YOSVANY TERRY QUARTET live concert a Polignano

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
YOSVANY TERRY QUARTET
Concert at Aldo Moro Square at 9pm - FREE EVENT

Yosvany Terry, saxophone
Sam Mortellaro, piano
Stefano Dallaporta, double bass
Federico Saccà, drums

Yosvany Terry - Saxophone. Since arriving in New York in 1999, Cuban saxophonist, percussionist and composer Yosvany Terry "has helped redefine Latin jazz as a new and complex language," says the New York Times. Born in Camaguey, Cuba, to an illustrious family of musicians, Yosvany Terry is an internationally renowned composer, saxophonist, percussionist, bandleader, educator, and bearer of the Afro-Cuban tradition. From his early days in New York, Terry has been embraced by the jazz and contemporary music community, playing with Branford Marsalis, Rufus Reid, Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, Roy Hargrove, Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Taj Mahal, and Eddie Palmieri's Afro-Caribbean sextet. In 2015 Terry was awarded the prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award and was hired by Harvard University as director of jazz ensembles and senior music lecturer. He has recently received commissions from the Yerba Buena Garden Festival in San Francisco ("Noches de Parranda" for a 12-piece ensemble supported by the MAP Fund), the French-American Jazz Exchange with the support of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation ("Ancestral Memories" with French pianist Baptiste Trotignon), and Harlem Stage (the score for the opera "Makandal," premiered in 2016-17). Terry has also received a grant from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the New York State Music Fund to create Afro-Cuban Roots: Yedégbé, a suite of Arará music. His album, "New Throned King" (5Passion), nominated for a GRAMMY Award in 2014, features music based on the chants and rhythms of the Arará people from the eastern Cuban province of Matanzas, derived from the Fon culture of the Dahomey kingdom, in present-day Benin. His previous album, "Today's Opinion" from 2012 (Criss Cross), was selected as one of the top 10 albums of the year by Nate Chinen of the New York Times.

------ After the success of last year, great international music returns to Polignano a Mare with the second edition of the "Polignano a Mare International Jazz Festival." Scheduled are four free events in three charming locations in the gem of the Adriatic on July 29 and 30, August 3, and September 19, 2024. Three concerts and a round table with great artists from the Italian and international jazz scene: Marco Armani, Fabio Accardi, Yosvany Terry and, in collaboration with the association Soul Brothers, Jany McPherson.
The Polignano a Mare International Jazz Festival, organized by the Radio Incontro Association with artistic direction by Roberta Marchese and sponsored by the Municipality of Polignano a Mare, in addition to spreading culture and music of the highest artistic level, has the important objective of raising awareness within the community to beauty, allowing all citizens and tourists to freely enjoy the events and making it possible to spread the image of Polignano a Mare at a regional, national, and global level as a promoter of highly targeted opportunities to foster cultural, artistic, and tourist growth of authentic quality.

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