Hamburg
Descarga Latina
Hamburg seven-piece playing Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban descarga. Regulars at Cotton Club and Birdland. The Poncho Sánchez, Tito Puente and Dizzy Gillespie catalogue, live.
From
Hamburg
musicians
7
The band
Descarga Latina is one of Hamburg’s most consistent Latin jazz outfits. Seven musicians coming from jazz and son, with a horn section up front (alto sax, trumpet, trombone) and a full rhythm section (piano, bass, congas, drums) that moves from open descarga to tight mambo without switching personnel.
What they play
Material from the Cuban-New York catalogue that made Latin jazz what it is: Poncho Sánchez carrying the descarga into California rooms in the eighties, Tito Puente turning the mambo into a genre of its own, Dizzy Gillespie opening bebop to the African clave. Their own arrangements, never note-for-note covers.
Where they’ve played
Cotton Club, Birdland, and other Hamburg jazz rooms. Flexible format: from intimate quartet to the full seven-piece with brass.
Coming up at Cuadra 7
No confirmed dates right now.