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Roberto Fonseca at Regattabar

Courtesy of Molly Collins | Posted on March 15, 2018

Where

Regattabar
One Bennett Street
Cambridge, MA
Map
617-395-7757

When

Wed, April 25, 2018
7:30 pm

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Pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Cuba's Jazz Plaza Santiago Festival, Roberto Fonseca has toured the world's most prestigious venues with Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® and the legendary Omara Portuondo. As a bandleader, Fonseca is undoubtedly one of the most innovative Cuban pianists in generations, with a sound at the fertile crossroads of jazz, traditional music, and soul, steeped in a spirituality faithful to his Afro-Cuban roots. Fonseca's November 2016 release ABUC (Verve/Universal) is dedicated to the island he calls home -- it spells CUBA backwards, after all. Teeming with rascally rhythms and burly brass, and woven from allusions, souvenirs and contrasts, ABUC is a kaleidoscope of dancing colors through which Roberto tells the great and rich story of Cuban music, from yesterday to today...

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