, salsa, and electronic.

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