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Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:56 pm
David Buchbinder's Odessa-Havana
The Jewish Music Festival presents
David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana
Thursday, March 10 8:00pm Club Fox, Redwood City &
Club Fox, 2223 Broadway, Redwood City
To attend, please call 650.378.2702
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March 12th 8:00PM Show / 7:30PM Door
Thrust Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA
About David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana:
Founder of Canada’s leading klezmer band, The Flying Bulgars, award-winning trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder teams up with the brilliant Cuban pianist Hilario Durán and a crew of Canada’s top jazz and world musicians to present a high-powered collision of two great musical styles.
There is beautiful music here, along with ferocity and no small amount of fun. Failure to respond is virtually impossible.” – Buffalo News
Buy the CD from Tzadik Records’ Radical Jewish Culture Series
Award-winning trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder teams up with a crew of top jazz and World musicians to present this exciting, unprecedented project of musical discovery: the Jewish- Cuban connection. Odessa/Havana made its debut in September, 2006, and released its debut CD (on the Tzadik label) in November of 2007 to great critical and audience acclaim, including being named the #1 Jazz CD of 2007 by Toronto Life and Allmusic.com.
Odessa/Havana is a high-powered collision of two great musical styles predated but not predicted by the Jewish-fuelled, American Mambo craze of the 1950s. Working from the roots of each tradition and finding many areas of sonic commonality, Buchbinder and co-composer Hilario Durán have crafted a sound that is exciting, fresh and compelling as it challenges listenersʼ comfortable genre preconceptions.
While the cities and cultures of Odessa and Havana might seem many miles apart, their musical associations are many-faceted, multi-layered and rich indeed; rooted in their common ancestry on the Iberian peninsula and sharing Arabic, Roma (Gypsy), Sephardic and North African forbearers. The two musics already share haunting minor modalities, improvisatory flourishes, a strong rhythmic drive and deeply spiritual underpinnings. Buchbinder and Duránʼs compositions explore these commonalities as they break new ground, creating a truly unprecedented sound. And both musical traditions have long since proven their suitability for creative adaptation, serving as a kind of “raw material” for musical development (Latin jazz, modern klezmer/“Radical Jewish Culture”).
Odessa/Havana is also emblematic of what might be termed post-multicultural creation, something that is increasingly happening in Canadaʼs major urban centres as mature musicians from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds meet, collaborate and create new sounds that transcend countries and cultures of origin. It is no coincidence that Odessa/Havana was born in the musical ferment of downtown Toronto, where there is so much natural experimentation occurring.
Odessa/Havana is “a genuine hybrid, strongly flavoured by Russian-Jewish modality and Afro-Cuban rhythms, but with those strands so strongly intertwined as to seem inextricable.” – Globe & Mail
The musicians of Odessa/Havana: Along with Buchbinder, Odessa/Havana includes the some of the most sizzling musicians in the country: Luis Guerra (piano), Roberto Occhipinti (bass), Quinsin Nachoff (reeds), Mark Kelso (drums), Aleksandar Gajic (violin), and Rick Shadrach Lazar (percussion). Featured as a guest on the recording and at times in performance is Grammy- nominated, Cuban drumming great, Dafnis Prieto. (Hilario Durán is on the recording but not part of the touring unit.) This is an ensemble of incredible, award-winning instrumentalists, bandleaders, producers and educators whose performing, producing and compositional credits read like a Whoʼs Who of the international World jazz and pop scene.
For the latest info about Odessa/Havana please visit: www.odessahavana.com or www.myspace.com/odessahavana. Also visit www.davidbuchbinder.ca
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