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Following a series of performances in top New York venues, in 1973 she and her husband, saxophonist/flutist Lew Tabackin, formed the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra. Born in Manchuria, Akiyoshi first moved to Japan with her parents at the end of World War II, and then to the United States in 1956 to study at Berklee School of Music in Boston. The artist for the 2021 JAM poster is Naa Anyele Sowah-De Jesus, a sophomore visual arts student at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.įeatured on the official 2020 JAM poster is pianist, band leader, and composer-arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi, whose vital contributions to the art of big band jazz earned her the title of NEA Jazz Master in 2007. Her 1964 performance of “Mississippi Goddam” was selected as culturally and historically significant by the Library of Congress in 2018 and included for preservation on the National Recording Registry. Simone received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2000 and was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. Some of her many recordings include her debut album, Little Girl Blue, on Bethlehem Records the 1962 live recording Nina at the Village Gate and 1964’s Nina in Concert, which famously addressed racial inequality. An audition in 1954 at the Midtown Bar & Grill in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was noted as a defining moment in her career that introduced her talents as a pianist and singer to an unsuspecting and enthusiastic audience. She went on to study classical repertoire and aspired to continue her education as a concert pianist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, but that future did not come to pass. Born February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone became enamored with music at the early age of three when she learned to play the piano by ear. Unfortunately, due to high demand, we can no longer fulfill requests for this year's poster. Please email any questions or concerns.įeatured on this year’s official 2021 poster is pianist, singer, songwriter, storyteller and civil rights activist Nina Simone. Thank you for your interest in our 2022 JAM poster.
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JAM 2022 Limited Release Free Poster Giveaway The artist for the 2022 JAM poster is Francis Henry Cuadro, a senior visual arts student at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C. Cachao enjoyed a major resurgence in his career, winning a Grammy and recording a series of successful albums.Ĭachao died of kidney failure in 2008 at the age of 89 in Coral Gables, Florida. Cachao’s career took a slight dip in the 1980s- he only recorded three albums as a leader between 19-but Cuban-born actor Andy Garcia helped revitalize the musician, organizing recording sessions with leading Cuban musicians and putting together a tribute concert in Cachao’s adopted hometown in 1992. In the 1970s, he headlined at famous Las Vegas hotels, and ultimately settled in Miami in 1978. Cachao spent two years in Spain, and living for a time in New York City.
Cachao left Cuba in 1962, his departure brought on by the Castro government’s strict policy re American-influenced culture. In addition to pioneering mambo, López also was instrumental in the development of descargas: late-night jam sessions that combined Afro-Cuban rhythms, Cuban melodies, and elements of jazz. López integrated the popular Cuban musical tradition with the pulsating conga, resulting in the beginnings of the soon-to-be preeminent Latin musical genre: mambo. The danzón was a very popular style in Cuba during the early 1900s, but it gradually moved away from its roots as a European, military-style march sound and more towards an Africanized sound with syncopated percussion, almost a mirror image of ragtime’s transition to early jazz. Cachao later played with dance orchestras, joining the Orquesta Arcaño y sus Maravillas in 1937. He studied classical music, was playing bongos in a children’s group at 8, and played upright bass with the Havana Philharmonic at the age of 13. The springy bass lines Cachao played, alongside his brother, pianist/cellist Orestes López, became a foundation of modern Cuban music, later influencing salsa, Latin-infused rock ‘n’ roll, and R&B.īorn in Havana in 1918, López came from a family of musicians. The Cuban bass player helped invent the mambo style in the late 1930s, speeding up the traditional Cuban dance music danzón by inserting a swing to it. In the pantheon of Latino contributions to Jazz, one name that continues to stand out is Israel “Cachao” López. Celebrate jazz with a new poster and the 2022 limited release free poster giveaway!Ģ022: Latin Jazz and the Spirit of “Cachao” López
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