Havana Carbo
Gladys "Havana" Carbo Flower (actually Gladys Margarita Lourdes Carbo Ramiro Garcia y de la Torre , born February 22, 1935 in Havana , † October 25, 2015 in Stockbridge , Massachusetts ) was an American jazz singer and pianist from Cuba .
Live and act
Carbo grew up in a musical family in Cuba in the 1930s and 40s; when she was three she took piano lessons in the United States, she attended Grover Cleveland High School in Queens ; As a teenager she founded her own vocal quintet and had her first professional appearances as a singer in Bobby Friedlander's band. She then studied philosophy and languages at Villanova University in Havana. In 1964 she moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts , where she was active in the American civil rights , anti-war and women's movements. After running several boutiques, she became the manager of a bar in the Stockbridge Music Inn in the early 1970s , where she performed by various pop and jazz musicians. He recorded several albums with his own compositions under his own name; her work Stockbridge Requiem for two sopranos, choir, organ and Latin jazz quartet has been performed in Stockbridge and New York's Saint Peter's Church.
In 1984 Carbo founded the Latin jazz formation Havana Midnight , with which she interpreted her arrangements according to Latin American standards. After a first self-produced EP ( Another Summer ), Soul Note released their first album under their own name, Street Cries , in 1987 , on which Gene Bertoncini , Michael Moore , Marvin Stamm and John Sauer participated. After completing her degree in musical theater composition at New York University in 1993 and a Yip Harburg scholarship, she released the albums So I'll Dream You Again (1997), Luna de Varadero (2005) and Through a Window, Like a Dream (MODL, 2007). For her album Luna de Varadero she was awarded the International Artists' Poll for best jazz singer in Brazil in 2004 and 2007 .
She also worked u. a. with Jimmy Giuffre , Dario Eskenazi , Nilson Matta , Vince Cherico , John Benitez , Café, Chocolate Armenteros , Oriente Lopez , Helio Alves , Sean Smith, Diego Urcola , Edsel Gomez , Aaron Goldberg , John Di Martino , El Negro Hernandez , Leo Traversa , Edson Machado and the Chico O'Farrill Band. From the 1990s she performed in New York clubs such as Birdland , Lenox Lounge , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and various jazz festivals. In 2013 she returned to Stockbridge,
Web links
- Portrait at All About Jazz
- Havana Carbo at Allmusic (English)
- Havana Carbo at Discogs (English)
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c Obituary at Local802
- ↑ a b Obituary in Legacy.com , originally The Berkshire Eagle Oct. 29, 2015
- ↑ Bio on havanacarbo.com .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carbo, Havana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carbo, Gladys Havana; Carbo, Gladys; Carbo Ramiro Garcia y de la Torre, Gladys Margarita Lourdes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban-American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 2015 |
| Place of death | Stockbridge , Massachusetts, USA |