{"id":2158,"date":"2014-12-12T07:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2016-12-04T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T14:07:09","slug":"manuel-valera-new-cuban-express-november-7-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Valera New Cuban Express – November 7, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manuel Valera New Cuban Express –\u00a0 Bronx Museum of the Arts\u00a0 –\u00a0 November 7, 2014<\/p>\n

One more new venue for me, hooray for the Bronx.\u00a0 I’d earlier caught a permutation of parts of this combo under Yosvanny Terry’s leadership; here the gig was Valera’s (who actually remembered me sketching him back in 2012).\u00a0 The Cuban jazz angle was enough to rope me in, but the repertoire had a more wide-ranging complexity.\u00a0 There was an extended song-cycle segment “Marti en Nueva York” based on Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed’s poetry (yes, the Cuban revolutionary was also a poet and journalist, and lived for a time in NYC) that brought in the vocalist Sof\u00eda Rei.\u00a0 It was not necessary to understand a word of Spanish to have a robust appreciation of this moving work.\u00a0 It was fun to watch the percussion interplay between Calvaire and Herrera; one would suggest a figure, and it would then bounce back and forth, embellished, as their grins widened.<\/p>\n

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Manuel Valera<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sofia Rei<\/p><\/div>\n

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Luques Curtis<\/p><\/div>\n

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Obed Calvaire<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yosvanny Terry<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tom Guarna<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mauricio Herrera<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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