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X-WR-CALNAME:JUAN-CARLOS FORMELL PRESENTS "JOHNNY'S DREAM CLUB" in New
	 York City at Blue Note - Eventful
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SUMMARY:JUAN-CARLOS FORMELL PRESENTS "JOHNNY'S DREAM CLUB"
DESCRIPTION: FEATURING: Juan-Carlos Formell\, guitar & vocals Pedro Gi
	raudo\, bass Jorge Leyva\, percussion Osmany Paredes\, piano special g
	uest: Yosvany Terry\, tenor saxophone  Expect the unexpected from Cuba
	n music rebel Juan-Carlos Formell\, whose visionary songs have been co
	mpared to the work of Jobim\, Caetano Veloso\, Neil Young and Jackson 
	Browne. Born in Havana in 1964\, singer/songwriter/guitarist/bassist J
	uan-Carlos Formell is a fourth generation musician. But the restrictio
	ns of the government-controlled music industry in his homeland made it
	 difficult for him to express his new ideas. "While still in my twenti
	es\, at a time when most musicians are full of hope\, I was resigned t
	o a future of marginalization\," Juan-Carlos recalls. He fled to the U
	nited States in 1993\, to make his own music\, his way. "Music is the 
	combustion created by the impact of a moment on a place. I came to New
	 York as part of an exodus of young Cuban musicians who had no place i
	n their country\, because the moment had been cut off. We came looking
	 for legends-- the jazz clubs the jam sessions\, the all-night dances 
	-- but we didn't find them. I took my guitar and sang in the subway\, 
	looking for the moment." In 1998 he was signed to his first record dea
	l (Wicklow/BMG). The recording\, "songs from a little blue house" prod
	uced by the legendary engineer/producer John Fischbach\, was a tribute
	 to the house in Oriente province where Juan-Carlos's grandmother had 
	lived as a child. His years of struggle in exile were vindicated when 
	this debut CD received a Grammy nomination in 2000. His next release\,
	 "las calles del paraiso" (EMI Latin 2002)\, also produced by John Fis
	chbach\, was the critically-acclaimed concept album that Formell descr
	ibes as "the soundtrack of an imaginary movie" about a day and night i
	n the city of Havana. Then\, after several years of touring with his b
	and and some major concerts -- with Buena Vista Social Club veteran El
	iades Ochoa\, and world music stars Cesaria Evora\, Milton Nascimento 
	and Susana Baca -- Juan-Carlos decided to take on the challenge of a s
	olo guitar project. Inspired by a sojourn in New Orleans\, Juan-Carlos
	 returned to the Crescent City in May of 2005 to record "cemeteries & 
	desire"\, which was released by Narada Records in August 2005. The alb
	um features powerful original ballads -- songs now haunted by the deva
	station of the city. A recent project is "son radical"\, the spontaneo
	us combustion of rock en clave that came out of Los Angeles recording 
	sessions with two other exceptional Cuban musicians -- drummer/produce
	r Jimmy Branly (of NG la Banda) and bassist Carlitos del Puerto (of Ca
	ravana Cubana). Channeling the writing of Cuban negrista poet Nicolas 
	Guillen\, Cuban patriot Jose Marti\, and the African roots of the Cari
	bbean experience\, son radical creates a lyrical\, politically-charged
	 dimension of contemporary Cuban music. At the Blue Note\, Juan-Carlos
	 will present his brand new project\, "Johnny's Dream Club." The cabar
	et Johnny's Dream Club was a small masterpiece of modernist architectu
	re at the beach outside Havana where the jazzistas went to play and ha
	ng out after their work night was over. What you'd often hear there wa
	s el Filin (Cuban for "feeling")\, a cool undercurrent in the Havana m
	usic scene of the 1950s. A precursor to and influence upon bossa nova\
	, el Filin's jazz-infused ballads emerged in the late 1940s from the i
	ntimate after-hours clubs of Central Havana. Feeling's free-style guit
	ar with progressive harmonies and diminished chords reflected the urba
	nity and sophistication of bohemian Black musicians: composer/guitaris
	ts Jose Antonio Mendez and Portillo de la Luz\; pianist Peruchin and B
	ebo Valdes\; singers Elena Burke and Omara Portuondo. For Formell\, "J
	ohnny's Dream Club" also represents a state of mind -- "the little clu
	b where jazz musicians got together after hours and met new people to 
	exchange ideas and create something new -- you have to keep doing that
	 wherever you go." 
LOCATION:Blue Note @ New York, United States
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