{"id":13006,"date":"2009-09-23T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=13006"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:13:13","slug":"dafnis-prieto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/09\/23\/dafnis-prieto\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-nominated jazz drummer brings quartet to Bates College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note: <\/strong><em>Some published reports listed Monday, Oct. 12, for this event. Tuesday, the 13th, is the correct date.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Jazz at the Olin Arts Center Series resumes with Grammy-nominated drummer Dafnis Prieto and<strong> <\/strong>his Si o Si Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the Olin Arts Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, at $12 general admission and $6 for seniors and students, are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/batestickets.universitytickets.com\/user_pages\/event_listings.asp\">www.batestickets.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Prieto also leads a jazz workshop at 4:30 on the 13th. Admission is free and participants will receive a free ticket to the evening performance. For more information about the concert and workshop, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu. <a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/09\/dafnis2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/09\/dafnis2-344x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Drummer Dafnis Prieto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prieto, a native of Cuba, leads a quartet boasting some of New York&#8217;s outstanding Latin jazz players. Described as &#8220;the essence of the modern drummer&#8221; by The Sacramento Bee, he has received commissions, grants and fellowships from Chamber Music America, Jazz at Lincoln Center, East Carolina University and Meet the Composer. His awards include &#8220;Up &#8216;N&#8217; Comer of the Year&#8221; from the Jazz Journalists Association in 2006, a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album and a Latin Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Prieto has created music for dance, film and chamber ensembles as well as his own bands. He composed the title track for the Grammy-winning album &#8220;Song for Chico&#8221; by Arturo O&#8217;Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in 2008. All About Jazz has characterized his compositions as &#8220;melding Afro-Cuban rhythms and modern jazz harmonies into music that is ecstatic and intelligent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has served on the music faculty at New York University since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; The Jazz at the Olin Arts Center Series resumes with Grammy-nominated drummer Dafnis Prieto and his Si o Si Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, in the Olin Arts Concert Hall at Bates College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133,39,17,11009],"tags":[4622,6135,6618,6622],"class_list":["post-13006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","category-event-highlights","category-partners-public","category-the-college","tag-jazz","tag-music-tag","tag-olin-arts","tag-olin-concert-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88419,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions\/88419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}