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“Con Alma y Fuego” featuring Metta Quintet plus special guestsPortland OvationsCelebrate Día de Muertos with this introduction to the best of Latin Jazz. Featuring sizzling live music by New York’s Metta Quintet, captivating video projections, and live narration, Con Alma y Fuego (With Soul and Fire) captures the enticing origins and evolution of Latin jazz, highlighting the music of artists such as Machito, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Irakere. With its roots firmly steeped in the African-American experience, jazz musicians have always been creative, globetrotting explorers in search of new sounds,  rhythms, harmonies and melodies as a means by which to expand their musical vocabularies and palettes of expression.  “Latin Jazz” (as it’s commonly known) is, in effect, an approach to playing jazz that integrates traditionally American jazz forms, concepts and sensibilities with rhythms, harmonies, melodies and instruments from the African, Caribbean and Latin American musical traditions. 

Activity Sub-Category

Trips & Special Events

Instructor

Devon Galvan