Anibal Seminario Quintet + Special Guest Cecilia Noël

Afro Latin Jazz with Special Guest Cecilia Noël

ABOUT CECILIA NOEL: A Peruvian-born Latin music artist, began singing at age 11. She then studied music in Argentina, and later in Heidelberg, Germany, before returning to Lima at age 14. There, “legendary jazz performer Stan Getz saw her perform, and a year later he invited her to New York to live with his family. She moved to the United States in the late 1980s, settling in Los Angeles in 1989, and debuted in the early 1990s with her band, The Wild Clams. A band that combines salsa, soul, jazz, funk, and Afro-Cuban traditions.

ABOUT ANIBAL SEMINARIO: A Latin Grammy and Grammy-nominated Peruvian producer, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator based in Los Angeles. His release Tradiciones received two Latin Grammy nominations and a Grammy nomination. He is a current member of the celebrated Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. Anibal performs and tours internationally with artists such as Googoosh, Eva Ayllón, and Alex Acuña, with appearances all over the world Anibal is currently the head of the Jazz Department at Irvine Valley College.

Doors 7pm