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big beet – Perfect Joy, Imperfect Reality

1. Salute Cubano – Gigi Gryce, Ray Bryant, Ben Zweig
2. Anunciação – Alceu Valença
3. Origins – Ben Zweig
4. Baka Yelli – Baka Traditional, Ben Zweig
5. DSTC i – Caribbean Traditional
6. Just Us – Ben Zweig
7. Rouge – Barry Harris
8. Vestido Longo – Arismar do Espírito Santo
9. La Mouche – Ben Zweig
10. Amse – Ben Zweig
11. Makossoca – Ben Zweig
12. DSTC ii – Caribbean Traditional

Piano, Accordion, Keyboards – Ben Rosenblum
Electric Bass – Marouen Allam
Conga, Bongo, assorted perc – Gustavo Di Dalva
Cajon, Bells, Sharkers – Juan Carlos Polo
Drum Set, Steel Pan – Ben Zweig

Produced by Ben Zweig
Mixed and Mastered by Andrew Sheron at Conveyor Studios

Listen to the unreleased album here ^

“Good, clean, fun…a mix of soca and calypso”

– Wall Street Journal

“epic and groovy… elements of Caribbean,

Latin, and African music…a

spaceship full of dancing drums” – Illustrate Magazine

big beet is a percussive quintet performing jazz, caribbean, brazilian, and afro-latin repertoire with a danceable pocket. like the namesake vegetable, the cultural collage ensemble, from New York City via Brazil, Peru, and Tunisia, speaks to the big bleeding heart in all of us: familiar and thumping, thoughtful and complex. anchored by drums and New York City’s breadth of global influences, their electrified sound welcomes collective improvisation within rich rhythmic motifs

the New York City working band was founded by drummer Ben Zweig (Johnny O’Neal, Randy Weston, diasporic music scholar) and features on percussion Gustavo di Dalva (Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Sergio Mendes), and Juan Carlos Polo (Arturo O’Farrill), on keyboards and accordian, Ben Rosenblum (Rickie Lee Jones), and acclaimed Tunisian bassist, Marouen Allam.

“As we work to express our humanity in a globalized world, it’s imperative to make meaningful connections across disparate genres, connecting them again through veins of the greater diaspora. big beet is a canvas with which we can collide the interconnected rhythms of isolated tribes, reinterpreting their uniqueness, finding commonality and unity in a migratory environment.”