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Conga Buena

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After a long hiatus, the AC Jazz Project returns with an exciting new recording, Conga Buena, featuring a new bandleader, new band members and a new high energy mix of Afro-Cuban Jazz and modern Cuban dance music. Effective September 17^th, Conga Buena’s physical CD and digital downloads have been available for purchase online at CD Baby, I-Tunes and Amazon...

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: AC Jazz Project bring sizzling timba in first Utah performance

The AC Jazz Project, June 28, 9:45 p.m., Park Stage

June 27, 2014 By Les Roka

There is a phenomenally talented generation of Cuban musicians, including some who have not yet reached the age of 30, who are demonstrating to the world the truest, most dynamic elements of Cuban music that is far, far away from the nostalgic sounds of the 1950s that people often have associated from the genre.

Smolderingly sensual, wickedly witty, and smartly provocative, today’s Afro-Cuban music – rumba, folklore, danzon, cha cha cha, mambo, son and timba – is a virtuosic expression with enormously significant cultural relevance to street life in Cuba and in the United States.

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