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Monsieur Perine at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Courtesy of Bennett Jackson | Posted on May 10, 2016
Where
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227
When
Mon, August 8, 2016
7:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Straight out of Columbia, Monsieur Periné won Best New Artist category at the Latin Grammy Awards for 2015. That same year, their sophomore recording Caja de Musica was also nominated for Album of the Year and Best Latin Album/Alternative Rock. Based in Bogotá, the band plays a Latin American twenty-first century version of the gypsy jazz popularized by the great Django Reinhardt. But their utilization of bolero, cumbia, tango, sôn and samba extend the group’s rhythmic base beyond the steady 4/4 of Django’s era, adding more varieties of spice to the sonic entree. The group began in 2007 and went through a number of personnel changes before settling on the current lineup featuring the airy, sunny vocals of lead singer Catalina Garcia with guitarist/violinist Santiago Prieto, guitarist Nicolas Junca, bassist Adinda Meertins, drummer Darwin Paez, percussionist Miguel Guerra, saxophonist/clarinetist Jairo Alfonso, and Abstin Caviedes on trombone and bugle...