Spring Concert with Special Guest Artist Doug Beavers!
Saturday, May 26, 8 PM
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford Campus
$10 general/ $9 senior/$5 student/Free with SUID
Tickets: Door or Ticket Office (650)725-2787
We are pleased that master trombonist/arranger Doug Beavers will be the featured guest
artist for our Spring Concert. Originally from the Bay Area, Mr. Beavers is internationally recognized as one of the top trombonists in the
Latin Jazz genre. The concert showcases Doug both as a performer and arranger - the repertoire for the evening includes several pieces that he has
specifically orchestrated for the Stanford group. Join us for an special, exciting evening of cutting edge Salsa and Latin Jazz! Dancing in the aisles
is not only allowed, it's encouraged!
Mr. Beavers is the driving force behind 9-time Grammy winner Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta
II band, inspiring the latter to reform the band through Doug's transcriptions and arrangements of the original group's repertoire.
Doug went onto to tour extensively with the group, winning a Grammy with Palmieri for his work on his 2005 release, Listen Here.
Beavers has since established his own solo career, becoming universally recognized as a cutting-edge trombonist and "an arranger of the first-class" (Harvey Siders, JazzTimes).
He has performed and arranged for the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Don Omar, Sheila E., Mingus Big Band,and Spanish Harlem Orchestra.
In addition to receiving several orchestral commissions for arranging and composition, he has released three solo projects. Finally, Mr. Beavers has maintained
his west coast roots as he leads Conjunto Rovira, a Bay Area based band that plays cutting-edge salsa.
Currently based in New York City, Doug Beavers has established the Harlem School of Urban Music and Recording Arts, enabling
urban students of Harlem and the South Bronx to study their own specific brand of urban jazz, salsa, hip-hop, and rock, through a program of formal music and production training.
Other News
We have a couple of other performances scheduled on the Stanford Campus -- be sure to catch us play! We are performing on Monday, May 10 as part of the first ever
Stanford Carnival celebration, sponsored by Latinos Unidos. It's free and open to the public. We are also
the featured performing group on June 8 for the year-end social event sponsored by Los Salseros de Stanford, a student group dedicated to dance performance for Latin Music.
Please see our event page for more details.
Past Concert Videos & Picture Galleries!
Go to our gallery page view videos and pictures from previous concerts. Check out our "Masters of Latin Jazz" Concert
with guest artists Jesus Diaz, John Calloway, Ray Vega, Wayne Wallace, and Orlando Torriente. This special collaboration was a rare
event indeed, combining virtuoso musicians from both the East and West Coasts. We also collaborated with five-time Grammy nominated
percussionist/educator John Santos!
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