Dayramir Gonzรกlez filled the house @exuberance when he appeared here last July before a rapturous audience. His return next month should be just as thrilling.
Dayramir was already a star when he moved to the States 10 years ago with 3 Cubadisco awards for his album Habana enTRANCร He has a mentor and champion in Chucho Valdes who included Dayramir in a 2012 Carnegie Hall series alongside Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Danilo Perez and Chucho himself. A summa cum laude graduate at Berklee School of Music, Gonzรกlez is co-founder and music director of The Art School of Contemporary Performance & Creativity in the South Bronx....
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Dayramir Gonzรกlez filled the house @exuberance when he appeared here last July before a rapturous audience. His return next month should be just as thrilling.
Dayramir was already a star when he moved to the States 10 years ago with 3 Cubadisco awards for his album Habana enTRANCร He has a mentor and champion in Chucho Valdes who included Dayramir in a 2012 Carnegie Hall series alongside Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Danilo Perez and Chucho himself. A summa cum laude graduate at Berklee School of Music, Gonzรกlez is co-founder and music director of The Art School of Contemporary Performance & Creativity in the South Bronx.
He provocatively describes his recent album The Grand Concourse as โa tribute to Buena Vista Social Club, Mozart, and John Coltrane mixed with Dayramirโs spices.โ The album gets boffo attention in Larry Blumenfeldโs WSJ review calling Mr. Gonzalez โa stunningly gifted composer and arrangerโ who displays โassured and sometimes daring pianismโ with โa sensitive yet bold touch.โ
Joining Dayramir @exuberance:
Bassist Dean Torrey played here last year with Dayramir. He has worked with Muhal Richard Abrams, Thurman Barker, Rodney Green, Francisco Mela, Ed Cherry, Tivon Pennicott, Micah Thomas, Immanuel Wilkins and the Onyx Collective.
Juan Chiavassa grew up in Argentina. Since graduating from Berklee School of Music, he has worked with John Patitucci, Terence Blanchard, George Garzone, David Kikoski, Paquito D'Rivera, Leo Genovese, Kenny Werner, Victor Wooten, Oscar Stagnaro, Bob Moses, Pablo Ziegler, Ruben Rada, Hugo Fattoruso, Ricardo Nole, Gonzalo Aloras, Javier Mallosetti and Lito Nebbia, among others.
Cuban percussionist Keisel Jimรฉnez moved to New York in 2015 with a distinguished resumรฉ. Most recently he has performed with Adonis Fuentes, directed by Oscar Hernรกndez (Spanish Harlem Orchestra).
We look forward to an evening of inventive lyricism and polyrhythmic verve. Please join us for this extraordinary quartet.
Dayramir Gonzรกlez
8-11 pm Friday, June 14
1220 N. Mascher St. (steps away from the Girard Ave. El stop)
We contemplate a $30 donation to support the musicians and provide appropriate refreshments.
Click RSVP to this invitation (https://forms.gle/UHAx89C5uU81k3bK6) to get on the guest list. Invitation expires when we reach 85 attendees. Looking forward to seeing you.
Matt Yaple
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@exuberance parties at Mattโs are by invitation only to provide a dignified, comfortable and acoustically ideal setting for worthwhile art and ideas. Cellphones and other devices are to be holstered during the performances. Between sets, conviviality rules.
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