With the spectacularly intriguing album Cantar the drummer, composer, pedagogue and – now in one fell swoop – a out-and-out songwriter as well, Dafnis Prieto makes...
There is a segment in the short, documentary film “Regresar – Back in Cuba” (2019) where Dafnis Prieto says to a contingent of students, “When I...
In this special collaboration poised to be a top release of 2022, GRAMMY-winning Cuban-born drummer, composer, bandleader, and 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Dafnis Prieto unites with...
As the follow-up to his GRAMMY-winning big band album, Back to the Sunset, which DownBeat called “one of the best recordings of the year,” Cuban-born drummer,...
Dafnis Prieto – Biography A classically trained musician who absorbed from an early age the multifaceted percussive traditions of his native Cuba, Prieto transposes elements from...
It is rare indeed to find drummers who can think like pianists; even rarer to find one that thinks like a saxophonist, a trumpeter, bassist and...
New Dimensions in Latin Jazz: “A Cuban Drum Series” with Emilio Valdés and special guest Mark Whitfield WHEN: TUE 10/8 at 7:30PM + 9:30PM TICKETS: $20....
Omar Sosa is an extraordinary musician embodying both the magical virtuosity of musicianship and its soulful roots all in one. Actually one could not exist without...