Havana, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) The sounds that run through the veins of the Cuban group Síntesis will today provoke a musical fusion together with important exponents of jazz and alternative genres from the Caribbean island.
Accompanied by Eme Alfonso, Pedrito Martínez and Sergio Jimenez, the group that recently won the Latin Grammy award for the album Ancestros Sinfonico, will print the magic of its more than four decades of experience on the stage of the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater.
As announced by the organizers, the recital will be a high-carat event, endorsed by the prolific career of the band and its guests, such as Martínez, who won the Thelonious Monk percussion award in Washington DC, and is one of the founding members of the band. Yerba Buena and their album The Pedrito Martínez Group earned a Grammy nomination.
Considered one of the most recognized Cuban line-ups for the fusion of modern and traditional rhythms and sounds, Síntesis marked another chapter in its history when it won the Latin Grammy in the category of Best Folk Album for the phonogram Ancestros Sinfónico, created together with X and Eme Alfonso under the FacMusic label.
In addition, the plaque had the collaboration of the prestigious Cuban musician Leo Brouwer and the researcher Natalia Bolívar, as an adviser on Afro-Cuban religions, since she mixes Afro sounds with a symphony orchestra.
The phonogram combines emblematic songs from the group’s repertoire composed by Carlos and Eme Alfonso, Esteban Puebla and Lucía Huergo, which now appear as a symphonic suite, with which they entered the select list of the five best jazz and salsa albums of the past. year, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.
«Assisted by his sister and Leo Brouwer, X Alfonso revised his parents’ work, rewriting ten pieces, ten odes to the Orishas to integrate a symphony orchestra. The result is a mystical, epic and cinematic sequel, “reports the publication.
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