Edmar Castaneda: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Edmar Castaneda is the sort of musician who isn t afraid to challenge the established order. He s carving out a place for himself in Latin jazz on an instrument you don t often hear in his chosen genre: the Colombian harp. He s adapted intricate traditional fingerpicking techniques to play jazz melodies along with the AfroCuban tumbao (bass line). As you can see and hear for yourself in this Tiny Desk Concert, he can switch between rural Colombian dance music and jazz with a twist of his wrist. Literally.
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