Julio Montalvo Orchestra World Music Band from Miami, FL

Julio Montalvo is one of the leading trombonists from the island of Cuba. Songwriter, producer, arranger and session musician, he also appears as a solo artist, directing his own project since 1998, in which he blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with elements of modern Jazz to achieve an ingenious style-New Latin Jazz. Julio has participated in various Jazz Festivals, with his own projects and as a sideman, in the San Javier Jazz Festival, Jazz Plaza La Habana, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Jazz in Marciac France, Granada Jazz Festival, Valencia Jazz Festival, Lugo Jazz Festival and Universijazz, Ciudad Real, Art Basel Party Miami Desing District 2017 & 2018 with Julio Montalvo Orchestra. He has collaborated with the leading stars of Pop and Rock in Spain. He participate in the Grammy winning album as coproducer and co-arranger the Acoustic David Bisbal "A Night at the Theatre Royal" He has shared the stage with musicians from the international jazz circuit such as: Pat Metheny/Perico Sambeat Sedajazz Big Band, Team Cuba, Alain Pérez, Ximo Tébar, Dominique D'Piazza, Darryl Hall, Claudio Roditi, Donald Edwards, Miguel “Angá” Diaz, Mark Nightingale, Jose Negroni, Mike Mossman, Lucrecia, Oscar D' León, J.A El Canario, Aymeé Nuviola, Gladstone Galliza, Ramon Cardo Big Band, Edmundo Carneiro, and more. In July 2013 he created the Julio Montalvo Orchestra, a Big Band, a 20- musician orchestra that gives us an intimate yet entertaining show, backed by musicians of the highest standard. A time and place where the music was non-stop, starting with the orchestras of the “Big Three”: Machito, Tito Rodríguez, and Tito Puente. Legendary artists such as Arsenio Rodríguez, Celia Cruz, Benny Moré, Pérez Prado, Tito Puente, and countless others as huge crowds attended eager to learn this sensational dance creating the Mambo!