Dayramir Gonzalez

Dayramir Gonzalez
Dayramir Gonzalez
Birth name	Dayramir Gonzalez Vicet
Born	Havana, Cuba
Genres	Afro-Cuban jazz, jazz, contemporary Cuban
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, arranger, producer
Instruments	Piano
Labels	Colibrí
Associated acts	Dayramir & Habana enTRANCE, Klimax, Habana d'Primera
Website	dayramirgonzalez.com

Dayramir Gonzalez Vicet is a Cuban pianist, composer, arranger, and producer.

In 2004 he formed his own project Dayramir & Habana enTRANCé, which has performed internationally since its inception.^[1]^[2]

While still attending Berklee College of Music, in 2012, he was selected by Chucho Valdes, a mentor to Gonzalez, to be part of Carnegie Hall's Voices of Latin America series, where he represented, along with Aldo Lopez-Gavilan the young generation of Afro-Cuban jazz pianists.^[3] According to his website, he now lives in the South Bronx.

Awards and recognition[]

Featured in the award-winning book Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance, he is considered a main proponent of continuing the tradition of Cuban music as he combines "formal elements of standard jazz practice...with elements of the danzón."^[4] He is among the few Cuban jazz artists rescuing the danzón and "reinventing the genre on the basis of diverse constructions of identity."^[5]

Discography[]

2007: Dayramir & Habana enTRANCE (Colibrí Productions)
2008: Solo tu y yo - Giraldo Piloto & Klimax (EGREM)
2009: Todo Esta Bien - Giraldo Piloto & Klimax (Bis Music)
2011: Octave (Jazz Revelation Records)
2018: The Grand Concourse (Machat Records)

References[]

^ "Dayramir Gonzalez y Habana enTRANCE". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^ "Dayramir and Habana enTRANCE Aldo López-Gavilán Quartet". Carnegie Hall. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
^ "Cuban Exports Fill the Hall". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^ Madrid, Alejandro L. and Moore, Robin D. (2013). Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance, p. 241. OUP USA, New York. ISBN 978-0199965823.
^ Shepherd, John and Horn, David (2014). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 9, p. 276. Bloomsbury Academic, New York. ISBN 1441141979.

External links[]

[1] "Dayramir Gonzalez y Habana enTRANCE". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2 September 2015.

[2] "Dayramir and Habana enTRANCE Aldo López-Gavilán Quartet". Carnegie Hall. Retrieved 2 August 2015.

[3] "Cuban Exports Fill the Hall". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2 September 2015.

[4] Madrid, Alejandro L. and Moore, Robin D. (2013). Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance, p. 241. OUP USA, New York. ISBN 978-0199965823.

[5] Shepherd, John and Horn, David (2014). Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 9, p. 276. Bloomsbury Academic, New York. ISBN 1441141979.

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