Studio 111 Brooklyn presents: Santi Debriano - Flash of the Spirit LIVE! - HD Livestream performance on June 13th, 2pm EST
Award-winning bassist Santi Debriano has released his much-anticipated new album Flash of the Spirit on Truth Revolution Records. Much like his native Panama, which straddles the continental divide and facilitates the union of Pacific and Atlantic, Santi Debriano has become comfortable occupying several worlds at once. But, like the Panama Canal, it’s taken some work—extracurricular work, in Debriano’s case. As an ethnomusicology graduate student at Wesleyan University Debriano read Robert Farris Thompson’s Flash of the Spirit. For Debriano, a Black Panamanian American who’d grown up in New York City after his family emigrated from Panama when he was four, Thompson’s book proved revelatory, asking questions like: To what extent have African traditions and customs been retained by contemporary Black cultures throughout the Americas? “That book describes my ancestral struggle to stay present in the many worlds I live in,” says Debriano, “but also to never forget where I came from.” Debriano explores this and more on his critically acclaimed record which features drummers Tommy Campbell and Francisco Mela, saxophonist Justin Robinson, flutist Andrea Brachfeld, percussionist Valtinho Anastacio, and Tim Porter on mandolin. The album is one of the "most played" on Jazz Radio in 2021 thus far and received four stars from All About Jazz.
The performance will be hosted by T.J. English, award winning author and jazz aficionado.
“Between the reimagined— and sometimes totally reinvented— takes on tunes from Kenny Barron, Kenny Dorham, and Ornette Coleman, as well Debriano’s solo bass take on a standard popularized by Billie Holiday, the temptation might be to overlook Flash of the Spirit’s original compositions; doing so would be a mistake.” It’s a danger easily avoided by starting at the beginning, where Debriano’s “Awesome Blues,” a percussive hip-shaker in seven, leads things off. Driven hard by Debriano’s indefatigable bottom and bookended by beautiful and precise unison playing on the tune’s theme by Robinson and Brachfeld—which calls for and, in turn, receives response from Debriano’s bass—it’s a blues that lives up to its lofty billing.” - Danilo Navas - LATINJAZZNET
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Band:
Santi Debriano: Bandleader, Bass, Composer, Arranger
Andrea Brachfeld: Flute
Tommy Campbell: Drums
Craig Handy: Tenor Saxophone
Xito Lovell: Trombone & Percussion
Bill O’Connell: Piano
Links:
Facebook Event - Santi Debriano Flash Of The Spirit - LIVE!
Flash of the Spirit by Santi Debriano - Truth Revolution Recording Collective
Overdue Ovation: Santi Debriano - Jazz Times
Flash of the Spirit · New Album by Santi Debriano - LATINJAZZNET
Renowned Bassist Santi Debriano to Release New Album 'Flash of the Spirit' - Bass Magazine
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