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Progressive Cuban Jazz with the Elio Villafranca Quintet at the Jazz Standard
When it comes to authentic Cuban Jazz, The Elio Villafranca Quintet brings you only the best. Elio Villafranca first appeared on stage with his quartet in the New Dimensions in Latin Jazz Series in 2007. Since then, this gifted pianist and composer won the first NFA/Heineken Green Ribbon Master Artist Music Grant from the National ...
Pianist Elio Villafranca Interviewed at AAJ
Cuban born pianist Elio Villafranca has spent a lifetime observing the space between different worlds. He spent his childhood in the small Piñar de Rio region on the Western coast of Cuba and then jumped into the centralized bustle of Havana. He went through a broad and varied musical education that not only focused on the ...
Elio Villafranca: The Source In Between
by Chip Boaz
Cuban born pianist Elio Villafranca has spent a lifetime observing the space between different worlds. He spent his childhood in the small Piñar de Rio region on the Western coast of Cuba and then jumped into the centralized bustle of Havana. He went through a broad and varied musical education that not only focused on the ...
The Source In Between
Label: Ceiba Tree Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Source In Between; The Lonely One; Oddua Suite; Three Plus One; In The Dark; Faces, Not Evil; Resurrection Of The Incapacitated; Don't Ever Say Never; Luna; The Source In Between (Latin Re-Mix).
Elio Villafranca Quartet: The Source In Between
by Marcia Hillman
Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca has found the way to celebrate both his Latin jazz roots and straight-ahead jazz influences on The Source In Between. Along with tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, drummer Dafnis Prieto, bassist Jeff Carney and also featuring saxophonist Yosvany Terry, hand percussionist Arturo Stable and drummer Ferenc Nemeth on selected tracks, Villafranca wends his ...
The Elio Villafranca Quintet in an Exclusive Valentine's Day Engagement
BLue HAIR STUDIO PRESENTS AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ GREATS, THE ELIO VILLAFRANCA QUINTET IN AN EXCLUSIVE VALENTINE'S DAY ENGAGEMENT Saturday, February 16, 2008, 8 pm - midnight, BLue hair studio presents Afro-Cuban jazz greats, The Elio Villafranca Quintet, featuring David Valentin, Charles Flores, Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez, and Juan Castellanos, for an exclusive Valentine's Day performance to benefit ...
Incantations Encantaciones
Label: Pimienta Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Oguere?s Cha (E. Villafranca) 2. El Hombre (P. Martino) 3. Encantaciones Cubanas (E.
Villafranca) 4. Assumption (E. Villafranca) 5. Negrita Prende la Vela (L. Berm?dez) 6. Cacique (E.
Villafranca) 7. You Spoke Too Soon (E. Villafranca) 8. Something Nice to Say About You (E.
Villafranca) 9. Orishaoko (E. Villafranca) 10. It?s Not That Serious (E. Villafranca)
Elio Villafranca: Incantations Encantaciones
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Yet another Cuban loss is Philadelphia's gain. Enter Elio Villafranca. Incantations Encantaciones, produced alongside Larry Cramer, is his sortie into winning leadership. Sorting out the pianist's musicality, brute force, effervescence, topicality, virtuostic independence (just pay attention in “You Spoke Too Soon" on this regard), patience, candor, and brazen delicacy is not that difficult. This is one ...
Elio Villafranca: Schoenberg's Cuban Street
by Javier AQ Ortiz
As we talked on the phone and exchanged e-mails, enough of a view on Elio Villafranca surfaced. The sight, tinted by listening to his Incantations/Encantaciones over several weeks now, is also awash in universal social commonalities among musicians, their craft, industry and conduct. His is also the stereotypical tale of an 'migr' from a dim repressor ...
