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Born in Cuba, he received his earliest musical training from his father, Eladio "Don Pancho" Terry, violinist and Cuba's leading player of the ChekerZ. His father was also known as the founder and director of the "Orquesta Maravillas de Florida," one of Cuba's most important charanga bands. Mr. Terry went on to receive his classical music training and graduated from both the prestigious National School of Art (ENA) and Amadeo Roldan Conservatory.

While in Cuba, Yosvany was known for his musical innovation performing with the likes of legends, such as Chucho Valdez, Silvio Rogriguez, Fito Paez, and Cubanismo, as well as forming the influential group, Columna B. Their work represented the new voice of young Cuban jazz players. "Columna B became this limitless work-shop, where everything could be tried and experimented with. We learned how to polish and develop our craft in a very special and intuitive sense", comments Terry. Columna toured throughout the US and Europe, and in 1998 premiered their Inroads Commissioned-piece by Arts International (through the Ford Foundation) at Stanford Jazz Festival.

Yosvany came to New York in 1999 and was immediately recognized as a "spectacular talent" in the Jazz scene, playing with Roy Hargrove, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Dave Douglass, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and bassist Avishai Cohen. "My move to New York represented an incredible time of growth as a musician, the move gave me access to so much information, and the opportunity to meet and work with talented musicians from all over the world." Always a student, Mr. Terry has absorbed and incorporated American jazz traditions with his own Afro-Cuban roots to produce compositions and solo work that flow from the rhythmic and hard driving avant-garde to sweet sounding lyricism. His voice and style are unique and complex, and with his new Quintet he has married Cuban and American musical traditions to create a new and exciting sound.

Mr. Terry's latest production, Metamorphosis, represents the investigative work he's being doing since arriving in New York. Yosvany adds, "The sound that I was trying to acheive in this recording is made up of all the musical influences that I've experienced since the beginning of my studies in Cuba, combined with my musical growth in New York during the past five years."

The compositions on this record reflect portraits and experiences of life in Havana and New York, while at the same time recreate the stamp of many other cities Yosvany has passed through, touring as a musician. "Inevitably one learns from what one comes into contact with--a concert, book, film, landscape, painting, hanging out late at night, etc.It's for this reason that the title couldn't be more descriptive of all these sensations: Metamorphosis", concludes Mr. Terry.

YOSVANY TERRY CABRERA

PERFORMANCE CREDITS

• 2003-04 Performance and Tour with: Avishai Cohen Quartet, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Eric Rives, Yosvany Terry Quintet, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez and Robby Ameen band. Jason Lidner "Big Band" in Europe, Japan, U.S.A and South America.
• 2001- 02 Performance and Tour: Avishai Cohen and the International Vamp Band in Costa Rica, Brasil. U.S.A and Europe.
• 2001 Performance with: Dave Douglas at Vancouver Jazz Fest. Yosvany Terry Quartet at Bocconi Jazz Fest , Milan, Italy.
• 2000- 01 Performance with Eddy Palmieri at Hunter College, NY,Detroit, Denver,Boston and Vermont.
• 1999 Performance with Steve Turre and Carlos Del Puerto at Stanford Jazz Festival, CA.
• 1999 Participated in Music Bridge artistic exchange project; performed with Indigo Girls.
• 1998 Columna B premiere performance of Inroads commissioned-piece at Stanford Jazz Festival.
• 1997 Performance and Tour with: Steve Coleman and Mystic Rhythm Society, Conrad Herwig, Marilyn Lerner and Jesus Alema-y in Europe, Canada and U.S.A
• 1996 Montreal Jazz Festival with Jane Bunnett and Hilario Duran
• 1995 Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival with Walfredo de los Reyes Sr., Orestes Vilato and Rebecca Mauleon. Concord Jazz Festival with John Santos and the Machete Ensemble, and Israel Lopez, "Cachao"
• 1994 European Tour with Carlos Maza.
• 1993 Concert tour with Silvio Rodriguez and Di-kara in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia
• 1993 Performance with Fito Paez at the UNICEF benefit at Velez-Sarfield Stadium, Buenos Aire

RECORDINGS CREDITS

• Yosvany Terry Septet, "Methamorphosis", EWE Records 2005.
• Eric Rives, "Tells of the Stuttering Mime", 2004 11:11 Records
• El Negro and Robby, "Third & Four, World War" EWE Records 2003- 04. Live in Perugia, 2004.
• Avishai Cohen, "At Home", "Lyla" and 2003- 04 Sunny Side Records. The International Vamp Band, " Unity ". Concord Record 2001.
• Yosvany Terry Quintet , Twisted Noon, 2001 Bombo Music Production.
• Jesus Alema-y,"Cubanismo", "Malembe", "Cajun Song" Hannibal, London. 96, 2000-02.
• Columna B, En Clave, 98 Mas Y Mas Records, Barcelona, Spain.
• Steve Coleman, "Genesis", 97. Mystic Rhythm Society, "The Sign and the Seal", 96 BMG France.
• Los Terry, From Africa to Camaguey, 96 Round World Music, San Francisco.
• Gema y Pavel, "Cosa de Broma", 96 Nube Negra, Spain.
• Jane Bunnett, "Chamalongo", 97 Blue Note
• Uptown Irawo, 97 Tonga Records, US Marilyn Lerner, "Birds are Returning", 97 Jazz Focus Jazz Focus, Canada

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

(All teaching experience includes leading saxophone masterclasses, coaching student combos, conducting special lecture/demonstrations on Afro-Cuban music and history, and performing with faculty)

• Stanford JazzWorkshop, Stanford University, CA Resident Instructor and Clinician, 1995-2001
• Goddard College , Montpelier,Vermont. Workshops on Afro-Cuban Tradition and Latin Jazz, 2001
• Gallery 37, Chicago, IL Faculty Musician 1999
• Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) Instructor, Havana, Cuba, 1999
• Royal Conservatory of Music, Winnipeg,Canada Workshops on Jazz and Afro-Cuban Music, 1997
• Nu Upper Room, Oakland, CA. 30-day teaching residency program with Steve Coleman through a grant award from the Lila Wallace- Reader's Digest Fund, September 1996.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Recipient of a commissioning grant in 1997 & 1998 from the Inroads program at Arts International (through the Ford Foundation) that enabled a collaboration between Columna B and U.S.-based composerWayneWallace and two Havana-based dancers. The work premiered at the Stanford Jazz.

Workshop & Festival in CA. Directed the Youth Jazz Orchestra of the National School of the Arts at the Havana Jazz Festival, 1992.

First place winner, National Saxophone Competition, Habana, Cuba 1990.

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