Jazz Residency Artist
Pablo Batista
FREE tickets required
SEI Innovation Studio
Thursday, May 15 8pm
THIS EVENT IS FREE! Advanced tickets required.
Join our Jazz Residency artists for the opportunity to experience a work in progress! After months of workshops and preparation, each artist will present an intimate session, showcasing their unfinished collaborative projects in SEI Innovation Studio. Through these works in progress, audiences will have an opportunity to experience the reality and rawness of the creative process.
Collaborating Artists: Pablo Batista and the Mambo Syndicate, and Dennis Guevara (Pianist & Music Arranger)
About the Project: In collaboration with Dennis Guevara—pianist and arranger for Pablo Batista and the Mambo Syndicate—our concept is to fuse 3 genres of music: the ancient Bata rhythms of the Yoruba, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and jazz.
About Pablo Batista: Pablo Batista has performed, recorded and toured internationally for nearly 30 years with some of the biggest stars in rhythm and blues, jazz, Latin, pop and gospel. In 1991, while teaching at AMLA between tours, Pablo received his first grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. This enabled him to do folkloric research in Cuba under sponsorship of the Philadelphia Folklore Project. He went on to receive this award four times, and continued travel to Cuba to study under the masters Pello 'el Afrokan,' Roberto Vizcaino, Miguel 'Anga' Diaz and others. In 2000, Pablo was the recipient of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in Folk Arts. This enabled him to deepen his knowledge of the Afro-Cuban tradition at the source. Pablo Batista continues to study, practice, record, tour and teach. In 2010, after several previous tours and Grammy-winning recordings with soul mega-star Alicia Keys, he was back on the road with her "Elements of Freedom Tour." This culminated in a performance at the World Cup ceremonies in South Africa before an estimated combined live and broadcast audience of over one billion people. 2011 found him working on a new, innovative series of compositions and arrangements that seek to integrate African Yoruba elements into the more accessible musical styles with which he is so familiar, and so proficient. In this way, Pablo Batista hopes to make the tradition more widely accessible to new audiences of varied ethnic backgrounds and musical tastes, and to show how deeply the "Latin tinge" continues to inform and animate American popular music.
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