Artist description CUBANA BOP is a six piece Latin Jazz group. The music is all Jazz with a strong latin Afro-Cuban flavour featuring originals and classic jazz standards. Their first album, Can’t Stop Now, received rave reviews and sold widely. The new album, The Story So Far, is due for release early 2000.THE SOUND is quite different from most other Latin Jazz fusions being highly melodic and harmonic, with an exciting rhythmic Latin input. Taking the cue from Latin Jazz masters such as Poncho Sanchez, Tito Puente, and Eddie Palmieri, Cubana Bop have worked out their own blend of Latin and Jazz. The band has performed with visiting US artists: Pucho, Dave Valentin and Bobby Mattos

Music Style Latin Jazz

Musical Influences tito puente, carlos santana, miles davis, tania maria, snowboy, cal tjader, mongo santamaria, hilton ruiz, paquito d’ rivera, chick corea, dizzy gillespie, cachao, machito, daniel ponce, bobby mattos, dave valentin, chucho valdes, ruben gonzalez, gloria estefan, gonzalo rubalcaba, pat metheny, eddie palmieri, pucho, jesus alemany & cubanaismo, oscar d'leon, michel camilo, arturo sandoval, ray barretto, clare fischer, ponco sanchez,

Similar Artists tito puente, miles davis, snowboy, cal tjader, mongo santamaria, clare fischer, ponco sanchez, ray barretto, ruben gonzalez,dave valentin,hilton ruiz

Artist History The band came started out at a weekly club jam session in Brighton,UK four years ago. Within a year the bandleader, Terry Seabrook , had penned enough arrangements and compostions to enable the band to start work on the first album. This brought the band much wider exposure and they have since been touring the UK extensively. The second album is now due for release on the Swiss TCB label in April 2000

Group Members Terry Seabrook - Leader/Piano Dave Barnard - Bass Tristan Banks - Drums/Timbales Satin Singh - Congas Ian Price - Tenor Sax Gary Kavanagh - Trumpet Raul D'Olivera - Trumpet

Instruments Piano/Bass/Drums/Timbales/Congas/Trumpet/Tenor Sax

Albums Can't Stop Now, The Story So Far (forthcoming)

Press Reviews Dave Gelly writing in Gramophone about the first CD said:“Cubana Bop is an exciting and highly original band…. They have devised a marvellous variety of textural effects…and are contributing something exciting and original to the idiom…”

Location Brighton, East Sussex - United Kingdom

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