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Claudia Villela & Kenny Werner at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on November 30, 2017
Where
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227
When
Mon, March 5, 2018
7:00 pm
Save the date
About
1/2 price for students at the door
ForClaudia Villela, music is a journey into spontaneity and inspiration as her past recording projects with Toots Thielemanns and Michael Brecker can attest. Raised in Rio de Janeiro she absorbed the folkloric tradition of her native Brazil, as well as the influences of classical composers and American jazz. Her vocal improvisations and compositions encompass the full range of emotive sound, sometimes dramatic, sometimes humorous, but always fascinating. She has been dubbed by JazzTimes Magazine as a genius with a blistering voice and she will be joined on this concert date by sublime pianist Kenny Werner. ...