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Changing of the Guard at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
On October 23, Ted Nash – having toured the world playing alto, soprano and tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass…
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark will host a Latin Jazz Weekend, Oct. 26-28, which will kick of the venue’s Alternative Routes season.
On Oct. 26 at 8 p.m., Cubanoson and DJ Danny Ramirez will provide dance music with the help of Cultural Explosion Dance Company, New Jersey’s largest Latin dance company and dance school, providing salsa lessons.
On Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m., multireedist Paquito D’Rivera will perform with his sextet for the New Jersey premiere of music from his newest album, Funk Tango, the first album on his own label, Paquito Records. An Artist-in-Residence at NJPAC, D’Rivera has won eight Grammy Awards, most recently for Best Classical Recording.
New Orleans-based trumpeter Irvin Mayfield will lead Los Hombres Calientes on Oct. 28 at 3 p.m. to close the Latin Jazz Weekend with jazz, Afro-Caribbean and New Orleans inspired rhythms.
As Ted Nash, left, departs the alto saxophone chair for LCJO, Alexa Tarantino steps in as the band’s first female full-time member.
Mar 4, 2025 1:29 PM
On October 23, Ted Nash – having toured the world playing alto, soprano and tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass…
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