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Florencia Gonzalez Big Band CD Release

Source: Florencia Gonzalez
August 13, 2012

Described by the Boston Phoenix as “recalling the best of Mingus, Monk and Gil Evans...” Florencia Gonzalez Big Band has been together since 2007; playing regularly at the Lily Pad every other Thursday, and was selected last year one of the best 5 jazz bands in Boston. Being originally from Uruguay, her music infuses jazz and classical music with tango, candombe, chacarera and many other rhythms brought from the southern region of South America, incorporating extra woodwind colors, such as ...

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