Tonight, October 23, 2019, I have the great privilege of presenting New Songs of Resistance live with a full band for the first time! Not only that, but I’ll be performing at the renowned Regattabar Jazz Club in Cambridge, MA. The Regattabar is near and dear to my heart; it’s where I heard many of my heroes as a kid, including McCoy Tyner, Michel Camilo, Ron Carter, Danilo Pérez, Fred Hersch, Dave Holland, and on and on… And I’ve been honored with doing a CD release celebration for each of my five albums there, as well as performing as a sideman.
Here you’ll find a program of sorts that we’ll have available at the concert - it features the pieces with lyrics, and, where the lyrics are in Spanish or Portuguese, they are accompanied by translations into English. In the cases of the works by Victor Jara (Pablo Neruda), Violeta Parra, León Gieco, and Chico Buarque, the words are as powerful in translation as in the original Spanish/Portuguese!
