With his astounding guitar technique and sultry rhythms, Jesse Cook is a master of the contemporary rumba flamenca sound. Tracing this musical tradition from its roots in Cuba and South America to its present Spanish home, he smoothly blends the many influences into a bewitching sound that has propelled him to the forefront of this international style. Those new to the intoxicating Latin rhythms of rumba flamenca will be quickly placed under the spell of Cook’s passionate guitar work, Moorish rhythms, and smoldering on-stage charisma.
Added by Bankhead Theater on July 19, 2012