WDCB Jazz at the MAC
David Gonzalez and The Poetic License Band
City of Dreams
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 8 p.m.Latin jazz meets spoken word in this performance exploding with passion, intelligence and energy. Created and produced by poet / musician / performance artist David Gonzalez, City of Dreams brings a quintet of New York’s hottest Latin Jazz musicians together setting Gonzalez’s compelling poetry like a diamond in a mambo/funk music box. Mr. Gonzalez' poems and stories start with personal history, cultural identity and the rocky road to transcendence. City of Dreams mixes ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms, mambo-flavored house grooves, funk and modern jazz with poetry of contemporary American Latino culture.
“Gonzalez is a poet, musician and storyteller with a gift for word play. Picture a New York Puerto Rican version of Bill Cosby or imagine what Garrison Keillor would be like if he’d been raised in a Latino neighborhood.” — The Courier-Journal
Tickets: $36 adult/34 senior/26 youth
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