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Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet Live at the Jazz Standard -Live Recording

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Drummer/Composer & Bandleader Dafnis Prieto will be performing with his SI O SI Quartet at The Jazz Standard in New York City from Friday March 20th, 2009 thru Sunday March 22nd, 2009.

Set Times are 7:30 PM & 9:30 PM – with an 11:30PM set added on Friday and Saturday. This performance is being recorded for Dafnis Prieto’s new release on Dafnison Music. Come and be part of this live recording!!

Dafnis Prieto SI O SI Quartet:
Peter Apfelbaum – saxophones
Charles Flores– bass

Manuel Valera – piano 

Dafnis Prieto – drums

LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Dafnis Prieto SI O SI Quartet
Jazz Standard - 116 East 27th Street New York
March 20th thru March 22nd, 2009
Set Times 7:30 & 9:30 PM with 11:30 set on Fri & Sat.
For Reservations & Information CALL 212-576-2232
Tickets: $30 Friday & Saturday/ $25 Sunday

Born in Cuba and a New York resident for the past decade, the superb drummer and composer Dafnis Prieto has already established a unique voice as a leader after three albums under his own name. His CD Absolute Quintet was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006 and he received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2007.

He is also known for his work as a sideman with musicians such as Steve Coleman, Henry Threadgill, Eddie Palmieri, and Michel Camilo, among others. An outgrowth of the Sextet that recorded last year's acclaimed album Taking the Soul for a Walk, his new Si o Si Quartet demonstrates again Prieto's extraordinary talents as a composer and bandleader.

These Jazz Standard sets will be recorded live for future CD release - come and be a part of the excitement!

“Dafnis Prieto is easily the most impressive young drummer to come on the jazz scene during the past decade. Possessing awesome virtuosity and astonishing versatility, Prieto has made important contributions to the music of a broad range of leaders… His compositions are elaborate composites melding Afro-Cuban rhythms and modern jazz harmonies into music that is ecstatic and intelligent.”−
All About Jazz

The essence of Mr. Prieto’s style is his collation of various Afro-Cuban percussion sounds − from old religious music to modern music − within one set of trap drums. His playing is infernally complicated, and infernally precise; the blizzard of accents he throws into any pattern have their place as surely as pixels in a computer image.” − Ben Ratliff ..
The New York Times

“He is extraordinary, a rhythmic stimulus. He comprehends the two most incredibly difficult rhythmic genres − being Cuban and being an extremely talented jazz drummer.” −
Eddie Palmieri

Dafnis Prieto's music explodes with energy… He is the essence of a modern drummer, propelling his original compositions with a singular passion and intensity… – The Sacramento Bee

Dafnis Prieto Bio:

His arrival in the U.S. has been compared by to that of an asteroid hitting New York. Indeed, within a short period of time Dafnis Prieto's revolutionary drumming techniques had a powerful impact on both the Latin and jazz music scene, locally and internationally. Having studied at the school of Fine Arts in Santa Clara, Cuba as a youngster and later at the National School of Music in Havana, Prieto obtained a thorough classical education while broadening his knowledge of Afro-Cuban music, jazz and world music outside of the academy.

He first toured Europe with pianists Carlos Maza and Ramon Valle and the groundbreaking group “Columna B.” A resident of New York since only 1999, he has already played in bands led by Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Chico and Arturo O'Farrill, Dave Samuels & The Caribbean Jazz Project, Jane Bunnett, D.D. Jackson, Edward Simon, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez, Claudia Acuña, Roy Hargrove, Don Byron, and Andrew Hill, among others. He has performed at many national and international music festivals as a sideman and as bandleader.

As a composer, he has created music for dance, film, chamber ensembles, and most notably for his own bands, ranging from duets to his “Small Big Band” and including the distinctively different groups featured on his two acclaimed recordings as a leader, “About The Monks,” and “Absolute Quintet.” He has received new works commissions, grants, and fellowships from Chamber Music America, Jazz at Lincoln Center, East Carolina University, and Meet the Composer. Various awards include “Up & Coming Musician of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2006, a Grammy Award Nomination for ”Absolute Quintet” as Best Latin Jazz Album, and a Latin Grammy Nomination for “Best New Artist” in 2007. Also a gifted educator, Prieto has conducted numerous master classes, clinics, and workshops. Since 2005, he has been a member of the NYU Music Faculty.



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