REUBAN CABAN QUINTET
Award winning Puerto Rican trombonist Ruben Caban brings a unique blend of original music that can best be described as “Latin-Infused Hard Bop.” From swing to funk, to Latin jazz blues and neo-soul, this fiery quintet is sure to encourage some dance moves with their infectious rhythms.
Ruben Caban has toured and recorded with an array of internationally renowned artists such as Dianne Shurr, Randy Brecker, Arturo Sandoval, Oscar De Leon, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Paquito De Rivera, and many more. His latest release as a leader, Kangana, has earned international acclaim and features a who’s who of South Florida’s top talent including Nestor Torres, Ed Calle, Roxana Amed and Tal Cohen. As an international Jazz Educator, he actively teaches all around the world from Eastern Europe to South America and the Caribbean.
The quintet features Jim Gasior on piano, Agustin Conti on bass, Waldo Madera on drums and percussionist Roberto Vizcaino, Jr.
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CLIFTON ANDERSON
Clifton_Anderson#cite_note-AM-2″>[2] Other bands he has played in include Frank Foster’s Loud Minority, Carlos Garnett’s Cosmos Nucleus, Slide Hampton’s World of Trombones, and McCoy Tyner’s big band.[1] Anderson’s debut album as a leader was Landmarks, which was recorded in 1995 for Milestone Records. A further album, Decade, was released by Doxy around 2008.
The trombone player’s most recent album is Been Down This Road Before from 2020, featuring vocalist Andy Bey and musicians Renee McLean, Antoine Roney, Eric Wyatt, Peter Bernstein, John F. Adams, Monty Alexander, Stephen Scott, Tadataka Unno, Buster Williams, Tom Barney, Ronnie Burrage, Al Foster, Steve Jordan, Sammy Figueroa, and Victor See Yuen.
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Charlie Irvis was born May 6, 1899 in New York City. He first played trombone professionally with Bubber Miley in his youth and then with blues singer Lucille Hegamin in the “Blue Flame Syncopators” from 1920 to 1921. Following this stint, Charlie played with Willie “The Lion” Smith and with Duke Ellington’s Washingtonians and later with his orchestra from 1924 to 1926. During the years 1923 to 1927 he also recorded occasionally with Clarence Williams.
Irvis, along with friends Miley and Tricky Sam Nanton contributed to the development of “jungle sounds” or “growl effects” in trombone playing. After leaving Ellington’s band, for the rest of the decade and into the early 1930s he recorded with Fats Waller, played with Charlie Johnson and Jelly Roll Morton. Some of his final recordings were in 1931 with Miley again, and shortly thereafter with Elmer Snowden.
After the early 1930s, Charlie Irvis, best known for his work with Duke Ellington’s band, stopped playing and passed away in New York City sometime around 1939 in obscurity. He is pictured 2nd from left in the photograph.
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Herb Flemming was born Nicolaiih El-Michelle of North African descent on April 5, 1898 in Butte, Montana. He studied music and played mellophone and euphonium before switching to trombone. During World War I he was a member of James Resse Europe’s 15th New York National Guard Band and then Europe’s 369th U.S. Infantry Band in France in 1917.
Post war Flemming studied at the Frank Damrosch Conservatory playing cello followed by study at the St. Cecilia Academy in Florence and the University of Rome. By 1921 he was playing with Fred Tunstall, recording with Johnny Dunn, then joining Sam Wooding and Bobby Lee’s band in Philadelphia. In the 1920s he joined Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds show, which toured London and Paris toward the end of the decade.
Herb formed his own band, the International Rhythm Aces, in Europe around 1930, while continuing to work with Wooding. They collaborated in Berlin, then found work accompanying Josephine Baker. He would go on to play in Buenos Aires, Paris, Shanghai, Calcutta and Ceylon. By the mid-thirties he would play in Sestto Carlin’s Society Orchestra in Italy and interpret for the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany.
In the late 30s Herb Fleming returned home playing with Earl Hines, Fats Waller, and Noble Sissle prior to a move to California and working for the Internal Revenue Service. In the Forties he freelanced around New York, worked with Red Allen, moved to Spain, recorded with Walter Bishop Jr. and Albert Nichols. Returning to New York City, vocalist and trombonist Herb Fleming passed shortly afterward on October 3, 1976.
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George Chisholm was born on March 29, 1915 in Glasgow, Scotland and began playing trombone in his youth. His musical career started in the Glasgow Playhouse orchestra and by the late 1930s he moved to London, where he played in dance bands led by Bert Ambrose and Teddy Joyce. He later recorded with jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller and Benny Carter when they visited the U.K.
In 1940, during World War II George signed on with the Royal Air Force becoming a member of the RAF Dance Orchestra, known popularly as The Squadronaires. He followed this with freelance work and a five-year stint with the BBC Show Band and as a core member of Wally Stott’s orchestra on BBC Radio’s The Goon Show, for which he made several acting appearances.
In the 1960s, Chisholm was part of The Black and White Minstrel Show, went on to join the house band for two children’s programs Play School and Play Away, and had roles in the films The Mouse on the Moon, The Knack and Superman III.
Despite undergoing heart surgery, during the 1980s George continued to play with his band The Gentlemen of Jazz, with Keith Smith’s Hefty Jazz among others, and playing live with touring artists. He was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1984 but in the mid-1990s, trombonist George Chisholm retired from public life due to ill health and passed away on December 6, 1997, aged 82.
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