From Cuba, Dafnis Prieto’s revolutionary drumming techniques and compositions have had a powerful impact on the music landscape, nationally and internationally. His various awards and honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, a GRAMMY Award for Back to the Sunset (2018), two additional GRAMMY nominations, and two Latin GRAMMY nominations (including Best New Artist in 2007).
Prieto's compositions are featured on his ten distinctive recordings as a leader: About the Monks, Absolute Quintet, Taking the Soul for a Walk, Si o Si Quartet: Live at Jazz Standard NYC, Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio, Triangles and Circles, Back to the Sunset, Transparency, Cantar, and 3 Sides of the Coin.
Also a gifted educator, Prieto is on the faculty of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he directs the esteemed Frost Latin Jazz Orchestra. Prieto is the author of two groundbreaking books, including A World of Rhythmic Possibilities (2016) and Rhythmic Synchronicity (2020).
¡Insisto!: Dafnis "EL DISTINTO" Prieto. Compone tan sabrosa y bestialmente como cuando toca. (4:13) Si esos acentos "para salir del solo" no brotan del "sabor" que don Dafnis tiene en el alma, ruego a algún chef por ahí que condimente mi insípido diccionario. Saludoa desde Chile🇨🇱 MAESTROO.
Thank you for this video. What a fantastic mind you have Dafnis! Your Quartet plays so tight! What incredible musicians ! I look forward to your gig in London .
This is a great, great song with a great melody and Luciana's voice is great! I bought the album previously but just posted this again on Facebook to prove to my younger friends that I like modern music, too!
It’s actually 3 different beats combined an all different sides of each played an fit in to one but more of a avant- gard fill open to play what you want and fill as well great I started playing it a couple years ago it’s such a great sound and feel from the master dafnis great man love your playing man
¡Como compone MAESTROOOOO!. Es que realmente ¡"se pasó"!, ¡"se pasa"! y seguirá pasando de "sabor" y "buen gusto": "sabor y buen gusto" que, desde mi absoluta ignorancia teórica, se me "aparecen" (creo) gracias a su máximo conocimiento y arduo trabajo en cada instrumento de la Batería y de su milimétrico dominio de cada sónica zona de cada uno de ellos. Por algo don Dafnis Prieto es para mí "EL DISTINTO". 🙏🎶🥁🎵🙏. Saludos desde Chile🇨🇱.
Se llama: "Fenomenalmente sedosa mano derecha voladora". Sigo hace tiempo a don Dafnis ("El Distinto""), y, siendo mi batero insuperablemente favorito, no recuerdo haberle visto TAN destacado despliegue de su mano derecha. Obviamente, no es que no la haya tenido anteriormente, sino que nunca deja de sorprenderme "lo fácil" que hace parecer todo lo ultra difícil, porque para mí, ésto es más difícil que dos pulpos jugando al "Piedra, papel o tijera". Saludos desde Chile🇨🇱 MAESTRAZO🙏🥁