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The Women's Club of Glen Ridge v 219 Ridgewood Avenue v Glen Ridge, New Jersey v 973-748-5459
International
Listen, Watch and Move
to
Latin Jazz
Friday, September 30th 8 p.m.
The International Department of the Women’s Club of Glen Ridge welcomes you to a night of Latin American music and dance at the Club House.
Visiting artists will be world renowned jazz pianist and composer, Roger Davidson (bio), Argentine born bassist Pablo Aslan (bio) and Raul Jaurena (bio) on the bandoneon.
Through the years, almost every country in Latin America and every island in the Caribbean have developed a unique musical culture. Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico in particular have had the most significant influences on music in the United States. Latin rhythms and dances like the habanera and bolero from Cuba, the samba and bossa nova from Brazil, the tango from Argentina and the mariachi from Mexico have entranced and infatuated fans in the United States.
Roger, Pablo and Raul will introduce us to the sounds of Latin music from Cuba to Argentina to Brazil. Their love of tango and Brazilian music will rock the house as we learn about the roots and traditions within the continent’s diverse musical culture.
Guests will have an opportunity to savor Latin food, taste wine and beer from the region, try out the tango and, for the young at heart, salsa the night away.
For almost two decades Argentine born bassist and producer Pablo Aslan has been a leading figure in the tango revival, with work that is both innovative and solidly rooted in the tradition. His CD “Avantango” (Zoho Music) was selected as one of the Best Albums of the Year, Critics Choice 2004 by JAZZIZ magazine. His 2010 CD "Tango Grill" recorded in Buenos Aires, was nominated for both a Latin Grammy and a Grammy Award. His most recent CD is a collaboration with legendary Cuban saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, titled "Tango Jazz: Live at Jazz @ Lincoln Center". He has produced a dozen recordings for the Soundbrush Records label, and performed and recorded with artist such as Shakira, Yo Yo Ma, Lalo Schifrin, Joe Lovano and the Philadelphia Orchestra. An active educator and lecturer, Pablo has been a featured artist of the Lincoln Center Institute since 1998 bringing tango performances to hundreds of children and educators in the New York area. He was a member of the Teaching Artist's Collaborative of the Weill Music Institute form 2008 to 2010. He has conducted music workshops at several universities throughout the US, and was Coca Cola Artist in Residence at Emory University in 2008.
Durante mas de dos décadas, el bajista y productor argentino Pablo Aslan ha sido una figura destacada en el renacimiento del tango, con un trabajo que es a la vez innovador y sólidamente enraizado en la tradición. Su CD “Tango Grill”, grabado en Buenos Aires, fue nominado para un Grammy Latino 2010 y un Premio Grammy. Su más reciente CD es una colaboración con el legendario saxofonista cubano Paquito D'Rivera, titulado "Jazz Tango: Live at Jazz @ Lincoln Center". Su CD "Avantango" (Zoho Music) fue seleccionado como uno de los mejores Discos del Año, "Elección de la Crítica” en 2004 por la revista JAZZIZ.
Aslan ha producido una docena de grabaciones para el sello Soundbrush Records, y tocado y grabado con artistas como Shakira, Yo Yo Ma, Lalo Schifrin, Joe Lovano, Pablo Ziegler, y la Orquesta de Filadelfia. Como educador y conferenciante, Pablo ha sido parte del Instituto Lincoln Center desde 1998 trayendo espectáculos de tango a cientos de niños y educadores en el área de Nueva York. Fue miembro del Weill Music Institue de 2008 a 2010. Ha dirigido talleres de música en varias universidades a lo largo de los EE.UU., y fue Coca Cola Artista en Residencia en la Universidad de Emory en 2008.
Roger Davidson was born in Paris in 1952 to a French mother and an American father. He started playing piano on his own at 4, and taking violin lessons at 8. Although he taught himself how to read and write music, Davidson learned to play through improvising, a practice that has served him well as a jazz pianist. While a choral conducting student at Westminster College he also began writing choral music, which soon bloomed into the expression of a personal mission. In 2000, he founded the Society for Universal Sacred Music “with the mission of creating a repertoire of music to express the unity of God and especially His unconditional love for all humanity.” Since then, the Society, has become a global organization which has already commissioned new works and organized festivals and performances around the world.
As a composer of classical and sacred music, his major works include “Mandala,” an orchestral work, was a finalist in the 1983 St. Paul Chamber Orchestra composers’ competition. The work was later recorded on the CD Mandala (MMC Recordings) that features soloists Richard Stolzman and Jeffrey Silberschlag. In 1982 he wrote “Unispace” (for choir, organ, piano, and percussion), inspired by a United Nations conference of the same name. Unispace was performed in major cities as a benefit for UNICEF. His most recent program, in January 2008, was the premiere in Carnegie Hall of “Prayer for Peace” for jazz trio and orchestra, with the Stamford Symphony, Eckhart Preu, conductor, David Finck on bass and David Ratajczak on drums.
Soundbrush Records, the label Davidson founded in 1997, has grown both in breadth and depth. In his various capacities as the label’s main artist, producer and A&R man, Davidson has developed an impressive roster of hand-picked musicians from around the world and a broad, diverse catalogue that already has won the label a Latin Grammy. His own recordings of original jazz, brazilian, tango and other forms of latin music have been praised for their originality and for their idiomatic faithfulness to each genre.
Davidson’s most recent release is “On the Road of Life,” a collaboration with contemporary klezmer master Frank London, featuring virtuoso clarinetist Andy Statman and master accordionist and cimbalom player Joshua Horowitz.
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