Thursday, April 21, 2016
Kind of Purple: Jazz Musicians On Prince
Kind of Purple: Jazz Musicians On Prince: Kind of Purple: Jazz Musicians On Prince jazz article by Kurt Gottschalk, published on April 21, 2016 at All About Jazz. Find more Interviews articles
Dialogues in Cuban Art- A Symposium between Cuban and Cuban American artists from Havana and Miami.
By: Dialogues in Cuban Art and Perez Art Museum
Dialogues in Cuban Art is a two day symposium that explores the intellectual exchanges between Cuban and Cuban-American artists, curators and cultural workers from Havana and Miami. Some of the ideas guiding this convening will investigate emergent transnational relations between Cuban and Cuban American artists; explore an understanding of Cuban art beyond nation and diaspora; and address how opportunities for mutual understanding shape and inform cultural production. All three panel discussions will be simultaneously interpreted from English to Spanish.
Miami Program
Dialogues in Cuban Art is a two day symposium that explores the intellectual exchanges between Cuban and Cuban-American artists, curators and cultural workers from Havana and Miami. Some of the ideas guiding this convening will investigate emergent transnational relations between Cuban and Cuban American artists; explore an understanding of Cuban art beyond nation and diaspora; and address how opportunities for mutual understanding shape and inform cultural production. All three panel discussions will be simultaneously interpreted from English to Spanish.
Miami Program
PAMM: Day 1
Panel 1 – Introduction about the project: Elizabeth Cerejido
Shifting Perceptions, Transnational Movements between Miami and Havana
Panelists: Sandra Ramos, Alexandre Arrechea, Glexis Novoa, Emilio Pérez. Moderator: Elizabeth Cerejido
Panel 2 – Mapping the Development of Cuban Art in Miami: Private Consumption, Public Circulation
Panelists: Ramón Cernuda, Fred Snitzer, Peter Menéndez, Howard Farber, Moderator: Juan Martínez
Dialogues: Cuban and Cuban-American Artists in Conversation: Part 1
Humberto Díaz
Bert Rodríguez
Reynier Leyva Novo
Marcos Valella
Juana Valdés
Ruben Millares
Felipe Dulzaides
Wilfredo Prieto
Moderator: Rene Morales (Curator, PAMM)
PAMM: Day 2
El arte cubano a través del lente institucional: desde lo oficial a lo alternativo
Aylet Ojeda (Curator, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)
Ibis Hernández Abascal (Curator, Centro Wifredo Lam and part of curatorial team of the Havana Biennial)
Onedys Calvo (Curator, Factoría Habana)
Nahela Hechevarría (Curator, Contemporary Art, Casa de las Américas)
Sandra Ceballos, (Founder, Director, Espacio Aglutinador)
Moderator: Eugenio Valdés Figueroa (Director, CIFO)
Dialogues: Cuban and Cuban-American Artists in Conversation: Part 2
Glenda León
Ernesto Leal
Inti Hernández
Yornel Martínez
Leyden Rodríguez Casanova
Lázaro Saavedra
Manny Prieres
Moderator: Yuneikys Villalonga
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Art exhibit Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba. Past exhibition curated by scholar Alejandro de la Fuente.
Art exhibit Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba. Past exhibition curated by Alejandro de la Fuente.
Locations:
Galeria Universal, Santiago de Cuba (April-
May 2013); Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales,
Havana (August 3-31, 2013). New York City (Spring 2014), San Francisco (Fall 2014)
and Cambridge, MA (Spring 2015).
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Musicabana Festival. May 5-8, 2016. Habana, Cuba. Line-Up
Carlinhos Brown, Brazil
Sean Paul, Jamaica
Pablo Milanés, Cuba
Carlos Varela, Cuba
Mayra Andrade, Cape Verde
Habana D' Primera, Cuba
Yoruba Andabo, Cuba
Juana Bacallao y Tiembla Tierra, Cuba
Ibeyi, France/Cuba
Interactivo, Cuba
Kelvis Ochoa, Cuba
Adonis y Osaín del Monte, Cuba
Pedrito Martínez, Cuba
Orquesta Aragón, Cuba
Los Van Van, Cuba
And more...
For more info, please visit: Musicabana Festival
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Habana Dreams. Pedrito Martinez's forthcoming album. by Billboard.
The Cuban percussionist and singer trades riffs with the salsa star on the first single from Martinez’s Habana Dreams album.
The international spotlight that was on the Rolling Stones recent concert in Havana left Cuban groups in the shadows. And lately, with American artists in something of a race to perform on the island, Cuban musicians have been largely left out of the buzzing conversation about music in Cuba; something that’s both ironic and just wrong.
Habana Dreams, the new album (June 10, Motema Music) from percussionist and singer Pedrito Martinez, who performed with his band at a party for the Stones in Havana last week, should bring some deserved attention back to the artists from the Caribbean musical superpower, who were rocking before rock-and-roll was born, and who throughout the decades have continued to stage musical revolutions no matter what the political climate.
Today, exclusively on Billboard, we premiere the first single from Habana Dreams, “Compa Galletano,” featuring Ruben Blades.
Martinez has lived in the New York City area since 1998. He was a member of the innovative Latin fusion band Yerba Buena, and, after years playing with his own band at a small Cuban restaurant in Manhattan, he’s recently become a sort of Cuban music ambassador, performing around the city as well as, increasingly, on tour. This spring he’ll appear at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, as well as at Havana’s Musicabana Festival, among other dates. Habana Dreams was recorded in Havana with top Cuban musicians and other special guests including Blades, in addition to the members of his Pedrito Martinez group.
The record marks a homecoming, although Martinez has never strayed from his Cuban musical and spiritual roots, staying true to sacred Afro-Cuban traditions as well as Cuban popular forms including the ritually-derived rumba, and the Latin-jazz infused timba, contemporary Cuba’s polyrythmic dance music style. In the 1990s, timba became known abroad as Cuba’s answer to salsa, but, like other contemporary Cuban sounds, it failed to make a commercial impact in the United States. On this album, Martinez suggests it’s time to take another listen.
Ruben Blades, the international star who was part of the creation of salsa in New York in the 1970s, became a fan of Martinez, attending his shows, and now taking on the role of what the liner notes call a “godfather” of the Habana Dreams album. Blades, of course, is no stranger to Cuban music’s historical influence and its fundamental role as the base of that urban New York sound that became known as salsa, or to Cuba’s contemporary players. The Panamanian singer-songwriter included his version of the song “Muevate,” by Juan Formell, the founder of leading Cuban contemporary dance band Los Van Van, on his 1985 album Escenas; through the years he shared international stages with Van Van in an era when most U.S.-based Latin music stars, influenced by what was considered politically correct in Miami, publicly avoided associations with the island.
“Compa Galletano” has roots in traditional rumba, and lyrics sung by Martinez in the African Yoruba language, as well as in Spanish. Blades puts a time code on the song when he riffs that “el mundo espera que se levanta el bloqueo” (“the world waits for the embargo to be lifted.”) On the track, Martinez and Blades joyfully improvise, musicians spread out with conversations between piano and conga. Synth chords, an American-influenced hallmark of the contemporary Cuban sound, make an appearance, as do handclaps.
Debuting his new album with a single that clocks over six minutes, it’s obvious that Martinez is not making a play for mainstream Latin radio. With “Compa Galletano” and the Habana Dreams album, he’s doing what comes naturally -- putting the spotlight on contemporary Cuban music.
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