The 38th edition of International Jazz Plaza Festival will have among its great activities a concert in honor of two classics of Cuban music: Chano Pozo and Juan Formell.
The show, titled Mass for Chano Pozo, will be presented starting at 6:00 pm on January 24 at Trillo Park, in the Havana neighborhood of Key West, and will include performances by the orchestra The Van Vanthe Cuban percussionist based in the United States, Pedrito Martínez, and a group of special guests, according to a report from the Prensa Latina (PL) agency.
“Mass for Chano Pozo and Juan Formell”: January 24 at 6pm in Trillo Park in Key West. One of the essential concerts of the 38 International Jazz Plaza Festival 2023. https://t.co/f3tE88wDOn#PlazaCulturalDistrict #CubaIsCulture #CubaIsLove #CubaForPeace pic.twitter.com/UgmuHKu13T
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Martínez won the Thelonious Monk Award for Percussion in Washington DC and is one of the founding members of the band Yerba Buena. his album The Pedrito Martinez Group It deserved, among other awards, a Grammy Award nomination, adds the publication.
The jazz festival in Cuba will be from January 22 to 29, and will have among its attractions the intervention of national and foreign musicians, who will offer recitals in various community spaces in Havana and Santiago de Cuba, the other venue for the event.
The Organizing Committee, headed by the National Music Award winner (2012), Bobby Carcasés, announced that Los Muñequitos de Matanzas will perform in the Santiago communities of Martí and Moncada on January 27, and in the neighborhood of Santa Úrsula on the 29th. Giraldo Piloto and Klimax, Experimental Jazz, among other groups, will be on Boulevard del Parque Dolores.
PL adds that during a meeting with the press, the president of the Festival Organizing Committee, Víctor Rodríguez, stressed that the event will be a success despite the difficulties the country is going through.
The also director of the National Center for Popular Music highlighted the participation of important Cuban musicians and from more than 15 nations such as Argentina, Brazil, Spain, and Mexico. But the United States will be the most represented.
The jazz event will have more than a hundred concerts on eleven stages and will host a group of Cuban musicians living in other nations who will travel to Cuba to exhibit their art.
In Havana, the concerts will have as venues the National, Martí, América, Lázaro Peña theaters, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Bertolt Brecht Cultural Center, the Cuba Pavilion, the Plaza House of Culture, the Cuban Art Factory and the Pink Hall of the Tropical.
