Mahaba Jazz Artists
Latin/World/Female Jazz Band

Featuring Jamie Shadowlight, Turiya Mareya, Monette Marino, Evona Wascinski

September 29 at 7:30 pm
Anthology
$15

In 2000 Turiya Mareya assembled several of the most important female jazz artists in San Diego. The group included Turiya Mareya, Linda Kent, Monette Marino, Jamie Shadowlight, and Lynn Copeland. The group performed to enthusiastic response in San Diego festivals and venues and was featured at the San Diego jazz Live. Just after that drummer Linda Kent died suddenly and deeply grieved the group disbanded and all the artists went on to develop successful and active careers.

This renuion show is in the memory of Linda Kent. Mike Holguin will be taking her place on drums. Dave Millard will also be a guest artist on Sax.

ANTHOLOGY
1337 India Street
San Diego, California 92101

TURIYA MAREYA

Turiya Mareya is one of a very rare breed, a Female Jazz Instrumentalist and Composer who has pursued a career playing Latin and World Jazz . music. Turiya began studying Jazz at 15 years of age and was mentored by San Diego Jazz legend Daniel Jackson. Mareya followed his example by becoming proficient on piano and focusing on playing her original compositions. She continued her work in New York, studying at the Creative School of Music. Later she toured Mexico with the Tambu International Ensemble . She began to form and lead her own groups and to tour with various artists. She was the musical director for The Kokopelli Latin Jazz Ensemble For 6 years the group held a Sunday nightspot at Croce’s Jazz Bar in San Diego and performed at many Jazz Festivals opening for artists such as Arturo Sandoval, David Murray, Eddie Palmieri, Poncho Sanchez and Jane Bunnet. In 2003 she began touring full time performing in festivalas and venues in Alaska, Canada, Spain, Mexico and California.

Mareya My Space

JAMIE SHADOWLIGHT

This emerging young artist is a well known face on the San Diego Jazz Scene producing creative musical events as well as playing acoustic and electric violin. She is a prolific composer and recording artist with 2 CD’s as a leader. She is also a featured artist with many San Diego groups, lending her lovely sound to all genres of Jazz.

Monette Mo

Monette Marino Keita, a world percussionist, has spent the last 25 years studying and performing traditional and popular rhythms from Cuba, Brazil, West Africa and Korea. Since 1994 she has performed with many San Diego bands ranging from jazz to calypso, salsa, reggae, disco, hip-hop and R&B. In 2001 she won the National Hand Drum Off competition sponsored by the Guitar Center and for the past 3 years has been touring the world with Master Drummer Mamady Keita in his group Sewa Kan. This year she released her first album titled “Coup d’Eclat” which was nominated for Best World Music Album by the San Diego Music Academy. In this album she weaves African and Latin rhythms and melodies into Funk, Rock and Jazz grooves.

Monette Marino Website

EVONA WASCINSKI

Polish born bassist Evona Wascinski started her musical education on piano. In her early teens, she picked up the electric bass in order to pursue rock and pop genres, playing and doing small touring with some of San Diego’s best noted pop artist. She discovered the double bass, falling deeply in love with its big sound and resonance and began formally studying at the age of 18. Evona earned a B.A. in Music from the University of California, San Diego emphisizing in Classical and Jazz Performance. She has had the honor of studing with world renoun double bassists, composers and professors Bertram Turetzky and Mark Dresser. She has been a long standing member of La Jolla Symphony and has worked in various big bands, duos, trio’s and combos in genres including Jazz, Latin, Brazilian, Tango, Classical and Acid Jazz.

EVONA MYSPACE

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Live at in Tijuana July 18th 7:30 pm Festival de Tijuana en Calle Revolucion Plaza Santa Cecilia y Calle Revolucion 2nd Annual  Festival Multi-Arte 2010 This three day festival features the best of Tijuana’s music, visual arts, theatre and dance. Turiya Mareya Pianist and composer , Turiya Mareya’s music is based on World Music influences and draws on the trance inducing and spirit calling focus of African and Indigenous music. She has shared the stage with such artists such as Arturo Sandoval, David Murray, Eddie Palmieri, Poncho Sanchez and Jane Bunnet. Since 2003 she has been touring and performing internationally. She has performed at Venues and Festivals in Madrid, Havana, Toronto, Vancouver, Juneau, Anchorage, Mexico City, Jalapa, Tijuana and San Diego. Santiago Santuiste Born in Mantanzas Cuba , Santiago played percussion since he was a child in the Rumba tradition of his musical family. He  graduated from the school or Arts in Cuba. He has been traveling internationally sharing his love of Cuban music. Felipe Garcia Felipe Garcia began playing in Merida, Yucatan with the group Astro Rumberos. He relocated to Tijuana and since then has played extensively in all major venues and festivals becoming a drummer in great demand in the Baja. Julian Placencia One of the most important Tijuana music artists Julian Placencia  performs on electric and baby bass. His group Baja Jazz performs to sold out crowds. He recently toured Israel with the International ensemble. He is known for his powerful sound, creative solos and rock hard sense of time. Ivan Trujillo Based in Ensenada Mexico Ivan Trujillo is a rising star. He works regularly with Ensenada Jazz, Baja Jazz and many other groups  and is the Arts Director of the Ensenada Art Walk and the CultureBeat Jazz Descarga. He demonstrates technical mastery and a deep understanding of the Jazz Genre .

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Turiya Mareya hosts a WorldBeat Jam session at CultureBeat performance Center in Ensenada

Jazz has been influenced greatly by the cultures of Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean all reflecting the African diaspora. Jazz has been one of the major sources of global unity and there is a continuous exciting fusion of world cultures keeping the music alive and constantly growing.

On June 2010 Turiya Mareya will begin an ongoing Wednesday night WorldBeat Jam Session at The Cutture Beat Performance Center in Ensenada which will feature some of Baja’s great Jazz artists ,including vocalists and instrumentalists, performing in the WorldBeat and Latin Jazz genres.This provides an opportunity for the Youth and world music and Jazz communities of Ensenada to have an opportunity to experience playing with a Latin band as well as experimenting with African and world music influences.

CultureBeat Performance Center promotes and presents a cross cultural exchange etween traditional cultures of the world through music, art, dance and education.

TURIYA MAREYA
Turiya Mareya’s music is based on World Music influences and draws on the trance inducing and spirit calling focus of African and Indigenous music. She has shared the stage with such artists such as Arturo Sandoval, David Murray, Eddie Palmieri, Poncho Sanchez and Jane Bunnet. Since 2003 she has been touring and performing internationally. She has performed at Venues and Festivals in Madrid, Havana, Toronto, Vancouver, Juneau, Anchorage, Mexico City, Jalapa, Tijuana and San Diego.

Culture Beat Mexico 

Latin Jazz Pianist Turiya Mareya Launches a New Weekly Jam Session at Hermann’s

Latin jazz pianist Turiya Mareya, who hails from Mexico but has spent a good chunk of time in Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria, is on a mission to bring, as she puts it, “a new community” to Hermann’s Jazz Club in Victoria.

Mareya, who first came to Canada in 2005 in search of another female Latin jazz pianist (Vancouver’s Kathy Kidd, who, unbeknownst to Mareya, had passed away five years earlier), found instead a whole country that has embraced her. “Victoria and Canada have been so good to me and I just wanted to give back to the city,” she says.

Giving back means creating a gift that will keep on giving in the form of an established worldbeat and Latin jazz jam session every Sunday night that Mareya hopes will draw younger players and a more ethnically diverse audience into the club and get them interested in jazz.

“It’s a fantastic venue,” she says of Hermann’s, noting that club owner Hermann Nieweler is incredibly open to new ideas. “He’s really young at heart,” she notes, adding that he is fully supportive of the sessions that begin Sunday, May 3 at 8pm.

Mareya thinks a lot of younger people who might otherwise come to the club are intimidated by the seriousness and complexity of mainstream jazz. “A lot of kids would like to get into jazz, would like to improvise, but they feel intimidated because they don’t know the tunes.” To counter this, she plans to set up a descarga (a Latin jam session) each night, that is far less formal than a traditional jam, and won’t require that players already know certain standards.

Players will find a rhythm section already in place that will create the jazz equivalent of hip hop “beats”, something Mareya points out young people really understand. “The youth can relate to this because they are all into hip hop…actually we’re going to be setting up beats with live musicians,” adding that the kids (largely university students) can then come and try improvising to these rhythms.

Mareya, who has a lot of respect for traditional jam sessions such as the one that has been run by Tom Vickery for years, says the descarga produces “more of a body music” that emphasizes danceable rhythms that are as important in world music as melody and harmony are in mainstream jazz. As such, it’s less intellectual and more approachable for people unfamiliar with the jazz idiom.

At the same time she emphasizes, “we’re going to play the tunes,” specifically standards like Night in Tunisia and others that can be performed in a Latin jazz format.

Mareya, who organized the recent Latin Jazz Festival at Hermann’s that featured Canadian jazz great Jane Bunnett and did an earlier show back in the winter with Adonis Puentes, also plans to draw more attention to local women players by including a women’s showcase. “I really think it’s so important that women’s voices are heard, and I really love empowering women and giving them an opportunity on an equal basis.”

During May and June, each evening will open with a set by one of these players, followed by the open jam session. The event has attracted some powerful performers including Maureen Washington, Louise Rose and Anna Lyman who will appear in May along with other performers.

Mareya says that her main goals are to “enlarge our palate in Victoria” and “build community,” although she does confess to a certain selfish motivation as well in that she really wants to enjoy her last two months in Victoria before she heads off on a major tour of Israel, Egypt, and Europe before returning to Mexico for a time.

Fortunately for the local jazz scene, she does plan to return to Victoria next year and guitarist David Harding will continue organizing the descargas while she is away.

Check out the Hermann’s calendar at www.hermannsjazz.com for more information. As well, you can learn more about Turiya Mareya and hear some of her music at http://www.myspace.com/mareya

– Rick Gibbs

© 2009 Rick Gibbs and Island Jazz

WorldBeat Jam Session and Women’s Showcase
In May 2009 Hermann’s Jazz Club will begin an ongoing Sunday night WorldBeat Jam Session In May and June the first hour of every Sunday will be a Women’s Jazz Showcase hosted by Pianist Turiya Mareya featuring some of of Victoria’s Women Jazz artists,including vocalists and instrumentalists, performing in the WorldBeat and Latin Jazz genres.

Cost $10 (Jam Session Participants Free)

This provides an opportunity for the Youth and world music communities of Victoria to have an opportunity to experience playing with a Latin band as well as experimenting with African and world music influences.

Jazz has been influenced greatly by the cultures of Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean all reflecting the African diaspora. Jazz has been one of the major sources of global unity and there is a continuous exciting fusion of world cultures keeping the music alive and constantly growing.

Adonis Puentes is a key personality in the ever expanding Latin music scene. He opens up the marvelous world of Cuban music to his audiences the second they hear his rich voice.
Adonis has shared stages with illustrious Latin music legends like Celia Cruz, Oscar De Leon, Juan De Marcos and The Afro Cuban All Stars, Orlando Valle ‘Maraca,’ Cuban Timba All Stars, Pianist Hilario Duran, Jane Bunnett and Pancho Quinto.

Gilberto, or “Gilbertónn,” has performed as a drummer/timbaleros with nearly every major group in Cuba in virtually every musical genre: from straight ahead jazz to traditional Cuban styles; from funk to rock, to Latin fusion. He is best known internationally for the “funk-in-clave” style of Afro-Cuban ‘Salsa’ known as Timba.

Pianist Turiya Mareya has performed internationally in Festivals and Venues in Canada, Europe, Mexico and the US. Her Compositions and playing reflects her deep love of Cuban music.