NEGRONI’S TRIO
The Aventura Jazz Festival presented by Lion Tribe Group presents three-time Latin GRAMMY®-nominated group Negroni’s Trio as part of a two day celebration of outstanding music performances. The Jazz takes place in Aventura!
Negroni’s Trio possesses enough musical experience to captivate listeners of any musical genre and is seducing and entertaining audiences across all continents. Negroni’s Trio is comprised of a “father and son team”, José Negroni, on piano and keyboards, Nomar Negroni, on drums and percussions, completing the trio is bassist Rafael Valencia. The Negroni team have worked together since 2002 as Co-Founders and Co-Producers to form an ensemble of master musicians who create their own unique voice in traditionally known jazz classics, Latin jazz and jazz fusion. Taking musical risks with performance and repertoire, the result is an array of classic lyricism mixed with innovative and sincere improvisations that quenches the audience’s thirst for world class jazz.
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JAVON JACKSON | THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO NIKKI GIOVANNI
Saxophonist and former Jazz Messenger Javon Jackson, world-renowned poet laureate Nikki Giovanni, and celebrated jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon stand on the shoulders of their ancestors in The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni, a meaningful meditation on struggle, sacrifice, resilience, liberation, and victory.
Giovanni, one of today’s finest poets and thinkers, makes a rare vocal appearance at this inspired evening of her favorite poetry, hymns, and Negro spirituals reimagined by Jackson as jazzy new compositions. “These songs are so important,” says Giovanni of the historic collaboration. “I’m out here putting water on the flowers, because they need a drink” (Broadway World).
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CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT | OGRESSE
“She falls in love. She eats the guy. She dies.”
Jazz meets theater in Ogresse, a new musical journey of myth and song created by award-winning vocalist and master storyteller Cécile McLorin Salvant. With its dark, romantic “fairytale-like” story, Ogresse is a delightfully poignant and playful addition to Salvant’s, award-winning, eclectic body of work.
“There’s this monstrous vile strength in her, a little bit of madness,” Salvant says of the titular beast. “The songs are these beautifully matched beads on a necklace that hang together so well, conjuring archetypes and exploring matters of race and sexuality, and our fears and prejudices. It’s one of my most thrilling moments as a singer.”
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CHUCHO VALDÉS PESENTS LA CREACIÓN
Chucho Valdés presents “La Creación” with the Yoruban Orchestra
Hilario Durán & John Beasley, Musical Director
The extraordinary summation of an extraordinary career
The great Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés presents “La Creación,” a bold new work for big band, Afro-Cuban percussion, and vocals with elements of Santería ritual music, African music, blues, and what Valdés describes as “an atmosphere in the style of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew.”
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TERENCE BLANCHARD: ABSENCE
Terence Blanchard has blown audiences away with his bands, film scores, operas, and most recently in performance with Herbie Hancock. Called “a brass-wielding force of nature” by the Los Angeles Times, the trumpeter/composer returns with his 2021 Blue Note release Absence—a powerful tribute to the great Wayne Shorter.
Teaming up with Turtle Island Quartet and his electric ensemble the E-Collective, Blanchard reimagines songs from across Shorter’s vast catalog and shares original music inspired by the legendary saxophonist—resulting in “a lush and dramatic soundscape that calls to mind Blanchard’s career as a successful film composer.” (The New Yorker).
E-Collective
Terence Blanchard (Trumpet/Synths)
Charles Altura (Guitar)
Taylor Eigsti (Piano/Keyboard/Synths)
David Ginyard, Jr. (Electric Bass)
Oscar Seaton (Drums)
Turtle Island Quartet
David Balakrishnan (Violin)
Gabriel Terracciano (Violin)
Benjamin von Gutzeit (Viola)
Naseem Alatrash (Cello)
Showtimes: 7:00pm & 9:00pm
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