Bonjour
      Carnival is fast approaching us, so if you cannot take
a plane to Brazil or New Orleans and want to have some Mardi Gras fun,
hear Yves Francois et Rocambu jazz @ the HotLoft located above Fizz @
3220 North Lincoln in Chicago. Show time is 9.30pm and there will be 2
sets. The price is 8 dollars and it's going to be FUN!!!
  
    Get your beads, funky costume and sexy mask to join HotHouse for a
night of fun & mischief...Mardi Gras style !!!!! HotHouse presents
"Mardi Gras from around the world" with Yves Francois et Rocambu Jazz.
Yves Francois and his band will play some of the most unique jazz
inspired by Mardi Gras and Carnaval celebrations across the globe.





Yves Francois et Rocambu Jazz




New Orleans trumpets growl while clarinets swoon under the palm trees
of the Caribbean. Guitars make a web of koras and thumb piano like
sound while drummers bring Congo Square, New Orleans back home to
Africa.


Yves Francois et Rocambu Jazz formed in 2001 by jazz trumpeter,
Yves Francois  and other like-minded musicians. The mission of
Rocambu Jazz is to explore rhythms of African & Afro Diaspora
musics. They find the common bonds between music from West Africa
(highlife and the Guinean and Malinky music of Senegal and Mali), Congo
(old school rumba, soukous), Martinique (biguine), Haiti (compas), Cuba
(son, conga ), Trinidad (calypso), Brazil (choro, samba,
bossa nova) and New Orleans (early jazz/dixie land). Rocambu Jazz
exploits common bonds of these musics in unique interpretations of the
various forms.


The name Rocambu has a history from an old Ki-Kongo expression
"rocamambu", meaning one who looks for problems and ways to deal with
them. Like the prodigal son who is kicked out, and comes back later
rich. One who is a sort of misfit, and causes spirited conflict, a
necessary element in all Creole musics. An excellent band had a similar
name in Congo in the 1950's by Jean Serge Essous and Rossingol, the
famous "Orchestre Rock a Mambo". A true populist music, early jazz was
derived from dance music (i.e. biguines, rhumbas, congas). Be it from
New Orleans, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Cuba or the Congo, Rocambu Jazz
brings it all together in a fresh and festive Retro-Afro-Caribbean
sound.


While Yves Francois et Rocambu Jazz plays certain sounds that are
over 100 years old, the music remains fresh and beckons you to dance!


ALSO:
THIS SUNDAY THE 15TH FEB
Yves francois et Rocambu Jazz
will also be @ AFRICAN HARAMBEE, back after a couple weeks to play
Sunday Nights for your pleasure, rumbas, biguines and jazz. Come on by
and enjoy the great food and ambiance at 7537 N Clark Street 7pm