Name: The Latination
Brand: StarClinch
SKU: 3cf166c6b73f
Rating: 4.4 (100 reviews)

The&nbsp;Latination&nbsp;is one of the only&nbsp;virtuoso&nbsp;and genuine&nbsp;salsa&nbsp;and&nbsp;Latin-jazz&nbsp;band&nbsp;in&nbsp;India. The&nbsp;quartet&nbsp;is a&nbsp;soulful and powerful&nbsp;combination of&nbsp;French&nbsp;and&nbsp;Indian&nbsp;specialists&nbsp;of&nbsp;jazz&nbsp;and Latin&nbsp;music. The&nbsp;Latination&nbsp;has already performed all over&nbsp;India and received accolades and great&nbsp;critics&nbsp;from audiences&nbsp;and&nbsp;fellow&nbsp;musicians. Its repertoire ranges from salsa and&nbsp;rumba&nbsp;to&nbsp;modern jazz,&nbsp;blending the dance-compelling power&nbsp;of&nbsp;Afro-Latin&nbsp;rhythms&nbsp;with the&nbsp;dense&nbsp;harmonies&nbsp;and sophisticated&nbsp;melodies. Emmanuel Simon&nbsp;is a&nbsp;versatile musician from Paris, initially trained as a western classical pianist. He has received his academic degrees in Western Musicology, Western Classical and Modern Music. He also has a masters&rsquo; degree in Instrumental Music from&nbsp;Rabindra&nbsp;Bharati&nbsp;University, Kolkata, and is now attending a Ph.D. on Bengali Folk Percussions. He is nowadays a multi-talented percussionist. He has a wide knowledge in various musical cultures such as western, West African, Afro-Cuban and Indian percussions. He has performed with many French and Latin masters of Latin music. He has also been performing in Europe and South Asia with many different artists as well. In India, he has performed in various auditoriums such as&nbsp;Kamani&nbsp;Auditorium (Delhi),&nbsp;Chowdia&nbsp;Hall (Bangalore),&nbsp;Birla&nbsp;Sabhaghar&nbsp;(Kolkata), Blue Frog (Delhi), etc. and at various festivals such World Percussion Festival (Delhi), Kolkata Jazz Festival,&nbsp;Bengaluru&nbsp;International Arts Festival, Calcutta International Dance Fiesta, etc. His music through his compositions has even been broadcasted on different TV channels in USA, Japan and Europe. Pradyumna&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;Manot&nbsp;a.k.a. Paddy (keyboards) is one of India&#39;s most talented jazzmen and piano player. Since childhood, he has been extensively studying Western Classical, jazz, Latin, Latin-jazz and North Indian classical music. He has been a regular artist of the Congo Square Jazz Festival for past 8 years. He has also performed abroad including the world&#39;s biggest jazz festival, The Java Jazz Festival where he&nbsp;was appreciated by some of the great names of jazz such including George Benson, Roy&nbsp;Hargrove&nbsp;and Joey de Francesco. He has performed with many jazz artists, star bassist and Indian guitar legends. Paddy is also a founder member of the Latin-jazz bands Los Amigos and&nbsp;Jazzeando. He is also associated with the Salsa dance institute named Mambo City. Premjit&nbsp;Dutta&nbsp;(Timbales)&nbsp;is a bright percussionist of a new generation. He started his musical journey training on&nbsp;tabla, graduated eventually receiving&nbsp;Sangeet&nbsp;Bisharod&nbsp;in&nbsp;Tabla&nbsp;from&nbsp;Bangiya&nbsp;Sangeet&nbsp;Parishad. He then started studying Western Music, graduating in&nbsp;Drumkit&nbsp;and Theory of Music from Trinity College and Royal College. He has also been studying Afro-Cuban percussion from the veteran&nbsp;conguero,&nbsp;Monojit&nbsp;Datta. He is currently teaching&nbsp;Drumkit&nbsp;and Theory of Music at Calcutta School of Music (CSM), Calcutta&nbsp;Centre&nbsp;for Communication and Creativity (C4) and St Xavier&rsquo;s School in Kolkata. He has recorded and performed in India and abroad with Los Amigos (latin-jazz), The&nbsp;Bodhisattva&nbsp;Ghosh&nbsp;Trio (jazz-fusion). He has also worked as session musician across India in major festivals and events. He is presently working with alternative/indie outfit Camouflage (brit-pop), jazz-funk band No Idea, the Big Family Blues Ensemble, etc. Also, he is a regular artist in All India Radio. Bijit&nbsp;Bhattacharya&nbsp;(bass guitar)&nbsp;is one of the most talented bass players in Kolkata, involved in studio sessions as well as the live music scene. He has been a permanent member of bands like&nbsp;Safire, Catch 22, etc. He has also performed with nationally acclaimed folk-fusion act, Friends of Fusion, and also with Latin act,&nbsp;Nukkad&nbsp;Salsa Project and Crayon Joint. He has been playing sessions with and for&nbsp;filmmaker&nbsp;Anjan&nbsp;Dutt, singer/songwriter&nbsp;Anupam&nbsp;Roy and music director&nbsp;Neel&nbsp;Dutt.&nbsp;Bijit&nbsp;is currently making music with&nbsp;Charon, Bee &amp; The&nbsp;Buskers, etc. Guest artist, Megan Powers (vocals) is a singer/songwriter&nbsp;based in New York City. Her jazz career found its start in Igor Butman&rsquo;s iconic Moscow jazz haunt in an impromptu jam session with Igor and his band. She is honored to have sung with the likes of Igor, Jon Christopher Allen, Ben Paterson, the Anthony&nbsp;Cekay&nbsp;Trio, Henry&nbsp;Colle,&nbsp;Drue&nbsp;Barron, Marissa Dwyer, and Paul&nbsp;Beaubrun&nbsp;of Zing&nbsp;Experience. Megan, with her amazing timber, powerful voice, soulful interpretation of jazz standards of any kind as well as her ever steady musical abilities, have made her the part of New York&#39;s new most promising talents and singers.

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