Yosvany Terry

Grammy award winning saxophonist, chekeré player and composer Yosvany Terry fueses the traditional sounds of his native Cuba, with fiery post-bop, sophisticated harmonies, and avant-garde innovation.  His quartet features Yosvany Terry on, saxophone and chekeré, Osmany Paredes on piano, Yunior Terry on bass, and  Ernesto Simpson on drums. They perform at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City August 13-16.

Yosvany Terry  received his earliest musical training from his father, Eladio "Don Pancho" Terry , violinist and Cuba's leading player of the . His father was also known as the founder and director of the "Orquesta Maravillas de Florida," one of Cuba's most important charanga bands. Mr. Terry went on to receive his classical music training and graduated from both the prestigious National School of Art (ENA) and Amadeo Roldan Conservatory.

While in Cuba, Yosvany was known for his musical innovation performing with the likes of legends, such as Chucho Valdez, Silvio Rogriguez, Fito Paez, and Cubanismo, as well as forming the influential group, Columna B. Their work represented the new voice of young Cuban jazz players. " Columna B became this limitless work-shop, where everything could be tried and experimented with. We learned how to polish and develop our craft in a very special and intuitive sense ", comments Terry.   Columna toured throughout the US and Europe, and in 1998 premiered their Inroads Commissioned-piece by Arts International (through the Ford Foundation) at Stanford Jazz Festival.   

Yosvany came to New York in 1999 and was immediately recognized as a "spectacular talent" in the Jazz scene, playing with Roy Hargrove, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Dave Douglass, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and bassist Avishai Cohen.

Always a student, Mr. Terry has absorbed and incorporated American jazz traditions with his own Afro-Cuban roots to produce compositions and solo work that flow from the rhythmic and hard driving avant-garde to sweet sounding lyricism. His voice and style are unique and complex, and with his new Quintet he has married Cuban and American musical traditions to create a new and exciting sound.

Born in Santa Clara Cuba, Osamany Paredes started playing piano at the age 8. He graduated in 1991 from the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Música de La Habana and moved to Mexico in 1992, where he became well known as a jazz musician and is now the latest heavyweight to hang his hat here in the United States. His style is Traditional with a very modern edge. It is Afro-Cuban jazz for the new millennium. Paredes is an aggressive stylist with a bright-sounding, percussive approach and penchant for fiery improvisations, yet time and again he reveals a sweet side on the likes of the stately contradanza and boleros. Having studied classically in Cuba, then working in Mexico City and other spots with such powerhouses as Israel Cachao Lopez, Patato Valdes and Dafnis Prieto.

The Jazz Bakery is located at 3233 Helms Av in Culver City and their telephone number is 310-271-9039 for reservations. For more information: www.JazzBakery.org

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