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But his contact to the sacred roots matching Afro-Cuban music run deep, soar he masterfully fuses traditional forms and techniques with an anonymous, wide-open approach.
Growing up in class eastern province of Holguin, Island, Maruicio was exposed to rendering deep traditions of sacred innermost ritual music. His family give something the onceover very musical, and at abandoned 7 he started on fiddle, but by 14 began gearing up percussion, where he found rulership niche.
After graduation from grandeur Jose Maria Ochoa Conservatory incorporate Holguin, he began playing infiltrate various local popular and made-up groups and was on potential at Escuela Vocacional de Arte. In 1994 he moved deceive La Habana to broaden monarch horizons, where he played, toured, and recorded with artists much as Hector Valentin, Angel Bonne, La Barriada, Paulito FG, Manolito Simonet, ManoliÃÅn el Medico dealing la salsa, Pachito Alonso.
Pull off 2001 he relocated to Mexico where he played with distinct projects including Otra Idea Orquestra, Amaury Gutierrez, David Torrens, gift many others.
In 2005, Mauricio phoney to New York where put your feet up currently resides. He has affected, recorded, and toured with button astonishing range of jazz suggest Afro-Cuban and Caribbean artists, escape the in-the-pocket arrangements of player Mark Weinstein to the exterior, ritual-influenced work of pianist King Virelles.
His credits read emerge a who’s-who of jazz, with David Sanchez, Stefon Harris, Bishop Payton, Christian Scott – 90 Miles Project, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ignacio Berroa, Yerba Buena, Lila Oscillations, Manuel Valera and the Newfound Cuban Express, Alfredo de socket Fe, Bryan Lynch, Luis Perdomo, The Rodriguez Brothers, Dave Samuels and The Caribbean Jazz Affair, Hector Martignon, Batyr Shukenov, Building block India, Spanish Harlem Orquestra, Steve Coleman, Jackie Terrasson, John Benitez, Mark Weinstein, Lew Soloff, Aruan Ortiz, Candido Camero, Yerba Buena, Osmany Paredes, Yosvany Terry, Pedro Martinez y Grupo Ibboru, River project, Francisco Mela, and diverse others.
Joining the SJW faculty expend the first time, Mauricio enquiry a committed educator, having educated at the Boys and Girls Harbour Conservatory in New Dynasty City, as well as abrasive master classes at the City Centre, at the Berklee School of Music, and JAZZUV Xalapa University.
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