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Calixto Oviedo

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Calixto Oviedo is a Latin Grammy nominated artist (2000 La Rumba del Siglo) Latin Grammy and Grammy nominated 2020 (Afro Peruvian Jazz Orquesta) He is endorser: by DW Drums, LP , Eduardo MontanoJ Sticks drums and Soultone Cymbals. Calixto has had the opportunity to play with numerous internationally known artists including Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chucho Valdes, Danilo Perez and many others with a career that spans over 40 years. Calixto moved from Stockholm to Lakewood, CO in July of 2013. Since then he has been performing and teaching clinics at major United States Universities, such as University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), California State University at Los Angeles (CSULA), and Berklee College of Music. He has been honored to play at this various festivals around the world: Feria de Cali, Colombia ; Montreaux Jazz Festival, Paleo Rock Festival, Carnaval in Panamá, Nice jazz Festival, France; Roskilde Festival, Festival de Salsa en Madrid, Spain; North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands; Antillansefeesten, Belgium; Festival de Salsa en Barcelona, Spain; Umbria Jazz, Italy; Couleur Café, Belgium; Festival di San Remo, Italy; Riga Ritmi Festival, Latvia; Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Denmark; Nordischerklang, Germany; Gottingen Jazz Festival, Germany; Red Sea Jazz Festiva, Eilat – Israel; Imatra Big Band Festival, Finland; Umeå Jazz Festival, Sweden; Oslo World Music, Norway; Salsa Festival, Madrid, Spain; Feria del Pacifico, Peru; Frutas Tropicales, Helsinki – Finland; Molde Jazz Festival, Molde, Norway; Udine jazz –Italy; A Sulle Bocce –Italy; Montreal Jazz Festival –Canada; Portland Jazz Festival; Sun Festival –Singapore. As of October 1st, 2014, Calixto became a professor at the California State University at Los Angeles (CSULA).

Books

Salsa Beyond Percussion VOL

Book II: Calixto Oviedo - Drums & Timbales: Basic Rhythms

Authored by Kevin Moore, Calixto Oviedo is the first artist featured in the manuscript series Beyond Salsa Percussion, the companion to author Kevin Moore's Beyond Salsa Piano series. In this book, Volume II, Calixto Oviedo - Drums and Timbales: Basic Rhythms, covers the wide range of traditional rhythmic styles that he has mastered before embarking on the dramatic innovations for which he later became famous. He plays each rhythm in its traditional form and then shows how it can be adapted to drum-set in a variety of modern situations. 144 pages.

Book III: Calixto Oviedo: Drum and Timbales-Timba Gears

volume 2This tome dissects Oviedo’s style using the “gear” approach –introduced by Kevin Moore in 2004 in the book “The Tomás Cruz Conga Method”. With dozens of carefully transcribed musical examples, the goal of this volume is to help experienced drummers master the new Cuban styles and non-latin drummers, arrangers, listeners and dancers master the intricacies of Cuban music. 176 pages. Book IV: Calixto Oviedo: Drum and Timbales: NG La Banda 1

Volume IV of this series concentrates on Oviedo’s performances with NG La Banda, one of the most important and pivotal bands in Cuban music history. In this volume, Calixto retraces his own recordings with the band as the book analyzes what he does and why he does it, bar by bar. 148 pages. Instructional Videos

Beyond Salsa Percussion-Calixto Oviedo-Drums and TimbalesThis DVD combines the video footage from the two volumes above on the style of Calixto Oviedo: Beyond Salsa Percussion, Vols. 2 and 3: Basic Rhythms and Timba Gears. The EXTRAS menu contains additional raw footage from the original 3-day filming sessions, including a third solo and complete performances of the entire arrangements of four classic songs that Calixto recorded with the seminal Cuban timba band, NG La Banda.

Oviedo's percussion books are available on www.createspace.com

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I've loved jazz since my childhood. Influenced a lot in my career Buddy Rich, Elvin John, Louise Bensson, Find in the Cuban roots in their rhythm the way to mix it and the results are great

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