NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist 

Organization 
Organized by Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with Art Institute of Chicago.

Now on View

March 9 – July 6, 2025 
East Building, Concourse

East Building
4th St and Constitution Ave NW
Enter or exit from 4th Street.

Washington D.C. 

Celebrate Elizabeth Catlett with the Freedom Jazz Quartet

Sam Newsome, saxophonist,   

James Weidman, Pianist

Hilliard Greene, Bassist 

Francisco Mora-Catlett, drummer

Celebrating Elizabeth Catlett

82nd Concert Series

• Sunday, April 6, 2025 
• 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
•  West Building, West Garden Court

https://www.nga.gov/calendar/concerts/82nd-concert-series/celebrate-with-the-freedom-jazz-quartet.html/2025/04/06/1300

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Roy Brooks Tribute

Thursday, Feb 13, 2025 
7 p.m.

Location:

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS

Detroit Film Theatre

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

This tribute performance honors Detroit jazz legend and drummer Roy Brooks (1938–2004), a key figure in the vibrant Detroit jazz scene. Throughout his career, Brooks performed and recorded with jazz luminaries such as Horace Silver, Yusef Lateef, Max Roach, M’Boom, Charles Mingus, and Woody Shaw. He was known for his innovative use of unusual instruments in his performances, including a musical saw and the "breath-a-tone," a drum with vacuum tubes attached to regulate pitch.

In 1972, he formed the Artistic Truth, which featured artists like Sonny Fortune, Eddie Jefferson, and Hamite Blunt. He also created the Aboriginal Percussion Choir, an ensemble focused on combining non-Western percussion instruments with more conventional ones. This performance will feature the music of Roy Brooks, played by musicians who worked with him, as well as a blend of younger-generation musicians who were influenced by his groundbreaking work.

M’Jumbe concert … DIA

Directed by Kresge Eminent Artist, Bassist Marion Hayden.

Featuring: Saxophonists Cassius Richmond, Vincent Bowens, Jeffrey Trent, and Alex Harding.

Trumpeters John Douglas and Allen Dennard.

Vocalist Robert McCarther.

Pianist lan Finkelstein.

Drummers Francisco Mora, Jerry LeDuff, Mahindi Masai, and Tariq Gardner.

Tap Dancer Rick Williams and Writer Bill Harris.

MUSIC NEWS

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/francisco-mora-catlett-carl-craig-planet-e-detroit-sun-ra-miles-davis-herbie-hancock-1235002169/

Francisco Mora Catlett

Having worked with experimental jazz legends including Sun Ra and Miles Davis since the '60s, Mora-Catlett recently released his own jazz electronic album via Carl Craig's Planet E label.

Find it on Bandcamp:

https://planetecommunications.bandcamp.com/album/electric-worlds


Listen to it on You tube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnoS5WuoZDmGnxgcwuZjuDg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUL2XyGVG7I&list=OLAK5uy_lL9naeNxJgvmW1UpJTDkyfvI0fsXYS1gU

Francisco Mora Catlett ELECTRIC WORLDS release

By Tomas Peña - Nov 20, 2021

https://jazzdelapena.com/new-york-report/francisco-mora-catlett-releases-electric-worlds/


The multi-talented Afro-Latin American drummer, composer, bandleader, visionary Francisco Mora Catlett is no stranger to the art of reinvention. He’s ridden the spaceways with Sun Ra’s Arkestra (1973 to 1980), performed with Max Roach’s all-percussion ensemble, M’Boom, collaborated and world travel with Detroit techno producer, Carl Craig, toured with the Freedom Jazz Trio, and commandeered the groundbreaking group, AfroHORN. Recently, amid the pandemic, Francisco took another step in his musical evolution. 



UNIVERSITY OF IOWA / Residence / Danys Perez Prades "La Mora" & Francisco Mora Catlett February 19 to 25, 2019 .. 

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PARIS November 30th 2018

Variations : Carl Craig & Francisco Mora jouent Sun Ra  



https://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/musique/evenements/variations/saison-3/carl-craig-francisco-mora-jouent-sun-ra-281001

Batteur, compositeur et enseignant à Detroit (coïncidence), le new-yorkais Francisco Mora est un habitué des formations Afro-jazz et a collaboré en 1996 avec le DJ Carl Craig sur le projet “The Innerzone Orchestra”. De retour à New York en 2002, le percussionniste co-fonde “Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Dance Company” avec la chorégraphe et danseuse Danys Perez Prades (sa femme) et se lance dans une ribambelle de projet jazz. 

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STEWART DUO PLUS "ONE" 

FRIDAY MAY 4TH / 

HARLEM JAZZ BOX 

GREATER CALVARY BABTIST CHURCH / 43-55 WEST 124 STREET, NYC

BOB STEWART, TUBA / CURTIS STEWART, VIOLIN

SPECIAL GUEST: FRANCISCO MORA CATLETT, DRUMS AND PERCUSSION 

* 1st Set: 7 pm - 7:45 pm (15 min break)

* 2nd Set 8:00 pm-8:45 pm 

HOUSE OPENS @ 6:30 pm 

Price $20  

Let's celebrate the end of year artistically and spiritually this December with our brothers and sisters from Santiago de CUBA in New York!!!!

http://ymlp.com/zF6Dlh

https://www.facebook.com/events/1171445712947928/

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Harlem One Stop ...

Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble presents world premiere of "Siete Mares" ("Seven Seas")
Saturday, December 17 through Sunday, December 18
Aaron Davis Hall | City College Center for the Arts, New York

This December 17 and 18, Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble will present the world premiere of “Siete Mares” (“Seven Seas”) at Aaron Davis Hall. With the generous support of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and City College Center for the Arts (CCCA)/Aaron Davis Hall, the group is bringing from Cuba, ten of the foremost Afro-Cuban artists, currently working as principal dancers and musicians of The Ballet Folklorico Cutumba, The Folklorico National de Oriente, The Ballet Santiago and The National Theater Company “Cabildo Teatral Santiago” to perform as part of the program.

 

A dance-drama performance reflecting the cultural perspective and dance identity based on the history and the mythology of Afro-Cuban culture, “Siete Mares” is the third of the Patakin (mythological story) series, written, choreographed and directed by Danys Pérez “La Mora”—an international Afro-Cuban folklore master specialist from Santiago de Cuba. It is a new work of Orisha culture illustrating Yemayá, a powerful goddess and one of the queens of Orisha dieties who represents ocean and maternity.

 

Currently Oyu Oro is based both in New York, where Pérez lives, and in Santiago de Cuba, where she is from. Many of the members in Santiago de Cuba Oyu Oro are principal dancers and musicians from the aforementioned dance companies who Pérez originally trained in Adiro Omode, the children’s dance company she founded in the 1990s.

 

Oyu Oro has spent nearly a decade in the US cultivating a diverse community of students, professional artists and supporters of the arts who participate in classes and attend performances in the America and in Cuba. The company hopes to continue spreading Afro-Cuban culture through the aesthetic of performing arts, experiences conveyed in the classes, lectures and performances that Peréz and other guest master artists facilitate to maintain humanistic and spiritual values, characteristic of Afro-Cuban culture.

During November and the first few weeks of December while Oyu Oro prepares for the premiere, the company will be performing and teaching workshops organized by Harlem School of the Arts,  Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration, CUMBE: Center for African Diaspora and Dance to offer as many cultural exchange programs as possible to residents of New York City of all ages and backgrounds.

The Saturday, December 17, event is at 7 p.m. and the Sunday, December 18, event is at 3 p.m. Tickets for the event are $30 general admission, $25 for students/children and $20 for seniors and can be purchased online at http://www.citycollegecenterforthearts.org or through the box office by telephone at (212) 650-6900 or in person (Tuesday through Friday from 12 noon to 6 p.m.). City College Center for the Arts’ Aaron Davis Hall is located on the campus of the City College of New York, at West 135th Street and Convent Avenue (129 Convent Avenue).

https://www.harlemonestop.com/event/24495/oyu-oro-afro-cuban-experimental-dance-ensemble-presents-world-premiere-of-siete-mares-seven-seas-

Jazz is African
Jazz from an African Perspective

Drummer/percussionist Francisco Mora Catlett explores jazz as an African art form that was the impetus behind the creation of his group, Afro Horn. Catlett also will perform and discuss musical excerpts from his upcoming CD.

Series Host: Sam Newsome
This performance and conversation series curated and hosted by saxophonist Sam Newsome takes an in-depth look at African-inspired jazz and jazz musicians who create from an African sensibility. The series will feature scholars, writers and musicians presenting thought provoking talks and innovative musical performances. Join us as we celebrate the re-opening of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem with this landmark series.
Jazz is African
Conversation Series and Listening Party
Guest: Francisco Mora Catlett
$10.00 Suggested Donation

http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/events/jazz-is-african/



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OYU ORO Afro Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble

"EL IYAWO" / OYU ORO Afro Cuban Dance Company
On Sat, March 7th and Sun, March 8th, 2015                                                             The well received OYU ORO’s production is back in the theater!!!
LATEA THEATER
107 Suffolk Street, New York NY 1002
Between Delancy St & Rivington St
http://oyuoro-afrocuban.com/index.html

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* Francisco Mora Catlett is co-founder for “OYU ORO” Afro-Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble in New York City lead by Cuban dancer and choreographer “La Mora” Danys Perez. 



http://www.oyuoro-afrocuban.com/index.html 

HARLEM JAZZ BOXX

GREATER CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH

43-55 WEST 124TH STREET, NYC

 More info Click Here

 

Short Video Clip Click Here

 

BOB STEWART, TUBA

CURTIS STEWART, VIOLIN

SPECIAL GUEST:

 

FRANCISCO MORA CATLETT, DRUMS AND PERCUSSION

HARLEM JAZZ BOXX

GREATER CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH

43-55 WEST 124TH STREET, NYC

 More info Click Here

 

Short Video Clip Click Here

 

BOB STEWART, TUBA

CURTIS STEWART, VIOLIN

SPECIAL GUEST:

 

FRANCISCO MORA CATLETT, DRUMS AND PERCUSSION

1st set: 7pm - 7:45pm (15 min break) 2nd Set: 8:00pm - 8:45pm

House doors open at 6:30pm

Price: $20

1st set: 7pm - 7:45pm (15 min break) 2nd Set: 8:00pm - 8:45pm

House doors open at 6:30pm

Price: $20

Carl Craig x Francisco Mora ...
Variations : Carl Craig & Francisco Mora jouent Sun Ra 

Carl Craig x Francisco Mora ...

À propos de Francisco Mora

OYU ORO Afro Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble

 Oyu Oro is the brainchild of Danys "La Mora" Perez ─ international Afro-Cuban folklore performer, choreographer, teacher and dance ethnologist from Santiago de Cuba. The company is committed to the preservation of Afro-Cuban folklore as well as to encourage the cross-cultural understanding of the dance and music forms derived from African culture in Cuba. While Oyu Oro’s traditional repertoire pays tribute to African lineages derived from the Yoruba, Congo, Carabali, Arará and Dahomean cultures of West Africa and Haiti, the popular dance choreographies also celebrate the national popular Cuban heritage. 

Oyu Oro aspires to create a work that will serve as an informational tool for the researchers in the academic field as well as a source of enjoyment for audiences of all ages and multicultural backgrounds who seek a greater development of "art among people.”

Oyu Oro caters to a wide range of performance opportunities, such as theater, community events, festivals as well as educational programs and workshops at universities and local schools. We are able to customize our repertoire depending on the size and type of audience as well as the location. Our high-caliber authentic folkloric dance is artistic, educational, cultural and serves diverse communities, audiences and participants of all ages. For more information,

Please E-Mail:

oyu_oro@yahoo.com

http://www.oyuoro-afrocuban.com/Contact.htmlCopyright 2012 FRANCISCO MORA CATLETT AACE RECORDS. All rights reserved.