Horatio Hernandez - Horacio Hernandez - Live At The Modern Drummer Festival DVD

Horacio Hernandez is a Grammy Award winner and one of the most talented drummers in the world today. Whether playing with jazz legends like McCoy Tyner or Michel Camilo rock stars like Carlos Santana or Steve Winwood or as member of renowned Latin ensembles like Tito Puente's Tropi-Jazz All Stars El Negro has earned a strong reputation as one of the most powerful and versatile players in the current musical scene. His musical home base is founded on the rhythms of his native Cuba though he is comfortable in all styles. Horacio performs a set of incredible music that... opens with a burning drums and percussion duet and incorporates elements of jazz and Afro-Cuban music in a unique and exciting way Early in 1997 Hernandez traveled to Orvieto Italy to perform at the Umbria Jazz Festival and record with the band Crisoul. Led by trumpeter Roy Hargrove this all-star lineup combined the energies of Hargrove Hernandez Gary Bartz Frank Lacey David Sanchez Changuito Jon Benitez Anga Diaz Russell Malone and Chucho Valdes. Their debut record entitled Habana earned Crisoul a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Record in theLatin Jazz category. During the same period Hernandez recorded the Michel Camilo's release Thru My Eyes with Jon Patitucci and Anthony Jackson. On this record El Negro's true essence is captured on the track A Night in Tunisia. Also during this time Hernandez appeared with McCoy Tyner and his band in San Francisco and recorded and toured with Santana for their 1997 world tour. In 1998 Hernandez set his sights on performing with Latin Crossing a stellar gathering of artists that featured Steve Winwood Arturo Sandoval and Tito Puente. Latin Crossing toured all of the major jazz festivals throughout Europe that summer. Hernandez then went on tour with the John Patitucci Band. In 1998 and 1999 Hernandez found himself recording with an eclectic group of artists including: Santana Gabriella Anders John Patitucci Sergio George Juan Carlos Formell Joanne Brackeen Giovanni Hidalgo and others. Horacio is a member of the faculties of Drummer's Collective and the New School in New York and regularly conducts clinics and workshops at the prestigious Berklee School of Music as well as for Pearl drums and Ziidjian cymbals. He has been a participant in several NAMM shows and was a featured drummer at the Percussive Arts Society's International Convention in 1996. Early in 1998 Hernandez was voted first runner-up as the 1997 Drummer of the Year in Drum magazine''s annual readers poll. [show more]

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