Andrew Cleyndert

From Cambridge to Cuba

Fri 22 March 2024

West Road Concert Hall

The Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra – the University’s flagship big band – teams up with former National Youth Jazz Orchestra Artistic Director Mark Armstrong to perform a thrilling programme of Latin and Afro-Cuban Jazz featuring some of Mark’s original compositions and arrangements. The repertoire ranges from Salsa to Samba such as Dizzy Gillespie’s A Night In Tunisia to Mark’s own Coastbound. The punchy Caribe by Michel Camilo is also in the mix alongside Mark’s original suite, The Hunt, mixing Bembe, Latin and Swing.