Enclave

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Enclave

The brainchild of saxophonist/percussionist Hilary Noble and pianist Rebecca Cline, Enclave updates the Latin/jazz fusion for the 21st century. Often described as fiery, refreshing, and forward-looking, the group’s music reflects diverse influences from both Afro-Latin traditions and the jazz canon. The quartet plays with a broad palette of free, fusion, and post-bop jazz colors, as well as a wide range of Latin rhythms from Brazil, Argentina, and Cuba. This is music for the heart as well as the head: “It’s fun and intellectually challenging, flawlessly performed yet marked by a spontaneous elan.” (allaboutjazz.com)

Enclave puts on a riveting live show. Powerhouse Hilary Noble leads the charge on tenor, soprano, and flute, and then cooks in the rhythm section on the congas. On piano, Cline mixes percussive energy with “harmonic and melodic lyricism...[and] a seemingly unstoppable flow of ideas.” (ejazznews)

The group’s first CD, Enclave, was released in October 2005 to widespread critical acclaim on ZOHO Music. Audiences from Boston, New York, and San Juan, Puerto Rico have thrilled to performances of material from the recording. Enclave has received airplay on WGBH (Boston), WEMU (Detroit), KUVO (Denver), and WSDS (San Diego), among numerous other stations nationally and internationally.

The creative partnership of Noble and Cline shows itself in the finishing of each other’s musical sentences as they jointly conceive, compose, and arrange the music. Their musical grammar derives from a variety of sources: Hilary has studied saxophone with Yusef Lateef in the U.S., and percussion with Maximino Duquesne in Cuba. Rebecca has studied piano with Joanne Brackeen in the U. S., and with Chucho Valdés in Cuba. Hilary and Rebecca have performed with some of the torchbearers of the music, including Giovanni Hidalgo, Bobby Sanabria and John Santos.

Bassist Fernando Huergo and drummer Steve Langone anchor the sound of the group, which has been evolving with unchanging personnel for three years. Fernando and Steve have played jointly with the Jinga Trio, Jinga Quintet, Nando Michelin, and have also performed separately with the likes of Luciana Souza, Danilo Perez, Jerry Bergonzi, Dave Samuels, Dave Kikoski, Paulo Braga, and many others.

Hilary Noble

Hilary Noble’s unconventional melding of progressive jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythm flows naturally from the reconciliation of his two instrumental voices: tenor saxophone and congas. His first CD as a leader, Noble Savage, was released in September 2002 on Whaling City Sound. It was co-produced by Bobby Sanabria and features Sanabria and guest saxophonist Charles Neville.

He has performed all over the U.S., as well as in the Netherlands, Austria, France, and Switzerland. Artists he has played and recorded with include Bobby Sanabria’s Ascención, Charles Neville, Bo Diddley, Eric Krasno, Entrain, Max Creek, Bob Moses, Robin Kenyatta, Clifford Thornton, and Alvin Queen.

Rebecca Cline

Rebecca Cline has performed or recorded with such artists as Giovanni Hidalgo, Paulo Braga, Romero Lubambo, Chris Potter, Jerry Gonzalez, Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, John Lockwood, Jon Hazilla, Charles Neville, and Alex Acuña. In May 2005 she performed at the Kennedy Center as a finalist in the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Piano Competition.

Her piano playing and/or compositions can be heard on Enclave (Zoho Music), It Never Entered My Mind (Jon Hazilla) and Live at the Nuyorican Café, vol. I: Gracias Polo (TahoeRican). She also performs jazz weekly at the Oak Bar in Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. In 2003, she joined the faculty at Berklee College of Music, where she teaches Ensembles, Piano, Jazz Studies, and a new course on Afro-Cuban Piano Montunos.

Fernando Huergo

Fernando Huergo was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1968. He has recorded over 70 albums, including seven as leader. Fernando has toured in North, Central and South America, as well as Europe and Asia. He has performed with the bands of Danilo Perez, Guillermo Klein, Luciana Souza, Dave Liebman, The Jinga Trio, and many others.

Fernando graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1992. He has also studied with Charlie Banacos, Jerry Bergonzi, Cecil McBee, John Lockwood, and George Rusell, among others. Currently an Assistant Professor, he has been teaching in the Bass Department at Berklee since 1996. He has also been teaching at Tufts University since 2001.

Steve Langone

Steve Langone is one of the most versatile and sought-after drummers in the Boston area. In addition to Enclave, he has recorded with Jinga trio and Jinga Quintet (Freshsounds New Talent), Mili Bermejo and Dan Greenspan (Pentagrama), Nando Michelin (Double Time Records), Gilson Schachnik (Candid), Steve Langone Group (Whaling City Sounds), and Claudio Ragazzi's sound track for "Next Stop Wonderland"(Verve). Steve has also recorded for various radio and TV productions, including Sesame Street. He has toured parts of the U.S., Switzerland, Mexico, and Venezuela, and he exclusively plays Bosphorous Cymbals.