• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 11 / 23 / 2010

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2010.11.22 - 19:52:05 / [email protected], Cuba.- The Cuban Jazz Band ‘Aires de Concierto’ will offer a sole concert on December 11, at the theatre of the Cuban National Museum of Fine Arts. Band director Janis Abreu said that the performance marks the third anniversary of the band. All its members studied music together at the conservatorium and then at the Higher Institute of Arts, where they decide to create the group.

The band is led by the clarinet, combined with other wind instruments and the guitar. This atypical combination of instruments allows them to make a display of their versatility as musicians, and to show the personal work of its members.

According to Abreu, their model to follow is the Irakere band because its members, when they played together, had an unrepeatable sound and when most of its members decided to take on their careers as soloists they all became stars of the Cuban music. He added that the Irakere band used to rehearse even up to eight hours a day and that’s what they want for ‘Aires de Concierto’,

Abreu also mentioned that this format, so far unprecedented in Cuba, allows them to experiment, to make Cuban jazz and to include new genres and rhythms like contradanza, pilon, sucu sucu, changui, mambo and cha cha cha, among others; which is a way to show their appreciation for the musical legacy of their ancestors.

Source: ACN