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Yosvany Terry & the Afro-Caribbean Legacy with Jesus Diaz, John Santos and Michael Spiro
Friday July 18, 2008
$12 adv./$15 door - 8pm
Yosvany Terry (saxes and chekere) and the Afro-Caribbean Legacy which includes Pedro Martinez (lead vocal and percussion), Osmany Paredes (piano), Ramon “Sandy” Perez (percussion), Felix “Pupi” Insua (dance), Roman Diaz (percussion), Yunior Terry (Bass) will throw down for an inspiring and energetic evening of Afro-Cuban Jazz. They will be joined in this jam session by Bay Area guest artists: Jesus Diaz, John Santos and Michael Spiro.
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ALSO: Lecture-Demonstration with Yosvany Terry: Ye-dé-gbé & the Afro-Caribbean Legacy: Tuesday, July 22, 7pm - $10 adv./$12 door
In this program, Yosvany and the group will demonstrate Afro-Cuban folkloric rhythms, in particular from the Arará tradition. The artists will also demonstrate and discuss how they approach melodic, harmonic and rhythm to integrate the folkloric rhythms to Jazz music.
Events take place at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA 94705 . For more info, please visit www.lapena.org or call 510-849-2568
Presented in association with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (link) and Stanford Jazz Workshop (link) www.stanfordjazz.org
These events are part of Yosvany Terry: Yedégbé – The Afro-Caribbean Legacy project with additional performances at
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival on Saturday July 19, 1-3pm
Stanford Jazz Festival on Sunday July 20, 2008, 7:30pm
