Orquesta La Moderna Tradición
Orquesta La Moderna Tradición
website: www.danzon.com
Orquesta la Moderna Tradición is a unique ensemble dedicated to the performance of classic Cuban dance music, especially the lilting grooves of the danzón. A legendary ballroom style that developed from the syncretization of the African and Europian music in Cuba, danzón blends the grooves of the Afro-Cuban drums with the refined riffs of the flute and violins. One of the most popular styles at the turn of the twentieth century, danzón led to the development of the cha-cha-cha and Argentinean Tango. Orquesta La Moderna Tradición performs classics of the genre along with original compositions and the modern Cuban highly syncopated grooves.
....Their sensual danzónes and swinging cha-cha-chas transport you back to the Social Clubs of 1950s Havana, and their upbeat charanga music makes you want to get up and dance.
....With three critically acclaimed recordings and performances at festivals across the country, La Moderna Tradición delights listeners and dancers alike with infectious grooves, lyrical melodies, and dazzling improvisations.
List of Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion performance highlights
....2008 World Music Festival 2008, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
....2008 Yoshi's Jazz Club, San Francisco
....2007 The San Francisco Jazz Festival
....2006 Fillmore Jazz Festival
....2005 San Jose Jazz Festival
....2005 Sonoma Square Summer Jazz Series
....2004 Anchorage Concert Association, Anchorage, Alaska
....2003 The Ford Theater, Los Angeles, CA
....2003 Russian River Jazz Festival, Healdsburg, CA
....2003 The San Francisco Jazz Festival
....2003 The Aiwanee Lodge, Yosemite Valley, CA
....2002 The Fillmore with Poncho Sanchez, San Francisco, CA
....2002 Stern Grove Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
....2001 Tour of Spain with Sexteto de la Moderna Tradición: Teatro Principal de Zamora;.Antilles, Barcelona;
........Taller de Musics, Barcelona; Club Guajido, Boiro, Galicia; Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
....2001 North Beach Jazz Festival, San Francisco, California
....2001 Free Music Cuban Style: A Celebration of Cuban Arts and Culture,
........sponsored by Mother Jones Magazine, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
....2000 The 11th Annual Eddie Moore Jazz Festival, with Cuban master trumpet player
........Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, Yoshi's Nightclub, Oakland, California
....2000 Self-produced concert series with legendary Richard Egües, founder of Orquesta Aragón
....2000 Telluride Jazz Celebration, Telluride, Colorado
....2000 San Jose Jazz Festival, San Jose, California
....1999 San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Francisco, California
....1999 Glenwood Springs True Jazz Festival, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
....1999 San Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco, California
....1999 Breckenridge Jazz Festival, Breckenridge, Colorado
....1998 S.O.B.'s, New York City
....1998 Midsummer's Night Swing Festival, Lincoln Center, New York City
....1997 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
