US Jazz Ambassadors To Perform at Art For Progress Benefit
Jazz Capital Events’ premier soul-jazz group To Make Hamptons Debut at Art For Progress Benefit July 15th
The Cultures of Rhythm, a New York–based collective of experienced young players from a variety of musical backgrounds, brings many influences to their sound. Comprised of current and former members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, French Kicks, Isley Brothers, Mofro, and Kevin Jones and Tenth World, diversity is the group’s greatest asset. With so many perspectives represented, the players find common ground on a fundamental level, and the resulting musical explorations are a celebration of soulfulness, distilled into exciting new forms.
Fronted by noted trumpeter and New Orleans native Kevin Louis, the group’s members are steeped in the jazz, soul, blues, and American songbook traditions. Playing from deep within the history of their instruments, they stroll, strut, and dance through swing, jazz, second line, blues, funk, boogaloo, and rock. The Cultures of Rhythm recently recorded a live CD produced by the great Brazilian saxophonist, composer, and arranger Zé Luis Oliveira (Bebel Gilberto, Ivy), and was subsequently selected, through a joint search by the U.S. Department of State and Jazz at Lincoln Center, to represent America in 2007 as Jazz Ambassadors, which tour countries abroad not typically visited by American jazz artists. It will be the fifth time a version of this group will have toured on behalf of the Department of State, having previously visited over 20 countries, in Southern Africa, South America, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.
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