Residencies, Workshops, Master Classes,
Lecture/demos, Interactive assemblies, Educational events

CONTACT: Bobby Matos bobbymatos@hotmail.com or tel: 213 273 8332

Bobby Mates is an accomplished mentor who has taught the secrets and fundamentals of Latin jazz and Afro-Latin rhythms to students of all ages and abilities. Residencies can be arranged in conjunction with performances or by themselves, with one or more members of the band. Other residencies can be designed around your community's needs or school curriculum.

Master Classes include

Latin Jazz basics for student Jazz bands

Understanding & playing Afro Latin rhythms - the correct approach to the polyrhythmic experience, applying key Latin rhythm building blocks; "Clave and Tumbao" - their relationship to each other and to section phrasing.

Beginning Latin Percussion

Technique and concept. Classic Neo African rhythm patterns as preserved in the Caribbean, hand drums, bells, sticks, shakers ( conga, bongo, bata, timbales, guiro, shekere, & bell)

Intermediate Afro Latin Percussion

Drum batteries explore authentic Neo African rhythms like Rumba Guaguaanco, Yambu, Rumba Columbia, Yeza, Bomba, Plena, Guiro, Bembe

Mambo, Dancing to the Drum

Dance students, teachers and the dancer that lives in all of us will learn: how great Mambo dancers can dance to the music without counting; how Afro Cuban sacred and profane dances have influenced modern Latin dancing.

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Contact Bobby at 213 273 8332  //  917 913 2631  //  bobbymatos@hotmail.com