Gregorio Uribe Big Band

Big band leader, composer and accordionist Gregorio Uribe was born in Colombia, studied at Berklee College of Music and is now based in New York where he leads the Gregorio Uribe Big Band: a 16-piece orchestra made up of musicians from six different countries that blend cumbia and other danceable Colombian rhythms with powerful big band arranging. The band has held a monthly residency at Zinc Bar for four years and has performed at The Kennedy Center, Blue Note and Celebrate Brooklyn among many others.

In October of 2015 the band will release their debut album “Cumbia Universal” (Zoho Music) at Jazz at Lincoln Center. This album was financed by their followers in a successful Kickstarter campaign and it includes a multi-Grammy winning artist to be announced, reggae artist Meta Dia (Senegal), Sagit Shir (Israel) from the electro-pop duo “Hank and cupcakes” and the jazz vocals of Sofia Ribeiro (Portugal).

Gregorio has been a guest artist with Carlos Vives and was named by the government of Colombia as one of the "100 Most Successful Colombians Abroad". He has been an artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College and a commissioned composer for Grammy-winning Arturo O'Farrill’s Afro Latin Orchestra.