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Oscar Perez: Prepare A Place For Me
by Dan Bilawsky
If Oscar Perez hadn't taken to the piano, he might've had a promising career in music journalism. In the concise and profound liner essay for this album, Perez intelligently considers the meaning of music, the struggles and joys connected to the art of creating and performing, and the way an individual's very being seeps into the ...
Longwood Gardens' Wine and Jazz Festival: Kennett Square, PA, June 2, 2012
by Victor L. Schermer
Longwood Gardens' Wine and Jazz FestivalThe Meadows at Longwood GardensKennett Square, PAJune 2, 2012After a night of thunderstorms and tornado warnings, the weather cleared at Longwood Gardens, a horticultural conservancy spread over a wide swath of countryside in Kennett Square, Chester County, PA. The day turned out sunny and mild, perfect ...
Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo: Afropean Affair
by AAJ Italy Staff
Oscar Perez attinge alle sue radici afro-cubane e alla passione per la musica classica per realizzare Afropean Affair dedicando un'attenzione particolare sia alle composizioni che agli arrangiamenti. Perez è Accompagnato dal suo “Nuevo Comienzo," formazione nata nel 2004 che racchiude musicisti di talento dell'area di New York con i quali ha maturato in questi anni un ...
Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Profiles the Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo and Their New Release "Afropean Affair"
The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features an exclusive interview with Oscar Perez of the Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo regarding the brand new release Afropean Affair. In the opening segment, Perez discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of ...
Eugene Holley Jr.'s Best Releases of 2011
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
At a time when Hispanics are the dominant minority in the United States, The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences has decided to eliminate the Latin Jazz category. This list is posted in solidarity with those who demand that the category be reinstated. Fabian Almazan ...
Afropean Affair
By Oscar Perez
Label: Chandra Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Illusive Number; Canaria; As Brothers Would; Paths and Streams; The Afropean Suite (Cosas Lindas Que Viven Ahora; Last Season's Sorrow; A New Day Emerging).
Oscar Perez / Nuevo Comienzo: Afropean Affair
by Dave Wayne
On Afropean Affair , pianist/composer Óscar Pérez treads an appealing line between Afro-Latin jazz and modern jazz reminiscent of the Cuban band Irakere--or, perhaps, the first couple of Chick Corea Return to Forever discs, with saxophonist/flautist Joe Farrell and drummer Airto). A native of New York City, Pérez's early immersion in both Afro-Cuban ...
OSPAC Jazz Festival 2009
A wealth of top jazz artists will perform at the Seventh Annual Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center Jazz Festival, Sept. 12 and 13. Among those appearing at the OSPAC amphitheater, 4 Boland Drive (off Prospect Avenue near Route 280) in West Orange, are the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars with bassist John Lee and trumpeter Claudio Roditi ...
Nuevo Comienzo
By Oscar Perez
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: My Prelude; Baile de K; El Padrino; Borrowed 'n Blue; Hilltop Arrival; Sweet Duality; Regalo;
Solamente Todo; May; Early Endeavor; Nuevo Comienza Motif.
Oscar Perez: Nuevo Comienzo
by Matt Merewitz
Pianist Oscar Perez has not exactly gone unnoticed. Sure, you may not have heard of him before now. But esteemed trombonist Wycliffe Gordon has taken note, as have saxophonist George Garzone, trombonist Curtis Fuller, and composer George Russell, all of whom have incorporated the young New York-based pianist into their ensembles. Perez shows his ample skill ...
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