MUSIC ; For Bassist Perez, Afro-Cuban Roots Take Hold of Flamenco
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By BOB YOUNG  Alain Perez's journey out of Cuba was prompted by the same desires that drove fellow Cuban jazz musicians Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval to leave the island: to find a better life and a better way to make the music he loved.
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Rodrigo y Gabriela fuse Latin-flavored acoustic guitar with heavy metal anthems. (Think Mariachi and Metallica.)
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For 43 years, the Mets have been a relatively white team reflecting the suburbs. Now, with Omar Minaya and Pedro Martinez, talent and desire speak Spanish.
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To Met fans who had grown used to the baritonal colorings of PlÃ¡cido Domingo's Otello, Ben Heppner's true-tenor sound will be a revelation.
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Andy Beyâs voice is still an extraordinary instrument, capable of foggy depths, penetrating highs and a sort of mezzo-falsetto that stretches his supple baritone into the alto range.
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Cuban musicians, family and friends remembered the island's most famous conga drummer, Tata Guines, as he was buried outside Havana on Tuesday after a six decade career that helped popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms worldwide.
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Kristjan Jarviâs ensemble supported and furthered the eveningâs explorations of world music with a robust and often free-blowing sound.
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Flamenco has become one of the New York area's favorite dance forms, as proven by this weekend's festival and scattered programs throughout the year.
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Composer Bharadwaj has come up with a foot-tapping album.
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The Sphinx Organization, a national nonprofit, works to increase minority participation in classical music.
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Performed Tuesday by the Madrid troupe CompaÃ±Ã­a Nacional de Danza, âWhite Darkness,â an American premiere, shows Nacho Duato bedeviled by conflicting abstract and narrative impulses.
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In Jordi Savallâs hands virtuosic passages from both bowed and pizzicato form were equally vivid and brisk in his performance of works by Tobias Hume on Wednesday.
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Alberto Otero moved from Puerto Rico to Washington as a boy and grew up listening to the old salsa records his parents played to remind them of home.
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Music inspired and made by Spanish Gypsies, Colombians grappling with the effects of war, and internacionalistas making music for the age of globalization had one thing in common this year: fusing old and new ...
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Some music is tailor-made for open-topped convertibles.
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Since Cuban musicians, and drummers in particular, have played such a strong and complicated role in jazzâs history, the Cuban drummer Francisco Melaâs new quintet seems almost unfairly significant from the start.
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The latest musical style to target  young, bilingual Latin audiences is urban bachata, the blend of  traditional Dominican bachata and R&B that first gained  notoriety with Aventura.