Dafnis Prieto & His Latin Jazz Quartet To Perform At Wooster School
Dafnis Prieto & His Latin Jazz Quartet To Perform At Wooster School
DANBURY â Wooster Jazz Society invites the public in welcoming the innovative Cuban drummer and composer Dafnis Prieto and his Latin Jazz quartet for a concert on Friday, May 13.
The concert will begin at 8 pm and will be in the Schwartz Reception Center at Wooster School, 91 Miry Brook Road. Tickets are $30 for adults, with free admission for students.
The line-up for the evening features Mr Dafnis Prieto on drums, fellow Cuban Yosvany Terry on sax, Venezuelan Luis Perdomo on piano, and Hans Glawischnig on bass (an Austrian who has embraced all things Latin). Each musician is a driving force on the Cuban and Latin jazz scene and bandleaders in their own right.
Dafnis Prieto was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. Labeled a âmusical asteroidâ by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times, his talent was apparent from an early age, and he was selected to attend the School of Fine Arts and later continued at the National School of Music in Havana, receiving a thorough classical education and ever broadening knowledge of Afro-Cuban music, jazz and world music. Even before completing his formal education, he began to tour Europe with jazz ensembles, and word of his creativity, vitality, innovation and sparkle spread among musicians.
Soon players from Eddie Palmieri to Bryan Lynch to Henry Threadgill started beating the bushes to find ways to play with him and keep him in the US. He has performed with some of the world greatest jazz artists, including Jane Bunnett & Spirit of Havana in Canada and the US, Henry Threadgill, Zooid and Make a Move, Eddie Palmieriâs Afro-Caribbean Jazz Orchestra, Chico Oâ Farril & The Afro-Cuban Big Band, Dave Samuels & The Caribbean Jazz Project, Michel Camilo Trio, Chucho Valdez Quartet and the World Economic Forum with Branford Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, and Arturo Sandoval.
Mr Prieto brought the house down at Wooster Jazz three years ago when he performed with Brian Lynch and Cuban bassist John Benitez. Jaws dropped and smiles and cheers erupted as he played stunningly complicated, precise riffs, filled with rhythmic and textural surprises.
The Dafnis Prieto Quintet has been drawing rave reviews for its vitality.
For additional information or to reserve tickets call 830-3964 or 830-3963.