Live from Harlem, The Jazz Foundation Presents: Axel Tosca Trio featuring Xiomara Laugart
March 24, 2022 2:00 pm - March 24, 2022 3:00 pm
Jazz Museum in Harlem | Free
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The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and Jazz Foundation of America presents Axel Tosca Trio featuring Xiomara Laugarte for a virtual concert.
This show will stream live on the Museum and Jazz Foundation Facebook page and the Museum Youtube. For more info, click here»
"A Cuban jazz pianist who is one of New York City's best young timba musicians" (New York Latin Culture Magazine), Axel Tosca leads a trio that blends progressive Jazz, Cuban Timba, and R&B, with a dash of Hip-Hop. Since its founding in 2018, this group has performed at the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Blue Note-Tokyo, Club Metro-Kyoto, Dizzy’s Club NYC, Birdland, NuBlu Jazz Festival, Minton’s PlayHouse, Polyfold Concert Series, The Queens Library and The Urby. For this event they are joined by Tosca's mother, famed Cuban Trova singer Xiomara Laugart. A founding member of the renowned latin fusion band Yerba Buena, Laugart also played the lead role in the 2007 Off-Broadway musical Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz.
Supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
This show will stream live on the Museum and Jazz Foundation Facebook page and the Museum Youtube. For more info, click here»
"A Cuban jazz pianist who is one of New York City's best young timba musicians" (New York Latin Culture Magazine), Axel Tosca leads a trio that blends progressive Jazz, Cuban Timba, and R&B, with a dash of Hip-Hop. Since its founding in 2018, this group has performed at the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Blue Note-Tokyo, Club Metro-Kyoto, Dizzy’s Club NYC, Birdland, NuBlu Jazz Festival, Minton’s PlayHouse, Polyfold Concert Series, The Queens Library and The Urby. For this event they are joined by Tosca's mother, famed Cuban Trova singer Xiomara Laugart. A founding member of the renowned latin fusion band Yerba Buena, Laugart also played the lead role in the 2007 Off-Broadway musical Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz.
Supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
