LATIN JAZZ CONCERT COMMEMORATING THE MIAMI DADE COLLEGE
KENDALL CAMPUS' 40TH ANNIVERSARY IS SOLD OUT
Sold-out Latin Jazz Festival presented by GEICO, Friday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m.
MIAMI, October 30, 2007- For 40 years, Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Kendall Campus has made a world of difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands in Miami-Dade County. For one night in mid-November, legendary jazz greats, including Arturo Sandoval and Nestor Torres, will make history and join the MDC community in commemorating the Kendall Campus’ rich tradition.
The sold-out Latin Jazz Festival presented by GEICO, a free event with tickets, will be held on Friday, Nov. 16. Among the performers are Torres, a world renowned jazz flautist and Latin Grammy Award winner and Grammy nominee and Sandoval, a renowned classical artist, jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer who has captured four Grammys, six Billboard Awards and an Emmy. The latter is for his work on the entire score of the HBO movie based on his life, “For Love or Country,” starring actor and MDC alumnus Andy Garcia.
And the MDC faculty will also join the jazz jam. Saxophonist and MDC professor Ed Calle is known for his ability to play bebop, Latin and contemporary jazz. He appears on Grammy-award-winning albums by Frank Sinatra, Vicky Carr, Arturo Sandoval, and Jon Secada, as well as on numerous television and motion picture soundtracks. He also has recorded and performed around the world with such artists as Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Michael Bolton, Bob James, Bobby Caldwell, Rhianna, and Vanessa Williams. Calle has been nominated for two Grammys.
Also, performing will be Roberto Perera, a 2003 Latin Grammy nominee, who has earned his reputation as a pioneer of the electro-acoustic harp. In 1994 he was awarded Billboard’s Best Contemporary Latin Jazz Album of the Year.
Other performers at the festival will include José Negroni, Edwin Bonilla, Richard Bravo, and Gary Keller.
This event, sponsored by GEICO, is now sold out.
For more information, call 305-237- 2131or visit www.mdc.edu/kendall40th.
Media contacts: Beverly C. Rodrigues, MDC director of media relations (305) 237-3949 or Juan Mendieta, MDC director of communications (305) 237-7611.