Caribé Electronic Press Kit
About Caribé
Fantastic and fearless music and dance group Caribe, features band leader Gai Bryant and a number of magnificent musicians from Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Cuba and Australia. These ARIA-nominees have played festivals and clubs all over Australia and are renowned for setting the dance floor alight. Get ready for a night of spectacular, trail blazing original music and dance.
Caribe have performed and conducted workshops for BOOM! International Festival of Percussion, Bellingen Muse, Sydney Sacred Music Festival, Sydney Afro-Latin Festival, Inland Sea of Sound and Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, La Bomba Adelaide, Paris Cat Melbourne. They have worked with Afro-Dominican dynamos Josean Jacobo and Otoniel Nicolás and Grammy-nominated Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca. In 2026 they will tour with Tony Succar.
Artists Include
Saxophonist/composer Gai Bryant (Elio Villafranca, Jim McNeely)
Sensational trombonist James Greening (Lou Reed, Maria Schneider, the catholics)
Fabulous trumpeter Lee McIver (Polymorphic Orkestra, Taikoz)
Percussionist Julio Candela (El Orqueston, Felix Valdelomar)
Pianist Ed Goyer (Rai Thistlewaite, CODA)
Bassist Cesar Marin (Sonido, Son Veneno)
Drummer Juan Mulet (ALLY, Banda Serenata)
Sensational Cuban dancer Cruz Vazquez Borges (Havana Nights, Lady Salsa).
Caribe gave an exhilarating world class performance of Latin American style jazz and percussion at 2022 BOOM! FESTIVAL OF PERCUSSION. The Everest Theatre was bursting with rhythm, verve and passion and some highly talented musicians.
Mark Spigot
Sydney Arts Review, 8 Oct 2022
Caribe’s Distant Waters makes for joyous listening and dancing, with immersions of cha cha chá, steaming Caribbean rumba rhythms, and chants sung by Adrian Medina. It exemplifies the warmth, sway, and rhythms of Cuban and Latino jazz.
Barry O'Sullivan
Fine Music Magazine, February 2023
My enthusiasm for Gai Bryant’s Afro-Cuban jazz projects has been well documented. The playing of the musicians in Caribe is exceedingly impressive on this fine album, suggesting that Bryant is able to tap into an unprecedented surfeit of well-educated and experienced musicians in Sydney, who not only excel as section players, but also produce the sort of convincing improvisations essential to a first-class jazz performance.
Eric Myers
AJAZZ 98, August 2023
