NDR BIGBAND Danilo Pérez: Lumen

In the organizer's words:

It is becoming increasingly clear how important Latin music was for jazz; an influence that was audible in the USA from the mid-1940s at the latest, but was not given enough attention for a long time. Danilo Pérez's big band program "Lumen", named after the physical unit of luminous flux, throws a real spotlight on this. Born in 1965, the Panamanian pianist and composer has been blending more than just jazz and Latin for some time now. His music also contains traces of West Africa, the Middle East and classical music: an expression of his conviction that music is a global language, overcoming borders and promoting unity, just as Pérez experienced in 1989 in the United Nations Orchestra of his discoverer and patron, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, or as a long-standing member of the quartet of the great saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and now translates into big band compositions.

Price information:

27 Euro (reduced from 13,50 Euro)