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Let’s play it Latin: The heartbeat of Latin America, Swing, and the African Diaspora.

Join the Bay Area Latin Soul project as they explore the origins of this strange misnomer (“play it Latin”), while enjoying the music of the Caribbean and Americas rooted in West African rhythmic tradition joined with music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the US.

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Jazz Inside Out: Vince De Jesus and Bay Area Latin Soul – Let’s Play It Latin

Braun Music Center

Vincent De Jesus is a drummer, percussionist and teaching artist with roots in Mexico and Puerto Rico from San Antonio, Texas. Currently living in San Francisco, Vincent leads the Bay Area Latin Soul Project, a kaleidoscopic group fusing the Afro-Caribbean styles of Cuba and Puerto Rico with Black American music from the US like jazz, funk and hip-hop.

Valerie Troutt is an amazing vocal artist based in Oakland, California. Steeped in gospel and jazz, Valerie is a musical collagist, borrowing from ancestral centuries of sound, channeling spirits, and delivering the stories of our love, loss, and lives. There’s a light in this unapologetically unconventional artist/teacher/activist for whom art and activism are intertwined. Within this spiritual and social justice-driven performer is a lifelong hunger for craft, for connection, for cultural narratives and an indefatigable thirst to serve as an agape griot to a waiting people.

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Vincent De Jesus

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Past events

May 5, 2023

Jazz Inside Out: Vince De Jesus and Bay Area Latin Soul – Let’s Play It Latin · Stanford University Department of Music

Jul 10, 2022

Bay Area Latin Soul Project/Valerie Troutt · Stanford Jazz Workshop

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