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Guitar Legend Juan Carlos Quintero Releases New Album 'Desserts'
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
As with all good meals, the sweets are the most memorable! It’s no wonder that guitar legend Juan Carlos Quintero’s critically acclaimed chart-topping 2022 release, Table For Five, segues so effortlessly to the sequel—the new album, Desserts… Quintero’s new album expands the music menu producing tasty treats while skillfully blending authentic grooves – originating from South American & Caribbean regions – culminating in a thread of meaningful performances honoring the beauty and breadth of Latin-Jazz traditions! Enticing gems include “The ...
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Nice Jazz Festival and Jazz at Juan les Pins 2018
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All About Jazz
The Cote d'Azur, France's legendary playground, celebrated the first jazz festival 70 years ago but the concept did not become an annual event until the early 1970s. Set beside the impossibly blue Mediterranean, jazz festivals are celebrated all along the coast from Cannes to Monte Carlo. Here we look at two major events in July, Nice Jazz Festival and Jazz at Juan les Pins, Antibes. The first jazz festival was organized by Jacques Herbey in Nice in February ...
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Drummer/Composer Juan Carlos Polo CD Release Concert at Smoke Jazz Club on February 1
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Juan Carlos Polo
Official CD release concert will be held on February 1st at Smoke Jazz Club Insomnio was recorded and produced in NYC with New York-based musicians under the record label One Trick Dog Records. Drummer and composer Juan Carlos Polo will present his debut album Insomnio on February 1st at the world-renowned Smoke Jazz Club. With Insomnio, Polo demonstrates his skills as band leader and composer, including eight original tunes. The album features the participation of several up-and-coming New York based ...
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Photographer Juan-Carlos Hernandez's Book "Estelas de Jazz" Now Available in Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Juan Carlos Hernandez
After seven years of visually capturing jazz musicians around the world, Juan-Carlos Hernandez has compiled his first book of photos entitled Estelas de Jazz, available worldwide through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Hernandez collaborated with Spanish writer Belen Carmona Moreno whose literary writings accompany 100+ black and white photographs. Though the photographs are in the universal language, the text is in Spanish. Another important detail: Estelas de Jazz is not just about the stars of jazz like Ornette Coleman and ...
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Juan Cruz de Urquiza: Quinteto Urbano and Beyond
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
In the late 90s and early aughts, trumpeter Juan Cruz de Urquiza led Quinteto Urbano, one of the bands that inaugurated the new Argentine jazz. He remains one of the most prominent players in Buenos Aires. Eric Benson: What's changed in Argentine jazz over the last ten years? Juan Cruz de Urquiza: A new kind of musician has appeared who's concerned not only with being a good improviser and a good craftsman, but also with composition, with exploration, with searching ...
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The Argentine Invasion, PT. 3: Juan Cruz de Urquiza
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
Joining Richard Nant in the trumpet section of Guillermo Klein's Base de Nave (at the Vanguard next month) will be Juan Cruz de Urquiza. JCU studied at Berklee with Klein and Nant in the early 90s, but unlike them, he returned to Buenos Aires soon after graduating. Much of the new Argentine jazz comes out of Klein's and Nant's work in mid- to late-90s New York (that's a large focus of my upcoming Checkout report), but JCU's contribution shouldn't be ...
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Playboy Jazz Festival Adds the Pete Escovedo Orchestra Featuring Sheila E., Peter Michael and Juan Escovedo to Line-up on Saturday, June 12th at the Hollywood Bowl. Los Van Van Tour Cancelled.
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Michael Ricci
The Pete Escovedo Orchestra featuring Sheila E., Peter Michael and Juan Escovedo will join the Playboy Jazz Festival line-up Saturday, June 12th, it was announced today by Dick Rosenzweig, President of the Playboy Jazz Festival.
The group will replace Los Van Van, who regretfully have had to postpone their upcoming tour. “The coordinators of the tour of Los Van Van regret to announce that, due to an unresolved business matter between the group and a third party and circumstances beyond ...
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Latin Percussionist Pete Escovedo, Son Juan and Daughter Sheila E Visit Seattle's Jazz Alley
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Michael Ricci
For Los Angeles percussionist Pete Escovedo, music has always been a family affair. The Northern California native first made his mark with his siblings Coke and Phil in the Escovedo Brothers Latin Jazz Band, a sextet that expanded the West Coast Afro-Cuban sound pioneered by Cal Tjader. Along with his brother Coke (who passed away in 1986), he went on to found the seminal Latino rock band Azteca in 1970, though Pete reached a much larger audience touring and recording ...
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Telluride Jazz Celebration in Colorado's Majestic San Juan Mountains Returns to Traditional Summer Dates for 34th Edition (August 6-8, 2010)
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MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
Dates for the 34th Annual Telluride Jazz Celebration (TJC), scheduled for August 6-8, 2010, were announced today by festival director Paul Machado and mark a return to the event's traditional summer time slot after taking place for the past two years in early June. “We're in the final stages of finalizing the 2010 line-up which will feature a full slate of Friday events in addition to music all day Saturday and Sunday and reinforce our long- standing commitment to nurturing ...
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Colorado’S Telluride Jazz Celebration Set for June 5-7 in Majestic San Juan Mountains
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MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
Bill Frisell Special Guest at 3-Day Event Also Featuring Donald Harrison, Christian Scott, Rebirth Brass Band, Lizz Wright, Jimmy Herring, Benevento/Russo Duo, Ozomatli, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
(Telluride, CO - April 13, 2009) Since 1977 Telluride’s spectacular location high in the majestic San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado has been the site of an annual cultural event produced by the Telluride Society for Jazz combining the finest of nature and art that ranks among the world’s most memorable music festivals. ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Juan "Cuco" Castellanos
Instrument: Percussion
