Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto performing in NYPL Duke Jazz Series, November 21, free!

The November installation of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Duke Jazz Series, concerts highlighting jazz ensembles selected from the Chamber Music America’s “New Works” program, features the Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto with special guests Harvey Wainapel and Felipe Salles.
The concert will be held on Friday, November 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 111 Amsterdam Avenue @ 65th Street. The program is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. For more information, please call (212) 870.1793.

Jovino Santos Neto, hailed for his brilliant and intuitive style, is a Brazilian pianist, flutist, and composer whose inspiration comes from Brazilian musical traditions, including African and Portuguese, as well as classical forms. In 2004, Jovino Santos Neto’s Canto do Rio was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Record, and in 2006, Roda Carioca was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Record. This program is part of the Third Annual Latin American Cultural Week (LACW), a celebration of Latin American arts and artists, with music, theater, visual arts, literature, and lectures in venues throughout New York City from November 5 through 21. LACW is a program of PAMAR (Pan American Musical Art Research), founded and directed by Uruguayan pianist Polly Ferman. For more information, visit www.pamar.org.

The Duke Jazz Series is part of the two-year Library for the Performing Arts’ project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to present, document, and preserve jazz, contemporary dance, and theater performances and related oral histories.