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AC Timba Jazz Project Contact: PJ Oliva |
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| Bio: Latin Jazz Artists of the Year in the 2004 Long Beach Jazz Search Competition; Latin Jazz Network's Top 20 Recording artists of 2003 and #1 on the 2003 World Music Charts - Berlin. "Exceeding boundaries, bridging cultural gaps and innovative concepts are all in a day's work for (AC Timba Jazz Project)." - Tomas Peña, Latin Jazz Network. | |
| Instrumentation: Congas/percussion, piano, bass, drums/timbales, clarinet/flute, trumpet, trombone, and vocals. | |
| Number of musicians: 5-8 Additional Equipment Available: P.A. system |
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Acoustic Jazz Quartet Contact: Zac Matthews |
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| Bio: The Acoustic Jazz Quartet's contemporary acoustic jazz blends sophisticated original compositions and treatments of classic jazz repertoire. | |
| Instrumentation: Saxophone, guitar, bass and drums. | |
| Number of musicians: 2-5 (usually
4) Additional Equipment Available: P.A. system |
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ADAAWE Contact: Joselyn Wilkinson |
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| Bio: ADAAWE is comprised of seven dynamic women creating rich organic music of the voice and drum. These diverse, skilled percussionists and vocalists come from all over the world, and their music is an international fusion of African music and rhythms, R&B/pop vocals, arresting Gospel vocal harmonies, and funky original creations. | |
| Instrumentation: Drum set, conga drums, djun-djun drums, djembe drums, cajon drums, shekeres, bells and 5 vocals - lead and background. | |
| Number of musicians: 5-7 |
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Francisco Aguabella and his Latin Jazz Ensemble Contact: Orna Rachovitsky |
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| Bio: Master conguero Francisco Aguabella has played with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, who called him "The John Coltrane of the Congas," Tito Puente, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Palmieri and Carlos Santana. His style of Latin Jazz fuses traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms with salsa, mambo, cha-cha-cha, contemporary rhythms and traditional jazz. He also performs Afro Cuban folkloric music with dancers and singers. | |
| Instrumentation: Congas, timbales, saxophone (also flute), trumpet, trombone, piano, bass and vocals. Sometimes additional percussion is added (bongos.) | |
| Number of musicians: 7-8 |
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The Lori Andrews JazzHarp Quartet Contact: Lori Andrews |
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| Bio: Lori Andrews takes the harp beyond tradition and into the elements of jazz, fusion and R&B. She's performed for Presidents Clinton and Ford, as well as royalty from Europe to Hollywood. "If you think you've heard it all, check out Lori Andrews who...double handedly redefines the possibilities of the harp and turns it into a funky jazz instrument." -Bob James, jazz musician and recording artist | |
| Instrumentation: Electric harp, saxophone/flute, electric and acoustic bass, and drums. | |
| Number of musicians: 1-4 Additional Equipment Available: P.A. system |
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Arohi Ensemble Contact: Paul Livingstone |
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| Bio: The music of the Arohi Ensemble is indebted to the deep classical and folk traditions of India, the Middle East, Macedonia, Spain and Brazil. Playing creative world music through original compositions and improvisations, Arohi combines these diverse rhythms, moods and melodies in the spirit and freedom of American jazz. Members of Arohi play traditional and contemporary innovative instruments designed to stretch the boundaries of new world music. Arohi means "ascending melodic movement." | |
| Instrumentation: Sitar, fretted and unfretted guitar, requinto, flutes and world winds, cello, tabla, ghatum, drums and sometimes Indian violin. | |
| Number of musicians: 3-6 Additional Equipment Available: P.A. system |
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Arpa y Aulos Contact: Andrea Puente |
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| Bio: Arpa y Aulos mixes a repertoire that goes from Renaissance to pieces written by U.S. and Latin American composers especially for them. The group specializes in concert-lectures in both English and Spanish and has given numerous concerts for the Latino community in Los Angeles. | |
| Instrumentation: Harp and flute. | |
| Number of musicians: 2 |
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Aztec Stories Contact: Michael Heralda |
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| Bio: Aztec Stories incorporates musical performance with spoken word and interactive audience participation to share the culture of ancient Mexico and the indigenous world of the Mexika (meh-shee-ka)/Aztecs. The stories, ballads, and narratives presented in this program are all true and based on documented accounts. Many handmade reproductions of indigenous instruments are used and shared throughout the presentation. | |
| Instrumentation: Tlapitzalli (flutes), huilacapitztli (ocarinas), chichtli (whistles), ayacachtli (shakers and rattles), tzcahauztli (rasps), bubalak (Mayan gourd water drums), gourd trumpet, ayayotls (shakers wrapped around the ankles), atecocolli (conch shell trumpet), teponaztli (two-toned wood drum), ayotl (turtle shell drum), frog shell (produces the sound of a frog), singing stones (oldest instrument in the world), chikauaztli (rain stick), xiuhkoatl (fire stick - makes the sound of crackling fire), and guitar. | |
| Number of musicians: 1-6 |
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