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Nachito Herrera

2020: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what “new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...

Jazz Concert to Salute Veterans

September 26, 2008

The UW-Eau Claire jazz program will honor veterans during “A Salute to the Big Bands: Let Freedom Ring" concert Sunday at Zorn Arena. The annual fundraiser will feature the university's Jazz Ensembles I and II. The groups will play music from the big band era including patriotic tunes and dance songs. “There will be two large ...

Live at the Dakota 2

By Nachito Herrera

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Released: 2006
Track listing: Introduction; Spain in the Twins; Speak No Evil; Yes or No; Afro 6/8; Tulip

Nachito Herrera: Live at the Dakota 2

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 7, 2006

This 2003 date by pianist Nachito Herrera, a veteran of both the Cubanismo group and an idiosyncratic migration from Havana to Minneapolis, is his second live record from the Dakota, located in his adopted hometown. This time around, the large-group format of the first live disc gives way to a smaller ensemble. Herrera's group masters the ...

Bemb

By Nachito Herrera

Label: FS Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Song In F; Nacho's Pilon; Big News; Nostalgia; Bembe En Mi Casa; Capullito De Aleli; Llegaron Los Millonarios; Guaguanco Para Ochun; Potpourri De Cha-Cha-Cha; Estas En Mi Corazon; Ritmo Caliente.

Nachito Herrera: Bemb

by Chris May
October 8, 2005

Nachito Herrera conceived this recording as an exposition of eleven different Cuban song forms--from bolero and cha-cha-cha through guaracha and guanguanco, with a strong admixture of jazz throughout--but any danger of Bembé En Mi Casa coming on like a college lecture disappears with track one, note one. A campus riot would be a more accurate description. ...