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Read the article about this performance here: http://www.theprecarious.com/content/everything-poetry-pink-hawks-revolution

Pink Hawks, a 13 piece afrobeat, latin soul, jazzy funky ensemble, perform bandleader Yuzo Nieto's new song about the Occupy Movement, "Occupy" at Dazzle, a premier jazz club in Denver, Colorado.

Included is Yuzo's interview about the new song, including a touching story about how this song touched an audience member.

Check it out, go buy their new album Shima, and go Like them on Facebook!

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The band's engagement of all the bodies in Denver jazz club Dazzle, including Yuzo's three month old daughter attending her first Pink Hawks show, is as much a buildup of energy as is the progressional layering of saxophones, trumpet, psychedelic keys and guitars, funky bass beats, and latin and west african percussion, creating the afrobeat latin soul sound the band is renowned for. The roots of the improvisational psychedelic jazz band they were born from are still present, but their voice has evolved into epic songs which showcase each of up to 13 band members in pointed solos, engaging the "call and response" style used throughout indigenous music traditions worldwide. Band members include bandleader and co-founder Yuzo Nieto, co-founder Mike Neff, Nick Krier, Laura Gibson, Joe Tabano, Koffi Toudji, Lannie Shelton, Jon Olsson, Trevor Morris, Zay Rios, Andy Wild, Neil McCormick and Robert Cole-Sackett.

Yuzo and three other bandmates are teachers, but on stage they are all teaching us living lessons through their songs.

The new song of the evening, "Occupy", is a song Yuzo wrote about how the Occupy Movement should not be an internalized war.

Read the article to see the powerful effect of this song on just one listener.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pink-Hawks/127415593980107