September 18, 2014
Rose Theater – New York
To open its 2014-15 season, Jazz At Lincoln Center welcomes the world premiere of a work by managing and artistic director Wynton Marsalis. Ochas, for big band and Afro-Cuban percussion, features special guests in the commanding pianist Chucho Valdés and percussionist, vocalist and Santería priest Pedrito Martinez. With the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, they blend jazz with the traditional folkloric and religious music of Cuba. Jazz Night In America explores how the new suite of music came to be.
Set list:
3:02 – ‘Moyuba’
17:03 – ‘Ogún’
24:25 – ‘Obatalá’
49:32 – ‘Changó’
Personnel
- Carlos Henriquez – bass
- Dan Nimmer – piano
- Ali Jackson – drums, tambourine
- Kenny Rampton – trumpet
- Greg Gisbert – trumpet
- Marcus Printup – trumpet
- Chris Crenshaw – trombone
- Vincent Gardner – trombone
- Elliot Mason – trombone
- Victor Goines – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
- Ted Nash – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo
- Sherman Irby – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute
- Walter Blanding – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet
- Paul Nedzela – baritone sax, bass clarinet
- Chucho Valdés – piano
- Pedrito Martinez – batá, vocals
- Román Díaz – batá, vocals
- Clemente Medina – batá, vocals
- Denise Ola De-Jean – vocals
- Amma Dawn Mcken – vocals
- Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé – percussion
- Yesenia Fernandez Selier – dance