I am reposting Bruce Wallace’s blog based on last year’s Bachata Legend’s concert at CUNY Graduate Center. In that concert I had the pleasure of sharing stage with Bachata legends Ramon Cordero and Edilio Paredes. Mr. Wallace, thank you so much for your support to World Music.
A couple new Global Hits on The World in the past month.
Hüsnü Şenlendirici is a big-deal Turkish clarinetist whose recorded output sometimes tends towards the New Agey, but was way more old-agey when Julia and I saw him in Philadelphia at the end of October. The show was part of Al Bustan Seeds of Culture‘s 2012-2013 season. Here’s the story I filed for The World.
I first got into Bachata a couple years ago when I was working at WYPR in Baltimore and a few of the newly resurfaced legends of the music came to play at Artscape. I recently got back in touch with Benjamin de Menil, the guy who put on that show and runs iASO Records, a label largely devoted to bachata. He told me about an upcoming bachata show he was putting on in Manhattan, mixing a two generations of bachateros…
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