World Music Mix: Plena Libre(Puerto Rico)-Album: Cuatro Esquinas (2023)

 World Music Mix: Plena Libre(Puerto Rico)-Album: Cuatro Esquinas (2023)

Plena Libre celebrates 30 years of bringing the iconic sounds of their Puerto Rican homeland to stages worldwide w/the release of new album Cuatro Esquinas (Four Corners) and worldwide tour dates

Puerto Rico’s multi-Grammy–nominated musical masters, Plena Libre have consistently been enthralling audiences around the globe over the course of their storied 30-year, 16-album career with their original sound — one that infuses the traditional plena and bomba rhythms of Puerto Rico with a fresh spring mix of Afro-Caribbean and jazz styles to create groove-laden dance music that honors their deep sense of the unique indigenous musical traditions, while embracing modern trends.

Now, Plena Libre are celebrating their 30th anniversary in style, unleashing a new wave of awe-inspiring hand drumming, vivacious horns, and soul-soaring three-part vocal harmonies with the release of their new album Cuatro Esquinas (Four Corners), to be released March 31, 2023. The fine-tuned, original band of 12 versatile virtuoso musicians will also be captivating audiences across the map in 2023 with live performances scheduled at festivals in Puerto Rico, the United States, and Europe, including an appearance at the prestigious New Orleans Jazz Festival.

Founder, bandleader, and bassist Gary Nuñez stress the appropriateness of the title, since the group’s music, and especially that of this new album, reflects personal, universal situations, accompanied by the unique sounds of the Puerto Rican rhythms of the bomba and the plena. The album title was inspired by Nuñez’s youth, growing up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood where “Four Corners”, alluded to a local meeting point that sometimes even carried an unfairly bad reputation.

Says Nuñez, “Cuatro Esquinas”, in my adolescence, used to be a meeting point in my neighborhood, with some ‘bad reputation’. It was known as ‘4 Esquinas’ because in each corner there was a bar or bodega. It was the place where people met and all sorts of characters gathered there and replaced their sorrows with some joy, romance, adventure, or consolation. It is the part of our history that does not appear in the “stories” that we were told about who Puerto Ricans are”

Cuatro Esquinas is a representation of some of those experiences, captured in a mix of “traditional” and original songs. Featuring four vocalists singing in lush three-part harmonies – with an aggressive, tight, yet sensitive style, which balances the traditional with the contemporary, the global, and the local – Plena Libre creates a brand of music and live performance that captivates the multicultural audience, invites to dance and to listen to their sound.

The track, “Tu cintura con la mía” was arranged by Luisga Núñez, son of Gary Nuñez who shares with his father a passion for parranda, bajo, and vocal harmonies — bringing a taste of the next generation to the distinctive elements of the group.

“We dedicate this recording to the public and to all those people who have supported Plena Libre, through those 30 years. To all the musicians who are and who have been part of this experience, we are GRATEFUL”, enthused Núñez, who took the opportunity to particularly thank his wife Valerie Cox “for the unconditional, necessary and total support for three decades and to all the musicians that were part of this album, making it possible”.

Apart from Gary Núñez as director and bassist, Plena Libre is made up of: Víctor Vélez (vocals/percussion), Luisga Núñez (vocals/percussion), Rafi Falú (requinto), Miguel A. de Jesús (vocals/percussion), Alex “Callejero” López (vocals/percussion), Rafy Torres, Randy Román and Kevin Ortiz on trombones, Pedro Dominicci (timbales), Manuel Rivera (congas), Karla Martínez on piano and Yarina Torres in charge of choirs.

Cuatro Esquina will be available on all major streaming platforms on March 31, 2023.

Check here for tour updates: https://www.plenalibre.com/tour-dates

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JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2021: Calabó(Puerto Rico) -Album: Mind Colors

 

Calabó(Puerto Rico)-Red Sky
Album: Mind Colors
Mind Colors is a collaboration between artists forging in this way a refreshing musical conversation with a new vision of the improvisational jazz genre. Featuring Artist: Jandro Rivas, Danel Díaz, Letzer Cartagena.

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USA: The Balance Imbalance of Afinque: Dancing Through the Tensions and Intricate Realities that Unite Us with Zemog El Gallo Bueno on YoYouMeTú Volume 3

The Balance Imbalance of Afinque: Dancing Through the Tensions and Intricate Realities that Unite Us with Zemog El Gallo Bueno on YoYouMeTú Volume 3

Zemog El Gallo Bueno is the philosopher’s psychedelic Latinotronic band. With multiple, branching roots and a lifetime of grappling with identity, the driving force behind the group Abraham Gomez-Delgado-Delgado has gathered musical kindred spirits back into a band for a raw, rhythmically stunning, dancefloor-ready, thinking person’s album.

Nothing is as straightforward as you want to make it, Gomez-Delgado insists. But it can be a hell of a beautiful ride, as mapped out on YoYouMeTúTrilogy: Volume 3 (release November 9, 2018).

“It can feel awkward to use the term Latinx or Latin or Latino, because you’re being grouped together with so many people. But you can’t say no to it, or things get taken away from communities. I wanted to walk close to the line of tradition and then do something that’s not necessarily predicted. To say, hey, we are individuals and have intricate realities like other humans,” Gomez-Delgado says. “We’re not all just like, ‘hey salsa, let’s party!’ I’m not your entertainment, nor am I here to be a jerk and not entertain you.” Gomez-Delgado and Zemog are here to get you to dance to your own humanity, as they grapple musically with theirs.

Volume 3 presents a closing rally to a deep-going, wide-ranging trio of albums. The previous, Volume 2, was sparked by Gomez-Delgado’s struggle to rebuild his life while grappling with intense experiences of alienation and migration, Volume 3 revels in the joys of healing love and friendship and the three-chord song--a formula just as potent in Cuba and Puerto Rico as in garage rock (“Sexy Carnitas,” “Pianola”)--and in life’s moments, great (“Wedding Song,” “Delgados Feliz”) and small (“Quiero Correr,” about a really good jog in the park).

Gomez-Delgado’s musings on “Balance Imbalance Dance” speak to the spirit of the whole album: “Without balance there is no imbalance. You need tension. You need to throw a wrench into things,” Gomez-Delgado reflects. “It’s not an opposite; it’s in balance. You zoom out to wanting utopia, and as hard as hard times can be, we need them to remind us of what is and what is important.”

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The texture and timbre of complex experience has always been important to Gomez-Delgado. His work strives to embrace all the contradictions and riches of his Puerto Rican-Peruvian heritage, his life as a young immigrant in a sometimes less-than-friendly environment, and his yearnings as a remarkably deft and sensitive musician. He longs to create the connection between people, onstage and off, that’s often called afinque in salsa music: that moment of meld when everyone sways as one.

After a successful string of albums with his band--and many of his favorite bandmates continue to play with him--Gomez-Delgado found himself in a period of deep introspection that made it challenging to play music with others. Eventually, Gomez-Delgado found his way forward, moving all his favorite salsa elements to a single instrument that could be played by a single musician. “It coaxed me toward remembering how to play with others,” Gomez-Delgado recalls.

That energy, once coupled with the excellent New York-based musicians in Zemog, burst into new intensity at a regular gig at Brooklyn music hub Barbès, where the band had a long-standing residency. Gomez-Delgado worked to keep the intensity present on Volume 3, keeping the live vibe on tracks like “Agua a Peso” and “Pianola.”

This new-found sense of vibrant community lets Gomez-Delgado’s wonderfully vivid imagination run wild, vibrating with cha cha cha, salsa, guaracha, punk, funk, and pure idiosyncrasy. “I wanted this album to have a wide spectrum. That asks a lot of people. That’s not always fair or right, but sometimes you are reacting to what life is,” notes Gomez-Delgado. “I’m going to bring these things up in my music. I wanted to lay some heavy stuff down and if you can get through that, then we’ll have fun and a good conversation.”

The heavy stuff springs from the political, no surprise for an artist like Gomez-Delgado in this day and age. “Americae,” with its Latin lyrics and its fantastic, all-over-the-place polyrhythms, cuts to the heart of the American dilemma of its cries for freedom and its basis in genocide and slavery. “This original and ‘invisible’ sin keeps coming up. Until we deal with it, it will keep coming back,” comments Gomez-Delgado.

Yet Zemog never lets gloom dominate the conversation. “Motivate,” written with conga virtuoso Reinaldo DeJesus, urges movements and motions, with coils of low brass, inspiring percussion, and a dreamy guitar line that dares you to sit still. The lyrics ask us all to get the guts to up on the dancefloor, literally and figuratively, to step up and wake up, in an anthem that feels like Frank Zappa and Antibalas colliding with cumbia.

With a similar floating sense of rhythm but a more stately sway, “YoYouMeTú” addresses identity dilemmas of a more intimate nature. The crisis of connection that we all face--that promises greater happiness if we learn to deal with it--can be resolved only by losing some of what we cling to and having faith in this vulnerability. “The lyrics use the words ‘afinque’ and ‘afincado,’ used in salsa starting in the 60-70s. They basically describe when the band is tight and becomes one, with the dancers in the room. You lose time, fully present but not in a stressful, ego-filled way. The band is swinging. That to me is the main thing of all of this,” explains Gomez-Delgado. “It’s hard to accept because anything that’s new is contradicting what you knew before. That tension takes an inner faith to move through.”

What happens on the dancefloor or in our tangled inner worlds blurs for Zemog, but that is where the pleasures of committed relationship (a moment celebrated with his wife Olia in “Wedding Song,” which they crafted for their big day) and family (“Delgados” includes a recording of Gomez-Delgado’s extended family singing together in Puerto Rico.) This is the place Gomez-Delgado fought so hard to reach, what he lays out in polychrome, shifting, quirky detail on the album. “I don’t care how cliche it is. It’s really about us and how we affirm each other’s existence. It’s the most basic thing, but I don’t care. The message still isn’t getting through, judging by our current climate. So it’s vital to say it and play it.”

About
Zemog EL Gallo Bueno is a New York City based group of musician friends created and led by Puerto Rican/Peruvian composer and multi-instrumentalist Abraham Gomez-Delgado. Zemog’s music has been described as “Kaleidoscopic Avant Latin Roots” which adventures through 1930's Puerto Rican street cries, 60's free jazz fumes, 70's New York salsa residue and 80’s warehouse Latin Punk.
Gomez-Delgado left his native Puerto Rico as a child and relocated to the mainland U.S. where he moved frequently and lived in different socio-economic and racially charged communities where he experienced first hand the deep divisions and injustices that plague the United States. He had also met many healing, inspiring and loving people through out his journey, in the U.S. These experiences and people helped shape much of Abraham Gomez-Delgado’s music and led him to connect and collaborate with many like minded and innovative musicians, composers, artist’s and educators that make up the members of Zemog El Gallo Bueno. Reinaldo DeJesus, Chris Stromquist, Jackie Coleman, Benjamin Willis, Maria Christina Eisen, Bryan Vargas, Ted Nordlander, Juancho Herrera, Pablo Bencid and Matt Bauder.

Zemog El Gallo Bueno has performed at the Blue Note, Montreal Jazz Festival, Joe's Pub, Mass MoCA, Jazz Gallery, S.O.B’s, Lincoln Center, BAM, Chicago World Music Festival, Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, Barbes, Zebulon, Camaradas El Barrio amongst others.

Abraham Gomez-Delgado was awarded the New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Foundation, Meet The Composer MetLife Grant, USArtists International Award and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.

USA/PUERTO RICO: Bobby Sanabria's New CD "West Side Story Reimagined" Aids Puerto Rican Relief Effort

Bobby Sanabria's New CD "West Side Story Reimagined"   Aids Puerto Rican Relief Effort

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band “West Side Story Reimagined” (Jazzheads JH1231) Street Date: 07/20/2018 www.jazzheads.com   MUSICIANS:   Multiverse Big Band TRUMPETS Kevin Bryan - lead Shareef Clayton Max Darché Andrew Neesley SAXOPHONES David Dejesus- lead alto, soprano, flute Andrew Gould - alto, flute Peter Brainin- tenor, flute Yaacov Mayman - tenor, flute, clarinet Danny Rivera - baritone TROMBONES David Miller - lead Tim Sessions Armando Vergara Chris Washburne- bass FLUTE, PICCOLO Gabrielle Garo ELECTRIC VIOLIN Ben Sutin RHYTHM Bobby Sanabria - musical director, drums, whistle, lead vocals, coro Darwin Noguera - piano Leo Taversa - electric bass Oreste Abrantes - congas, itotele batá drum, coro Matthew Gonzalez - bongo/cencerro, primo bomba drum, Iyá bata, requinto pandereta, ganza, coro Takao Heisho - Cuban guiro macho, Dominican guira, Puerto Rican guicharro clave, okonkolo batá drum, maracas (Cuban and Venezuelan), shekere, tambourine, cuica, pandeiro, triangle, gong   Recorded live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in NYC, this exciting new reimagining is West Side Story like you’ve never heard it before as performed by the amazing multi-Grammy nominated 21 piece Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band. This set includes an accompanying 16 page booklet containing rare photographs of Maestro Leonard Bernstein, along with the timeless music of West Side Story featuring the rhythms of various Latin American countries with exciting breaking-down-the-wall instrumental big band arrangements all done through the lens of the Latin jazz continuum. It’s the most ambitious reimagining of the music I have ever heard!” - Jamie Bernstein Partial proceeds from this special commemorative set will be donated to the Jazz Foundation of America's Puerto Rico Relief Fund. The island has been completely devastated by hurricanes Irma and Maria and the government’s response has been less than adequate. What better way to help my ancestral homeland Puerto Rico and its people, than through the music of West Side Story Reimagined. - Bobby Sanabria   Upcoming Live Appearances July 26, 2018 Bobby Sanabria & Ascensión Newark Museum, Newark, NJ FREE!!!   July 31, 2018 Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band Co-op City Bronx, NY 7pm, FREE!!!   August 10, 2018 West Side Story Reimagined, Bernstein at 100 Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band Lincoln Center Out of Doors New York, NY 7pm

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USA/PUERTO RICO You Funky Devil: GRAMMY-winning drummer Henry Cole’s Bomba-Powered Reinvention of Salsa Classic, “El Diablo”

You Funky Devil: GRAMMY-winning drummer Henry Cole’s Bomba-Powered Reinvention of Salsa Classic, “El Diablo”

Exuberantly inventive drummer Henry Cole was listening to a favorite album one day, when a whole new arrangement for a classic song leaped into his head. The result was “El Diablo (Espiritu Burlon),” the first song from SIMPLE, the long-awaited follow up his 2012 debut, Roots Before Branches.

The new song, like a lost Latin track off Maggot Brain, embraces Cole’s vision for 21st-century Puerto Rican music, encompassing a wide range of global influences from folkloric rhythms...

Drummer Henry Cole transforms the music scene one beat at a time. Described as “the future of drumming,” (Bongohead) Cole leads Villa Locura with wide musical range, grace and sheer power behind the drum kit. A Puerto Rico native and a current resident of New York, he has toured throughout the globe, performing in the U.S., 

Europe, Mexico, Central America, Korea and Japan. He combines various musical influences - Puerto Rican folklore, funk and R&B, jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms – creating his own unique genre that bridges the traditional with the contemporary. Henry's main goal is to see music as “One World,” a space beyond styles, reaching out to audiences of all kinds with a message of determination and unity. By the end, Henry Cole will “have made you smile, made you think, surprised you, and – most of all – made you want to dance” (JamBands).

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USA/PUERTO RICO: Fernando Garcia CD Release Show For "Guasabara Puerto Rico" Sat., March 10th 9pm @ Teatro Latea

Fernando García Band: Gusábara Puerto Rico - CD Release Concert Dear friends,   We are writing to share some exciting news! Puerto Rican drummer, composer, and bandleader plans to release his third album this year. It showcases his talents as a drummer and composer, as well as his ability to unite an amazing group of energetic musicians from the New York City Latin-Jazz scene. It also features the Grammy-nominated and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón. "Puerto Rico native García organically blends folkloric Bomba rhythms and Latin jazz in a myriad of satisfying ways. His simpático crew of youngbloods push the envelope on García's third album as a leader and debut for ZOHO music." - Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times “Fernando has put together a very focused and cohesive recording, surrounded by a talented group of young musicians. The music is rhythmically inventive and extremely smart, built on the rock soliddrumming by the leader. In all a very well rounded album, which I hope you enjoy listening to as much as I did.” - Miguel Zenón The concert will be 9 pm at Teatro Latea: 107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002 Cover: $15 We hope to see you there! Warm regards, Fernando García Drummer, Composer, Bandleader

Teatro Latea

www.fernandogarciamusic.com

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USA/PUERTO RICO: Free video from the historic "Salsa Meets Jazz" Benefit for Puerto Rico

Free video from the historic "Salsa Meets Jazz" Benefit for Puerto Rico

An assembly of Jazz and Salsa greats got together to revive the great and much-missed tradition of the Monday night "Salsa Meets Jazz" series that ran for decades at the old Village Gate in New York's Greenwich Village. Paquito D'Rivera...Randy Brecker...Candido...salsa greats Larry Harlow, Gerardo Contino and Eddie Montalvo...David Amram...Antoinette Montague...Valerie Capers…the poets Felipe Luciano and Mariposa...and Bobby Sanabria and his multi-Grammy nominated 19 piece Multiverse Big Band were just some of the all-stat contributors.             You missed it - tickets for the benefit sold out fast at $100 a piece - but seven clips from the show are available for free viewing here: Videos:https://www.jazzonthetube.com/salsa-meets-jazz-for-puerto-rico/ Ken McCarthy  Jazz on the Tube

USA/PUERTO RICO: SAMMY FIGUEROA & His Latin Jazz Explosion Appearing at SMOKE Wednesday December 13th 7 PM, 9 PM, 10:30 PM

SAMMY FIGUEROA
& His Latin Jazz Explosion

Back by popular demand! ONE NIGHT ONLY! Wednesday December 13th SMOKE JAZZ CLUB 7 PM, 9 PM, 10:30 PM $15 music charge Tickets & Info Reservations: 212 864 6662

Back in September Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion played Smoke Jazz Club on the Upper West Side for the first time.  Sammy’s special brand of sophisticated Latin jazz mixed with his ebullient sense of humor made the evening a wonderful success. For those who missed the show and for those who came and loved it there’s another opportunity to experience Sammy and his band in this great venue.  Plan on coming for dinner -- Smoke has a great kitchen. The Jazz Foundation of America’s Puerto Rico fund has been helping many musicians who have lost their income and their homes.  Sammy was born in the Bronx and raised in Puerto Rico and Hurricane Maria’s aftermath has a been a time of great concern to him, his family and his fellow musicians on the island.  On this evening Sammy will offer an autographed CD to all who donate $25 or more.  A representative from JFA will be present to receive pledges and donations. Sammy will be joined onstage by two brilliant Venezuelan virtuosos Silvano Monasterios (piano) and Gabriel Vivas (bass), Chilean sax master Anibal Rojas, Cuban trumpetist Dennis Hernandez and Puerto Rican drummer Nomar Negroni

The Jazz Foundation of America’s Puerto Rico fund has been helping many musicians who have lost their income and their homes. Born in the Bronx and raised in Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria’s aftermath has been of great concern to Sammy, his family and his fellow musicians on the island. Sammy will be fund-raising for the JFA during the show and will offer an autographed CD to all who donate $25 or more.  A representative from the Jazz Foundation will be present to receive pledges and donations.

www.sammyfigueroa.com Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/sammy.figueroa1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SammyFigMusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sammyfigueroamusic/ A video:  Sammy Figueroa "Cuco & Olga"

USA/ Puerto Rico: Nestor Torres A Holiday Jam Session Available Now

Nestor Torres A Holiday Jam Session Available Now

For quite a few years, every time the Holidays came around, my aunt Clara would always ask me when I was going to do a record of Christmas Carols. Finally, one Sunday afternoon I called some of my musician friends and asked them to come to the home studio of another friend for a Holiday Jam Session. I called the tunes on the spot and recorded most of them in one take. No arrangements, no overdubs, no pre-production; only a spontaneous expression of love of family and friends through familiar, timeless songs. After many year of sharing these songs only with family and friends, I’ve decided to share this private recording with all of you. Nestor Torres Available From iTunes Amazon.com

NESTOR TORRES UNPLUGGED: A HOLIDAY JAM SESSION

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CROWDFUNDING: Jazz and Bossa Radio Funding Campaign

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Papo Vazquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours-Oasis (2012)

Beware!!! Upon listening to “Oasis”, the latest musical offering from Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours, your musical allegiance will be stolen!

Vázquez, a native of Philadelphia, PA, is a 35 year veteran in the Latin and Jazz genres. An 2011 NEA Latino Master, and 2008 Grammy nominee, Vazquez continues his forward thrust maintaining his Afro-Caribbean roots. There is no denying that the Mighty Pirates Troubadours are as cohesive a musical unit as any other on the scene today.
“Oasis”, showcases the musical compositions, and orchestrations, of Vazquez. The production includes such talents as Regina Carter (Oasis), Wynton Marsalis (Verdura de Apio [The Real McCoy], San Juan de la Maguana, and Plena Drumline ) and Akua Dixon’s Quartette Indigo (Oasis, Redemption, and Igor’s Mail).

The Mighty Pirates Troubadours are all leaders in their own right. First band mate, Willie Williams, on tenor sax, a native of Philadelphia, has been with the band over 20 years. Accompanying Vazquez and Williams are, Dezron Douglas, on bass, Alvester Garnett, on drums, Anthony Carrillo and Carlos Maldonado, on percussion, and the last member to join the band, pianist, Rick Germanson.

Vazquez delves into the rhythms of his native Puerto Rico, such as Bomba Rule, Plena, Bomba Hoyo de Mula, and Bomba Yuba, as well as Merengue, which hails from the Dominican Republic. His use of these rhythms serves as the foundation for his colorful jazz orchestrations.

The Mighty Pirates Troubadours currently have six CD recordings. The last CD, Marooned/Aislado, was a NARAS 2009 Grammy nominee for Best Latin Jazz Recording. The prior CD, From the Badlands, was considered one of 2007’s 10 Best Latin CDs by New York Newsday, as well as one of All About Jazz’s 2008 “Best Latin Jazz Releases”.

All of the music featured on Oasis, is composed and orchestrated by Papo Vazquez. So, brace yourselves, ‘cause these pirates come armed for a musical assault!

For more information visit: www.papovazquez.com
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