NASHVILLLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA PRESENTS "MAMBO CALIENTE" Anyone who attended Nashville Jazz Orchestra's "Cuban Fire" concert last fall—featuring Cuban drum phenom Horacio "El Negro" Hernández—knows this evening of big-band salsa, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, will be hotter than a ripe habanero. This year's edition, "Mambo Caliente," will feature another Hernández—Oscar, the founder, director and pianist for the Grammy-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra. Hernández has produced, recorded or performed with Tito Puente, Willie Colon, Julio Iglesias, Rubén Blades, Earl Klugh and Dave Valentin. Also on the bill is a slew of most excellent percussionists—Marc Quinones (Allman Brothers Band), Bobby Allende and locals Lalo Davila and Glen Caruba—along with vocalist Dalia Garcia. (With his stellar wit, spirited singing and disarming charm, Davila practically stole the show last year.)
Thu., Oct. 9, 8 p.m., 2008
