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| Gregorio Uribe Big Band announce October 2 release 'Cumbia Universal' The Musebox today announced that NYC’s favorite Latin ensemble, the captivating Gregorio Uribe Big Band, will celebrate the October 2 release of their highly anticipated album, Cumbia Universal, with what is sure to be a spirited party at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center on October 14. Born in Colombia, Uribe leads the high energy, must-see 16-piece band that blends Colombian rhythms cumbia and chandé with funk and powerful jazz technique. Credited by The Boston Globe with creating “an intoxicating variety” of music, Uribe has performed with Grammy winners Carlos Vives and Arturo O'Farrill and has been interviewed by CNN, Univisión, El Tiempo, and The Miami Herald. Cumbia Universal will be released by prestigious Latin jazz label Zoho Music, which has released albums by Grammy-winning artists Ray Barreto, Arturo O'Farrill, and Bobby Sanabria. More information on Uribe and his buzzing band is available on GUBB’s official website. The charismatic Uribe and his band have been mainstays at Manhattan’s Zinc Bar, where they perform on the first Friday of each month. GUBB’s live performance consists of a remarkable combination of trumpets, trombones, and clarinets soaring over an amazing percussion section and the leader of the band dancing to the beat while rocking out on his accordion. GUBB revitalizes the sounds of the Colombian cumbia big bands of the 60's by adding to Uribe’s original, more contemporary songs.GUBB’s audiences are diverse, energetic, and wholeheartedly receptive of the Colombian and Latin rhythms. The band features a unique combination of New York’s top musicians from around the world, including Argentina, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Uribe’s whirlwind travels began when he studied at the Berklee College of Music, where he was awarded the Steve Gadd Zildjian Scholarship Award in 2007. He moved to New York City in 2008 and soon established himself firmly within the heart of the city’s music scene. Uribe has since taken his music to The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC), the United Nations, and the Colombian Embassy to The Netherlands. In 2012, Uribe was named by Colombia’s government one of the 100 Most Outstanding Colombians Living Abroad. The list included Shakira, Nobel Prize winner García Márquez, and actress Sofia Vergara. In 2013, Uribe raised over $23, 000 on Kickstarter.com to record his first big band album. The album features a collaboration with seven-time Grammy winner and recent addition to AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead, Rubén Blades Cumbia Universal (producers Juan Pablo Mantilla and Kabir Sehgal) will be released on October 2, 2015. The record includes "Caribe Contigo, " a single previously featured on MTV in the U.S. and U.K. Uribe’s cover song of The Beatles "Come Together, " meanwhile, best represents the globally inclusive nature of Cumbia Universal, as it includes guests from Senegal, Israel, and Portugal. write your comments about the article :: © 2015 Jazz News :: home page |