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OGGUERE y Los Rumberos Del Funk
[ Cuban-funk collides with hip-hop ]
Acclaimed Afro-Cuban poet/rapper OGGUERE from Orishas performs tunes from his acclaimed “Solar” release, and material from the highly anticipated upcoming release of “La Revolution Del Cuerpo”, with special guest trumpet player the iconic BROWNMAN from Guru’s Jazzmatazz / Jay-z / Mos Def. Cuban-funk colliding with hip-hop!
:: Ogguere – microphone Cuba
:: Brownman – trumpet Trinidad
:: Torrie Seager – guitar Canada
:: Reimundo Sosa – congas Cuba
:: Paco Luviano – bass Mexico
:: Joaquin Nunez – drums Cuba
Fri-Feb-06, 2014 @ My Cafe, 9:00pm, $10
876 Dundas St. West, Toronto
416-568-5510
www.MayToronto.com
ABOUT OGGUERE www.Ogguere.com
Ogguere is a master of rhythm and of the harmonics that are wrought from the expert dissection of the jazz metaphor and the clave of Cuban son. Using this shamanistic knowledge of the soul of these musics, the vocalist and impresario imbues his vocalastics with a special bronzed colour and a riot of tonal shades and a multiplicity of textures.
Raul da Gama, The World Music Report
Ogguere aka Edrey Riveri is one of the leading lights of the Havana Norte phenomenon which has so brilliantly shone upon Torontos musical landscape since the mid 2000s. This luminously talented singer and jazz poet unites contemporary and traditional Afro-Cuban music forms rumba, son, salsa, timba and more with styles from around the world such as jazz, funk, rock, disco and hiphop into a voice uniquely his own. It seems only fitting that an artist whose name is a Yoruba word for soul of the earth has chosen to make his home in the global crossing of Toronto.
In recent years, Ogguere has released two full-length albums and developed an international profile as a member of Gilles Petersons world-renowned Havana Cultura. A native of Havana, Edrey began his career in 1995 when he met the Amenaza Group who were performing under the name Orishas and became the best-known Cuban rap group of all-time and collaborated with them as a guest performer on some of the top stages in Cuba. By 1996, Edrey had formed his own group, 100 Original, and shared the stage with top international hiphop artists such as The Roots, Mos Def, Common Sense, Montel Jordan, and La Mala Rodriguez among others. He quickly became known and respected as one of the pioneers of the Cuban rap scene recording his own songs as well as highly innovative covers for international producers, organizing radio broadcasts and events such as the Havana Hiphop MCs street festivals, and capturing the attention of major media such as The Washington Post and Boston Globe among others.
Now, Ogguere is hard at work with his band comprised of Torontos top Cuban and Canadian musicians on his third full-length album; with the goal of taking his unique hybrid of contemporary & folkloric Cuban music, North American and world music to the next level artistically, and on the road to stages where his musical soul of the earth may shine the brightest.
ABOUT BROWNMAN www.Brownman.com
Heralded as Canadas preeminent Jazz trumpeter by NYCs Village Voice, Brownman Ali – born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, & schooled in NYC – is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protg to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker. He tirelessly leads 7 unique ensembles of his own including the internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO, and the award-winning CRUZAO latin-jazz quintet. In high demand in the studio world with over 300 CD appearances to date, Brownman delivers stylistically authentic horn playing over a wide range of styles from bebop to hiphop having worked with the likes of Guru’s Jazzmatazz replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble, Mos Def, KRS-1, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, Chucho Valdes & far too many more to name here.
He is considered to be one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players in the nation today and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada. A highly decorated player, his accolades include 2 National Jazz Awards and 11 nominations over the years, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, Montreal Jazz Fest’s “Grand Prix Du Jazz” award, a Toronto Independent Music Award & 6 nominations, an induction into the WHO’S WHO IN BLACK CANADA, a BRAVO! channel documentary on his life, NOW magazine naming him “Toronto’s Best Jazz Musician”, CBC Radio Canada named him “one of the most recorded trumpet players in Canadian history”, the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a “Distinguished National of Trinidad”, and is listed by Air Canada as one of the “Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto”.
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