If you head over to Harvard this Saturday night, you'll have a rare chance to hear, for a modest price, two modern masters of Afro-Cuban jazz bang out Dizzy Gillespie's masterpiece "Manteca," Stan Kenton's quirky "The Peanut Vendor," and a whole lot more great Latin jazz. Trumpeter and drummer/percussionist will perform at 8pm in with the Harvard Jazz Orchestra.
has played with the legendary for the past 20 years. In addition to deep roots in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz worlds, Lynch has strong ties to the straight ahead, post-bop tradition. He's been a part of quintet for the past 15 years and joined the final incarnation of (it would take the balance of this post to list the jazz greats who have served with the Messengers, Blakey's "graduate school of jazz").
And Lynch is joined by South Bronx (Fort Apache) native and Berklee alum Bobby Sanabria, who's has played with the likes of Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Mario Bauza, and Dizzy Gillespie.
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