Yosvany Terry - The Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, December 29, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
A Building Bridges Special
The Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz
with
Yosvany Terry, Composer, Educator, Musician
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The music of acclaimed Cuban composer and saxophonist Yosvany
Terry provides an unmistakable milestone in the often illusive unfolding
of modern Jazz - Black classical music. He creates a synthesis that
links past and present influences of Afro-Cuban and Caribbean Jazz
with Cuban popular music. Terry brings the Arara’ culture of West
African and Cuba to life, incorporating American Jazz traditions with
his own Afro-Cuban roots to produce compositions and solo work that
flow from the rhythmic and hard driving avant-garde to sweet sounding
lyricism.