Apitos July 22, 2011

A celebratory opening to this year’s Manchester Jazz Festival: Apitos perform a ‘best of’ selection from their repertoire developed over 27 years of championing South American and Cuban music.

The joyful sounds and rhythms of Latin America pervade the music of Apitos, whether it's the clavé-inspired dance rhythms of rumba, cha cha and mambo, the happy feeling of calypso and plena or the beauty of samba, batucada or frevo. The band draws on material from Latin jazz arrangements, as well as a selection of music from their Made in Manchester suite, celebrating à la Cuba the music of Joy Division, The Smiths and many others, with percussion and improvisation to the fore.

A Manchester Jazz Festival Event.

Official Website: http://crd.fm/Gs