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When the Harvard Jazz Band presents an evening entitled “Jazz With a Latin Tinge” on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m., featuring guest artists Bobby Sanabria and Brian Lynch, Lowell Lecture Hall will come alive with a medley of traditions. Percussionist Sanabria and trumpeter Lynch have each made a distinctive mark on the jazz community. The two share a passion for the fusion of jazz and Latin motifs, and have performed together at a variety of venues. This motivating theme of fusion is consistent with the 2006-2007 jazz band’s exploration...
...That fancy diploma won’t get them far there, but those “oral techniques” they picked up at a cappella retreats can be pretty valuable in the showers. Makes sense. Who wouldn’t expect a little extra sauciness from a vocal percussionist...
...their efforts to bring their unusual music to a University-wide audience. I JUST WANT TO BANG ON THE DRUM Danielle R. Lehle ’07, a member of Music for Percussion, is no stranger to the stage. A member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and a percussionist since the age of 12, Lehle began playing percussion pieces with three of her classmates this spring in “Music 93r: Supervised Reading and Research.” “We’re all percussionists from HRO; we’re all juniors,” says...
...look no further than the archived records at Harvard’s radio station in the basement of Pennypacker. On the cover of “Today,” the band’s second full-length, someone has scrawled in Bic pen: “Damon, the percussionist on this recording, gave a brilliant and cogent Duchamp presentation in the Jameson seminar last year.” It’s signed by someone named Vodka. Krukowski, for one, takes his duel life—and the above comment—in stride...
DIED. RAY BARRETTO, 76, Grammy-winning "godfather" of Latin jazz; in Hackensack, N.J. Renowned for integrating the conga into jazz, he decided to become a musician after hearing a Dizzy Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...