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Lecture and Performance with the Berkeley Jazzschool faculty member Wayne Wallace. Clave and Quilts When we embrace our differences we celebrate community, life and create something new and beautiful. The music of any group of people is the rhythm of their culture, a gift to be shared by all. Like a quilt, the music of the Americas has many disparate influences while it draws it's strength and beauty from diversity. Blues, jazz, tango, bomba, cha-cha-cha, bolero, merengue and more. "Clave and Quilts" is a musical pastiche of the secular and sacred sounds of remembrance that move us forward into tradition. A 6 time Grammy nominee, Wayne Wallace is one of the more highly respected contributors of African American-Latin music in the world today, having been recognized by numerous organizations and publications including in the Downbeat Critics Polls under the trombone and producer categories. Mr. Wallace is an accomplished arranger, educator, and composer. He's performed, recorded, and studied with acknowledged masters of the Afro-Latin and Jazz idioms such as Aretha Franklin, Earth Wind & Fire, Pete Escovedo, Santana, Julian Priester, Whitney Houston,Tito Puente, Steve Turre, John Lee Hooker, Con-funk-shun, and Max Roach. The fertile musical environment of the San Francisco Bay Area shaped Wayne's career in a unique way. His studies of Afro-Latin music and Jazz have included several trips to Cuba, New York, and Puerto Rico. His distinctive melding of cultures, styles of music, and diverse collaborators is truly a reflection of his being a native San Franciscan. Mr. Wallace is also widely respected as a teacher and historian. He is currently an instructor at San Jose State University, Stanford University and the Jazzschool in Berkeley. He is sought after nationally as a lecturer and clinician. As the head of his own record label, Patois Records, Wayne has created a unique company with a passionate mission of developing and chronicling the multi-cultural styles of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene.
Free with MoAD Admission.
