Medici Musica WORLD WEDNESDAYS @ RYLES - Nina Ott 5 January 25, 2006

WORLD WEDNESDAYS @ RYLES - Nina Ott 5

1/25/06 - Nina Ott 5

Nina Ott - Piano, Compositions, Arrangements
with Ralph Peterson, Drums / Equie Castrillo, Percussion, Donny McCaslin, Sax / Chris Lopes, Bass

Composer/pianist Nina Ott leads her Latin jazz quintet in a program of all original and improvised material. Ott and bassist Chris Lopes put together an array of their own compositions of Brazilian and Afro-Cuban infused jazz. Arrangements of composers Milton Nascimento, Edu Lobo and Thelonious Monk will also be featured. The evening will feature drummer Ralph Peterson, conguero Equie Castrillo and Donny MacCaslin on flute and sax. Nina has been performed with numerous musicians from both jazz and latin idioms, including Ralph Peterson, Jesus Andujar, Gerald Cleaver, Mark Turner, Equie Castrillo, Kenwood Dennard, Bernardo Hernandez and Harvey Wirht. Nina has toured Europe, Asia the Caribbean and the Northeastern US.

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