Modern Drummer on The Pan American Nutcracker Suite
Joe McCarthy The New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band The Pan American Nutcracker Suite Bob Girouard What’s a Connecticut Yankee doing residing in Little Havana (Miami, Florida)? Most likely teaching, winning Grammy’s and leading an innovative ground-breaking ensemble called the New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band. The Pan American Nutcracker Suite is a...Continue reading...
The Nutcracker Gets A New Groove
The Afro Bop Alliance's latest album is The Pan American Nutcracker Suite, an ambitious reworking of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, which fuses the original ballet music with elements of jazz, classical, Afro-Latin and other dance music....
WBGO on The Pan American Nutcracker Suite
Inspired by the Latin jazz rhythms that both Joe McCarthy and Vince Norman had explored, the two decided to take their turn at adapting Tchaikovsky’s seminal work for a piece they dubbed The Pan American Nutcracker Suite....
LatinJazznet on The Nutcracker Suite
The Nutcracker Suite has become the mainstay of Christmastime entertainment and this makes it the ideal time for this wonderful version – The Pan American Nutcracker Suite – by Joe McCarthy’s New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band....