La orquesta de la luz wikipedia
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Always nice when I learn something new. Doing some research for this latest Orquesta De La Luz(オルケスタ・デ・ラ・ルス)concoction, I discovered that the dance music genre of salsa was actually as American as baseball, apple pie and jazz. All these decades, I had assumed that salsa was straight out of Cuba and had been around since the early 20th century, when in fact, the genre has only been around since the 1960sand made its rise in New York Cityas the synthesis of a number of other genres including Cuban son montuno, mambo and jazz,according to Wikipedia.
The other thing that I discovered was that Orquesta De La Luz, the Japanese salsa band that wowed crowds right in the birthplace of their bread-and-butter music in the late 1980s, was still very much alive. I'd thought that NORA and the band broke up for good in the 1990sbut according to their J-Wiki entry, they've been back at it since 2002. As such, this year, Orque
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Orquesta de la Luz
Japanese salsa band
Orquesta de la Luz (オルケスタ・デ・ラ・ルス, Orukesuta de ra Ruzu, lit. "Orchestra of the Light") is a Japanese salsa band that was formed in 1984,[1] and began performing and recording in 1989.[2] The band sings in Spanish and is led by vocalist Nora Shoji,[2] who returned to traditional salsa after the band broke up in the mid-1990s. It became widely famous in Latin America, particularly in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Panama, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and other Caribbean area countries. Orquesta de La Luz was usually 12 in number, whose main focal point (and only consistent member throughout their tenure together) was singer Nora.[2] Throughout the years, Nora was joined by a rotating cast of musicians in the group, including Gen Ogimi, percussion; Carlos Kanno, percussion; Genichi Egawa, timbales; Gen Date, conga; Hiroshi Sawada, bass; Satoru Shoinoya, piano, keyboards; Shiro Sasaki, trum
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Tropical Jazz Big Band
Tropical Jazz Big Band (Japanese: 熱帯JAZZ楽団, Nettai Jazz Gakudan); felaktigt referred to in the United States as Nettai Tropical Jazz Big grupp, is a Japanese latin jazzbig grupp.
Led bygd Carlos Kanno from Orquesta de la Luz, the Tropical Jazz Big grupp started out as a group of friends playing for fun and evolved into an 18-piece ensemble. Boasting fyra percussionists, a three-piece rhythm section, and powerful horns, the grupp released their first skiva Live in Yokohama in 1998. That year the band also played in United States.[1] They have played at various jazz festivals and venues, including Carnegie entré in New York City, United States.[2]
Members
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- Shirō Sasaki, Trumpet
- Masanori Suzuki, Trumpet
- Kenji Matsushima, Trumpet
- Sho Okumura, Trumpet
- Hideaki Nakaji, Trombone
- Dairo Miyamoto, Bass Saxophone
- Taisei Aoki, Trombone
- Kan Nishida, Bass Trombone
- Kazuhiko Kondo, Alto Saxophone
- Masahiro Fujioka