May 12-14 - Dafnis Prieto Quintet Celebrating the Release of His New Zoho Music CD Absolute Quintet
At the
Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street
(btw. Park and Lex.)
212-576-2232
http://www.jazzstandard.net
Music charge: Music Charge: $25 / $20 Sunday
Sets at 7:30 & 9:30PM
Fri. & Sat. Third Set at 11:30 PM
Featuring
Dafnis Prieto - drums, percussion
Brian Lynch - trumpet *except Sunday
Avishai Cohen - trumpet Sunday only
Peter Apfelbaum - tenor saxophone
Manuel Valera - piano
Hans Glawischnig - bass Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, drummer/composer/band leader Dafnis Prieto began his career with the bands of Cuban stars like Carlos Maza and Ramon Valle. Since arriving in New York in 1999, he has worked with Steve Coleman, Henry Threadgill, Eddie Palmieri, Andrew Hill, and Michel Camilo, to name a few. In The New York Times last year, Ben Ratliff praised Dafnis Prieto's debut album, About The Monks (Zoho Music, 2005), as “some of the best of New York's new Latin-jazz movement, distinguished by complex, jaggedly modern writing, but also by a deep cul-tural literacy of Cuban folklore.
At the
Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street
(btw. Park and Lex.)
212-576-2232
http://www.jazzstandard.net
Music charge: Music Charge: $25 / $20 Sunday
Sets at 7:30 & 9:30PM
Fri. & Sat. Third Set at 11:30 PM
Featuring
Dafnis Prieto - drums, percussion
Brian Lynch - trumpet *except Sunday
Avishai Cohen - trumpet Sunday only
Peter Apfelbaum - tenor saxophone
Manuel Valera - piano
Hans Glawischnig - bass Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, drummer/composer/band leader Dafnis Prieto began his career with the bands of Cuban stars like Carlos Maza and Ramon Valle. Since arriving in New York in 1999, he has worked with Steve Coleman, Henry Threadgill, Eddie Palmieri, Andrew Hill, and Michel Camilo, to name a few. In The New York Times last year, Ben Ratliff praised Dafnis Prieto's debut album, About The Monks (Zoho Music, 2005), as “some of the best of New York's new Latin-jazz movement, distinguished by complex, jaggedly modern writing, but also by a deep cul-tural literacy of Cuban folklore.
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