Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts to Host 'RHYTHM REVUE' with Joe Bataan & DJ Felix Hernandez, 4/9

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College is pleased to partner with renowned DJ/producer Felix Hernandez, who will host Rhythm Revue: A Latin Soul Celebration, an evening of live music and DJing celebrating the musical genres of Latin Soul and Boogaloo, on Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 8pm. Presented in concert format and not as one of Hernandez's traditional dance parties, the show will feature the "King of Latin Soul," Joe Bataan.Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at BrooklynCenter.org or by calling the Brooklyn Center box office at 718-951-4500.

In the 1950s and '60s, African Americans in the United States listened to various styles of music, including jump blues, R&B and doo-wop. Puerto Ricans in New York City shared these tastes, but they also listened to genres like mambo or cha-cha-chá and bossa nova. There was a mixing of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, African Americans and others in clubs, whose bands tried to find common musical ground. Boogaloo was a result of this search, a marriage of many styles including Cuban son montuno, guaguancó, guajira, guaracha, mambo, and American R&B and soul. With lyrics sung in both English and Spanish, this highly danceable and distinctly urban form of music reflected the amazing multicultural fabric of New York City.

Rhythm Revue: A Latin Soul Celebration is part of Brooklyn Center's Jazz Series, which also includes The Robert Glasper Trio (March 19 at 8pm), jazz violin virtuoso Regina Carter (April 16 at 8pm), and a tribute to Nat King Cole featuring Ramsey Lewis and John Pizzarelli (May 1 at 3pm).