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'El Maestro' Irving Flores Readies Thrilling Afro-cuban Jazz Sextet Project With Giovanni Hidalgo & Horacio “El Negro” Hernández; 'Armando Mi Conga' Arrives August 26
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1888 Media
Acclaimed pianist, composer, and arranger Irving Flores is set to release his most ambitious project to date, ;Armando Mi Conga (Amor de Flores Productions), available on CD and all streaming platforms beginning August 26, 2025. A vibrant celebration of Latin Jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz, the 9-song album blends virtuosity with soul — and features an all-star lineup of Grammy-winning legends. “This is a love letter to Latin America,” says Flores. “It’s my journey and a tribute to the rhythms that ...
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'El Trio - Live In Italy' with John Beasley, José Armando Gola, Horacio El Negro Hernández available on January 19, 2024 on Challenge Records
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Vivo Musique Internationale
El Trio Live in Italy featuring John Beasley on piano, José Armando Gola on double bass and Horacio El Negro Hernández on drums. “El Trio touring in Italy in the summer of 2022 is about ‘eat, music, love’.” Three friends on stage letting the music play them. “To our godfather Chucho Valdés who has inspired each of us, given us a helping hand along the way, and put us up on stage alongside him. We are eternally grateful.” Street Date: ...
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Marcus Shelby Places Suite Exploring Negro League Baseball At The Heart Of "Transitions," Set For June 7 Release By MSO Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Bassist, composer, and bandleader Marcus Shelby brings together three of his greatest passions—African-American history, baseball, and big-band jazz—on Transitions, the latest work by his 15-piece Marcus Shelby Orchestra, set for a June 7 release on his own MSO Records. While the album offers Shelby’s lush arrangements of classic tunes by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, and Cole Porter, its centerpiece “Black Ball: The Negro Leagues and the Blues” is an original four-part suite inspired by the history of Negro League Baseball. ...
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Fahir Atakoglu's "Live At Umbria Jazz" Featuring Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez & Alain Caron
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Fahir Atakoğlu's Live at Umbria Jazz Featuring Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez and Alain Caron Release Date: January 19, 2016 New 2016 Release Integrates Cuban Rhythms & Middle Eastern Melodies—World Tour Planned Fahir Atakoğlu releases his latest CD Live at Umbria Jazz (Far & Here label) on January 19, which is the 17th album in Fahir's vast catalogue of music with plans for a 2016 world tour underway. Atakoğlu has worked to blend his own native music ...
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David Ryshpan & Gitanjali Jain Serrano Launch Alicuanta On Nov 27, 2014
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David Ryshpan
Alicuanta: signifying a quantity or part that does not fit into its larger whole evenly or equally. Alicuanta is a staged song cycle set to the texts of Mexican poet Francisco Serrano, co-composed by pianist David Ryshpan and vocalist Gitanjali Jain Serrano. Through poetry, music, dance and visual elements, Alicuanta is an examination of the memory of an ancestor; an attempt to find peace within the tumultuous history of 1920s Mexico. The legacy explored is that of the General Francisco ...
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Stew & the Negro Problem Finish First Album Since Tony-Winning 'Passing Strange'
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conqueroo
Making It, due out January 24 through Redeye Distribution, revisits joy of being in a band for Stew and Heidi Rodewald NEW YORK, N.Y.—"It's a love and pain thing, a no one can explain thing, it's simply complicated folks," goes a line from “Curse," one of the central pieces on Making It, not only the new album by the Negro Problem, but the first collection of new songs by the collaborative partnership that is Stew and Heidi Rodewald since Passing ...
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The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Presents the 2011 Annual Benefit Concert starring Top 10 Billboard Jazz Veteran Alfonzo Blackwell
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One Creative Publicist & Management
Saturday, September 17th at 6pm is the date to save for an evening of jazz presented by the United Negro College Fund's (UNCF) annual benefit concert event. This year's musical guess star is veteran jazz saxophonist Alfonzo Blackwell. The event is held annually to sponsor young adult's college education from the New Jersey area. Tickets are on sale now. Please contact the New Jersey region chapter of the UNCF at (973) 642-1955 or ashley.lemon@uncf.org The event will feature a lot ...
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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig (2010)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Sometimes, the history of music is full of surprises. Another way of looking at it: I'm surprised by my own ignorance. When I think of the South and old-time music, the blues, whites, and blacks, I tend to think of the musics as being mostly separated, with old-time music being a purely white phenomenon while the obvious African influence makes the blues a black specialty. Except that 'obvious' influences don't necessarily lock the outcomes into the simplest ...
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Stew & The Negro Problem Back on the Road
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conqueroo
STEW & THE NEGRO PROBLEM RETURN TO ROCK: BAND EMBARKS ON FIRST NATIONAL TOUR IN SIX YEARS FOLLOWING STEW AND HEIDI RODEWALD'S TONY-WINNING BROADWAY SHOW PASSING STRANGE
Kicking off on October 20 at Brooklyn Academy of Music, tour spans band's hometown Los Angeles plus Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Davis and Ann Arbor
Los Angeles, CA: First there was the Negro Problem, a band that rose through the ranks of L.A.'s indie scene in the late '90s and early aughts. ...
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Stew & the Negro Problem Are Back on the Road
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conqueroo
Kicking off on October 20 at Brooklyn Academy of Music, tour spans band's hometown Los Angeles plus Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Davis and Ann Arbor LOS ANGELES Calif.—First there was the Negro Problem, a band that rose through the ranks of L.A.'s indie scene in the late '90s and early aughts. Deemed “L.A.'s best band" by the L.A. Weekly in 1992, the unit—propelled by Stew and Heidi Rodewald—recorded three critically acclaimed albums: Post Minstrel Syndrome (1997), Joys & Concerns ...
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From: Verses Under My ShadowBy Ezequiel "El Negro" Serrano
