David Gonzalez and The Poetic License Band
City of Dreams
“At once cutting, reverential, and deeply insightful, Gonzalez’ words resonate with a broad audience, while the music keeps hips swaying. City of Dreams is one of the season’s best.” – Hispanic Magazine
Inspired and wonderfully evocative. Gonzalez is approximately a Nuyorican Gil Scott- Heron but with his own distinctive voice. – The Orange County Register
An amazing spoken-word/Latin jazz production. – Latin Beat Magazine
“Picture a Puerto Rican version of Bill Cosby or imagine what Garrison Keillor would be like if he’d been Latino.” – The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY
Bernstein Artists is thrilled to introduce a brand new project to our roster this season,
DAVID GONZALEZ AND THE POETIC LICENSE BAND: CITY OF DREAMS. In this project, Latin jazz meets spoken word in a kaleidoscopic multi-media production exploding with passion, intelligence and energy. Created and produced by poet/musician/performance artist David Gonzalez,
City of Dreams brings a quintet of New York’s hottest Latin Jazz musicians setting Gonzalez’s compelling poetry like a diamond in a mambo/funk music box. Mr. Gonzalez' poems and stories start with personal history and cultural identity, then expand to the search for transcendence, and his mission toward planetary consciousness and compassion.
...like a diamond in a mambo/funk music box.
The band heats it up with sacred Yoruba chants, mambo-flavored house grooves, funk, and metal-tinged rock.
City of Dreams was commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and developed at La MaMa, ETC, in New York City. Hispanic Magazine says, “At once cutting, reverential, and deeply insightful, Gonzalez’ words resonate with a broad audience, while the music keeps hips swaying.
City of Dreams is one of the season’s best.” Available for touring in 2008/09, please contact Bernstein Artists for more information.
City of Dreams was commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland and developed at La MaMa, ETC, in New York City, with additional support from Montgomery County Community College.
