Una Noche de Jazz Latino in Clinton CT

Press release

Joe McCarthy’s New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band Presents
UNA NOCHE DE JAZZ LATINO
at Clinton Town Hall, on Saturday, October 12th, 2024.

Experience an Unforgettable Evening of Soul-stirring Latin Jazz on the Connecticut Shoreline Performed by an Award-Winning Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble.

Celebrating their return home to the Connecticut shoreline, Joe McCarthy’s Latin Grammy® award-winning and Grammy® nominated New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band presents Una Noche de Jazz Latino, an evening of Latin Jazz in Joe’s new hometown of Clinton CT. Hailed by Downbeat Magazine as “a torchbearer of the genre’s storied history and one of its fiercest innovators”, the NY Afro Bop Alliance Big Band has sustained a noted presence on the Afro-Latin scene for over 20 years, most recently with a 2023 Latin Grammy® nomination in the Best Arrangement Category for Joe’s creation of The Pan American Nutcracker Suite. Joe McCarthy, a former resident of Meriden and Madison, CT, and a graduate of The Hartt School of Music, is excited to share the vibrant power of Afro-Cuban music with the communities of Connecticut.

This concert will feature selections from a soon-to-be-released collaboration with celebrated Colombian composer/pianist Hector Martignon entitled Dispatch from the New World, a global musical adventure based on Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Other new compositions celebrating the life of Chick Corea will be presented in addition to selections from the band’s repertoire. Featuring an 18-member big band comprised of the world’s greatest Afro-Cuban jazz musicians, join us for an unforgettable evening of joyous, world-class Afro-Latin music.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 | 7:30 pm | Una Noche de Jazz Latino

Clinton Town Hall, 54 East Main St., Clinton, CT 06413

MUSICIANS: Joe McCarthy, drums; Oscar Stagnaro, bass; Hector Martignon, piano; Luisito Quintero, percussion; Vinny Valentino, guitar;

Nick Marchione, Luke Wingfield, Haneef Nelson and Alex Norris, trumpet; Alejandro Aviles and Emily Pecoraro, alto saxophone; Ben Kono and Luis Hernandez, tenor saxophone; Matt Hong, baritone saxophone;

Noah Bless, Sam Blakeslee, and John Yao, trombone; James Borowski, bass trombone

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