Buena Vista Social Club star Juan de Marcos and the Afro-Cuban All-Stars set a series of shows at SFJAZZ.
Juan de Marcos and the Afro-Cuban All-Stars come to the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco at the centerpiece of the venue’s Cuban Music Week.Cuban musicians have been dispersed around the world for more than half a century while seeking freedom and opportunity, but the family-like ties binding them together endure.
“I write all the music for the band,” said de Marcos, 70, on a recent video call from his home in Maryland, where he’s lived for the past decade. “I select the repertoire, write all the arrangements, and mix my own compositions with jewels of Afro-Cuban music. We rehearse four or five days before we go on the road because everybody lives in different places, New York, Miami, Vegas.”
“I respect very much the work he has done, especially promoting our traditional Cuban music,” said piano virtuoso Aldo López-Gavilán, who plays four shows July 12-13 at SFJAZZ Center and a concert on July 23 in Campbell Recital Hall as part of the Stanford Jazz Festival. “He’s a great musician and arranger and knows the roots. But beyond that, the way he has become a big success rescued this great music that had faded in Cuba and around the world.
Rounding out SFJAZZ’s Cuban programing is Jorge Luis Pacheco, who performs two Joe Henderson Lab shows July 11. Winner of the 2014 Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Competition, he’s a spectacular musician who, like López-Gavilán, is equally versed in Afro-Cuban, modern jazz and European classical traditions.
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