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SUMMARY:FRANCISCO MORA CATLETT - AFRO HORN
DESCRIPTION:$20 (General Admission\, Seated) Doors open at 7PM Francisco 
 Mora-Catlett (drums)\, Sam Newsome (soprano sax)\, D.D. Jackson (piano)\
 , Hilliard Greene (bass)\, Román Díaz (percussion) Francisco Mora Catlet
 t is a drummer\, composer\, and educator who began his musical career in
  Mexico City where he worked as a session musician for Capitol Records f
 rom 1968-1970. He studied music at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxi
 co\, and with a Grant from the Mexican government from 1970 to 1973\, he
  studied drums with Alan Dawson and composition at the Berklee School of
  Music in Boston. He left Mexico City with Sun Ra in 1973 and worked wit
 h him until 1980. In 1987\, while in Detroit\, he released his first alb
 um as a leader\, the Pan-Afro project “Mora!” Among the several grants h
 e received\, one was from the NEA to study with Max Roach in New York Ci
 ty. Mora Catlett worked with Roach's percussion ensemble M'Boom\, appear
 ing on two Blue Moon LPs\, “To the Max” (1990) and “Live at S.O.B.'s” (1
 992)\, in addition to composing for Mr. Roach’s Uptown String Quartet. I
 n 1993\, he became a visiting professor at Michigan State University. Mo
 ra-Catlett played on Detroit’s Techno producer Carl Craig's 1996 jazz/el
 ectronica fusion project “The Innerzone Orchestra” and “Programmed” (199
 9). The same year\, using Innerzone cohorts Craig Taborn and Rodney Whit
 aker\, Mora Catlett issued a second album “World Trade Music.” Following
  Mora Catlett's departure from Detroit in 2000 the Outer Zone Band’s fir
 st recording featuring Marshal Allen\, Craig Taborn\, and Carl Craig was
  released. With his wife Danys Pérez Prades\, known as “La Mora\,” Mora
 -Catlett co-founded the “Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Experimental Dance Company”\
 , a dance-music project experimenting with music from the African Diaspo
 ra. Subsequent releases include: “Freedom Jazz Trio" and "New Under The 
 Sun\," featuring Francesco Tristano\, “Live At The Bronx Museum”with Cra
 ig Taborn\, “Andromeda M-31\," featuring Taborn and JD Allen\, the doubl
 e CD “AfroHORN MX” (2012)\, AfroHORN's "Rare Metal" (2013) and "At the E
 dge of the Spiral" (2015-2016). In 2018\, Mora-Catlett and Carl Craig pe
 rformed a tribute to Sun Ra on French television. His solo electronic mu
 sic project "Electric Worlds" was released on November 19\, 2021. His ne
 w electronic project is “Cosmic Link” (2025). Contact Us: contact@thedra
 keamherst.org #: 413-320-3020 Copyright © 2021 The Drake Developed by Ti
 gerweb 🐯 Follow Us\n\nTickets: https://www.thedrakeamherst.org/events/f
 rancisco-mora-catlett-afro-horn\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/c78
 9b9ca-2b4b-4ae2-b1b6-4c32bc292f46
LOCATION:The Drake - Amherst\, 44 N Pleasant St\, Amherst\, MA 01002
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/c789b9ca-2b4b-4ae2-b1b6-4c32bc292f4
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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