Cubop City Big Band

THE CUBOP CITY BIG BAND

The Cubop City Big Band founded by drummer-percussionist Lucas van Merwijk was named after the New York club ‘Cubop City’ where such legends as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo used to perform in the nineteen fourtees and fifties.
It currently has 7 cd’s to its name that include music by Machito (the Machito Project) Beny Moré (Moré and More) and Arsenio Rodriguez (Arsenio)
Besides Dutch musicians, the twenty-piece big band includes players from Puerto Rico, Panama, Germany, the USA and Venezuela and has collaborated with a respectable number of stars from the Latin scene that include Alfredo ‘Chocolate’ Armenteros, Edy Martinez, Andy Gonzalez (Libre, Tito Puente), Armando Peraza (Carlos Santana), Luis Conte and Nelson Gozales (Cachao, Gloria Estefan), Paul Simon). The band had several hits at radio stations in Latin America and the U.S.A (Miami, San Fransisco, Los Angeles, New York). Their cd Moré and More was number 2 on the New York Latin Beat magazine’s Best Latin Album of 1998.


1995 Lucas van Merwijk starts CUBOP CITY BIG BAND
1995 CD recording ‘the Machito Project‘ CUBOP CITY BIG BAND
1996 Cubop City Big Band tour with Chocolate Armenteros
1996 North Sea Jazz festival Cubop City Big Band
1997 Cubop City Big Band recording ‘Moré and More’
1997 Concerts Cubop City Big Band with Edy Martinez
1998 Tour Dutch Antilles with the Cubop City Big Band
1998 nr 2 Best latin Album in Latin Beat Magazine
1999 Album ‘Live in the Hague’ Cubop City Big Band on Tam Tam Records
1999 ‘Mission Impossible ‘Tour Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Curaçao & Aruba
2000 Concert with Luis Conte, Raul Rekov, Armando Peraza.
2001 Cubop City Big Band Torres y Salsa festival France
2002 Cubop City Big Band cd 'Arsenio' on Tam Tam Records
2002 Cubop City Big Band concerts with tresséro Nelson Gonzales
2003 North Sea Jazz festival Cubop City Big Band
2004 Cubop City Big Band Theatre Tour 'The Mambo Kings' with Bob Fosko
2005 Theatre tour Cubop City Big Band ‘Tribute to Afro Cuba’ 10 year anniversay! with Leonardo Amuedo
2005 Theatre tour Cubop City Big Band ‘Latin Vocal Explosion’ with Izaline Calister & Lilian Vieira
2006 Caribean tour Cubop City Big Band to Bonaire & Curaçao
2006 North Sea Jazz festival Cubop City Big Band
2006 Live album‘Latin Vocal Explosion’ with Izaline Calister & Lilian Vieira
2007 Tour to Colombia, Surinam, Curaçao, Aruba
2008 Tribute to Tito Puente with Andy Gonzalez
2010 Album release Que Sensación!
2010 Otro Mundo Musica Venezolana with Roberto Quintero 2010
2011 Otro Mundo Colombia with Edmar Castañeda 2011
2012 Otro Mundo ‘Uruguay’ met Beatriz Aguiar, José Lopretti, José Perez 2012