featuring PONCHO SANCHEZ & HIS LATIN JAZZ BAND w/ · PDF fileour time and his body of work...
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“As Elvis is to rock and James Brown is to soul, Poncho Sanchez is to salsa… particularly the congas.” LA TIMES OLÉ is like a lost John Coltrane album. Recorded for Atlantic—in between his Africa/ Brass album sessions—the album was overlooked by critics when Impulse heralded Trane’s debut album for their label. Coltrane had taken to his OLÉ sessions with the same creativity that informed his later albums. In fact, All About Jazz trumps that recording as “one of the greatest transitional albums of all times. It is essential.” Working with a larger group format (a septet), Coltrane let his playing stretch long and out. Like Miles’ earlier Sketches of Spain, OLÉ explores the music of the Iberian Peninsula. Instead of flamenco flourishes, Coltrane ground his compostions with the Eastern-influenced modes of Islamic Spain, allowing the mystical sounds of the North African Moors to pulse and intensify the performances. The original, expansive, and now “essential,” OLÉ presents a perfect setting for PONCHO SANCHEZ & HIS LATIN BAND with JAMES CARTER to interpret the wider realm of Coltrane’s music. Sanchez is respected as one of the top American percussionists of our time and his body of work within the unique juncture between Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz has been duly Grammy-awarded. Sanchez has created the OLÉ COLTRANE program to exhibit the spiritual heat, passion, and earthy sensuality he finds in Trane’s work, ultimately the performances should send audiences deep into their Coltrane, to discover for themselves Trane’s emotional virtousity he first set down in 1961. OLÉCOLTRANE featuring PONCHO SANCHEZ & HIS LATIN JAZZ BAND w/ SPECIAL GUEST JAMES CARTER Latin interpretations of the music of JOHN COLTRANE “Call it Latin, jazz, buga-loo, jazz-funk or whatever, but master conguero Poncho Sanchez has perfected the unions of Afro- Cuban poly-rhythms and jazz melodies.” JAZZ SERIES REVIEW “{James Carter is] The complete musician, a technician with no apparent limits and a poet of deep sensibility.” KENNY GARRETT KENNY GARRETT THE KURLAND AGENCY 617-254-0007 [email protected] www.thekurlandagency.com
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“As Elvis is to rock and James Brown is to soul, Poncho Sanchez is to salsa…particularly the congas.”
LA TIMES
OLÉ is like a lost John Coltrane album. Recorded for Atlantic —in between his Africa/Brass album sessions —the album was overlooked by critics when Impulse heralded Trane’s debut album for their label. Coltrane had taken to his OLÉ sessions with the same creativity that informed his later albums. In fact, All About Jazz trumps that recording as “one of the greatest transitional albums of all times. It is essential.”
Working with a larger group format (a septet), Coltrane let his playing stretch long and out. Like Miles’ earlier Sketches of Spain, OLÉ explores the music of the Iberian Peninsula. Instead of flamenco flourishes, Coltrane ground his compostions with the Eastern-influenced modes of Islamic Spain, allowing the mystical sounds of the North African Moors to pulse and intensify the performances.
The original, expansive, and now “essential,” OLÉ presents a perfect setting for PONCHO SANCHEZ & HIS LATIN BAND with JAMES CARTER to interpret the wider realm of Coltrane’s music. Sanchez is respected as one of the top American percussionists of our time and his body of work within the unique juncture between Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz has been duly Grammy-awarded. Sanchez has created the OLÉ COLTRANE program to exhibit the spiritual heat, passion, and earthy sensuality he finds in Trane’s work, ultimately the performances should send audiences deep into their Coltrane, to discover for themselves Trane’s emotional virtousity he first set down in 1961.
Representation: TED KURLAND ASSOCIATES 173 BRIGHTON AVE, BOSTON MA 02134 p/617-254-0007 f/617-782-3577 [email protected] www.tedkurland.com
OLÉCOLTRANEfeaturing
PONCHOSANCHEZ& HIS LATINJAZZ BANDw/ SPECIAL GUEST
JAMES CARTER
Latin interpretations of the music of
JOHN COLTRANE “Call it Latin, jazz, buga-loo, jazz-funk or
whatever, but master conguero Poncho
Sanchez has perfected the unions of Afro-
Cuban poly-rhythms and jazz melodies.”
JAZZ SERIES REVIEW
“{James Carter is] The complete musician, a technician with no
apparent limits and a poet of deep sensibility.” DETROIT NEWS
KENNY GARRETT
KENNY GARRETT
THE KURLAND AGENCY 617-254-0007 [email protected] www.thekurlandagency.com
