Jul 17, 2025 12:44 PM
DownBeat’s 73rd Annual Critics Poll: One for the Record Books
You see before you what we believe is the largest and most comprehensive Critics Poll in the history of jazz. DownBeat…
Argentine-born bassist and composer Pablo Aslan will perform for the first time at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall with the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and Arturo O’Farrill April 13–14.
The event, “Todo Tango,” will explore the tango experience and its fusion in jazz culture to help celebrate National Jazz Appreciation Month.
The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra is composed of O’Farrill, music director and piano; Michael Philip Mossman, John Walsh, Jim Seeley, Mike Rodriguez, trumpet; Luis Bonilla, Gary Valente, Reynaldo Jorge, trombone; Doug Purviance, bass trombone; Erica vonKleist, Bobby Porcelli, alto saxophone; Mario Rivera, Ivan Renta, tenor saxophone; Pablo Calogero, baritone saxophone; Ruben Rodriguez, bass; Vince Cherico, drums; and Jimmy Delgado and Tony Rosa, percussion.
Tickets are $30–$120 and are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office.
For more information, visit: www.jalc.org
James Brandon Lewis earned honors for Artist of the Year and Tenor Saxophonist of the Year. Three of his recordings placed in the Albums of the Year category.
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