Flute soloist and Professor of Music Danny Lozano recently offered an Afro-Cuban Jazz Concert with the group Cuba LA at the Scherr Forum in Thousand Oaks.
Some of the songs played by Lozano and Cuba LA were familiar to the audience through their introduction into popular culture during the rise of Cuban music in the 1920s and 30s. Standing out among them is “El Manisero,” popularly known as “The Peanut Vendor,” a song that helped trigger the rumba craze in the U.S. during the 1940s.
In addition to being an educator and Whittier College's Richard and Billie Deihl Distinguished Chair in Music, Lozano is a musical director and record producer who performs both innovative and accessible music by Latin American, African American, Latin Jazz, and Cuban composers as well as rarely heard pieces of the classical and contemporary repertoire.
As founding member of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Lozano has recorded on all Hollywood Bowl releases and is a featured soloist in many Grammy-nominated Latin Jazz and Cuban charanga recordings.
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