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Submit Your Film. Scientology Courses. Ron Hubbard. Church Locator. Her recording debut in was as pianist and musical director of a popular Cuban Songo combo, Los Kimy. As a bandleader, her contemporary jazz recordings for trio, quartet and larger ensemble have been released on the Blue Note and Enja labels, including four with her acclaimed group Quintessence. She has toured internationally, and performed at major jazz festivals, concert halls and clubs throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
A dedicated educator, Rosewoman continues to conduct workshops at colleges and universities throughout the US and has served as a faculty member and resident artist at New York University and Berklee College of Music.
Rosewoman's music — dissonant melodies, brass chorales, chromatic ballads and orchestrated vamps for brasses, saxophones, and a jazz rhythm section, as the groove shifted from the flow of the Santeria chants to the swing of a jazz band — was jazz that didn't simply use Afro-Cuban rhythms as decoration, but layered melodies and rhythms with equal force and weight.
Widely credited as being one of the first composers to synthesize sacred Cuban folkloric music with a thoroughly contemporary jazz concept, Rosewoman's magnum opus, double-cd set — the debut album released on her own Advance Dance Disques label - is the realization of a distinctive creative vision thirty years in the making.
Through a successful Kickstarter campaign and the generous support of her backers and co-producers Neyda Martinez and Onel Mulet of Habana Harlem, Rosewoman's dream has reached fruition. A disciple of legendary Cuban percussionist Orlando "Puntilla" Rios, her career as a cross-pollinating innovator seamlessly bridges both the jazz and latin genres.
As a composer, she's achieved recognition from Chamber Music America and support from the National Endowment for the Arts. A pianist since the tender age of six, Rosewoman first became directly involved in African folkways in her teens via Cuban music when she began playing congas and percussion.
As a composer and as a pianist, my approach is profoundly shaped by the rhythmic perspective of the bata drums and is evident in the way that I write and play. This enables me to integrate the forms without forcing any element to fit, and to retain the essence of each idiom. The group also includes the all-star cast of Freddie Hendrix on trumpet and flugelhorn, Oliver Lake on soprano and alto saxophones and flute, Mike Lee on tenor saxophone and flute, Vincent Gardner on trombone, Howard Johnson on baritone saxophone and tuba, Yunior Terry on acoustic bass and Adam Cruz on drums, with additional contributions from percussionist Daniel Carbonell and singer Nina Rodriguez.
Together they celebrate the Afro-Cuban orishas the traditional Yoruban deities throughout an eclectic, joyously kinetic mix of compositions united with and grounded in ancient African rhythms originating in Nigeria and Dahomey. The first disc opens with Divine Passage, dedicated to the deity Eleggua: an energetically elegant, cinematic horn arrangement leads into duet improvisations and winds up to an animated outro afloat on a bed of hypnotic percussion.
They follow with the celebratory track Dance for Agayu, where the rhythmic nature of the sequence of traditional arara melodies are so joyful it makes it hard to sit still.
Natural Light Obatala , piano and vocals setting the stage for a funk groove that reminds that funk is also an ancient African rhythm, in this case a springboard for animatedly expansive lead vocals by Pedrito Martinez and trumpet and piano solos. Por Ahora y Para Siempre, a shapeshifting composition with echoes of Monk and features a Lake solo that coalesces into warm lyricism and a suspense fully booming, extended bata interlude.
After the deep funk of Vamp for Ochun, a vocal feature for Martinez, there's the spaciously misterioso epic Old Calabar, setting Diaz' theatrical vocals against Rosewoman's coloristic Rhodes piano. The first disc concludes with Rezo a Ochun Prayer for Ochun , Rosewoman's improvisation nimbly negotiating a thicket of trance-inducing vocal countermelodies as sung by Rosewoman and Rodriguez.
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