A Resume Centering on Latin Jazz, With Interests That Include Cultural Fusion.

CONCERTS; LATIN jazz; CULTURAL fusion; POLYRHYTHM (Music theory); YOSVANY, Terry

The emblematic tune in Yosvany Terry's early set at the Jazz Standard on Wednesday night was the closer, ''Summer Relief,'' a slippery bit of cultural cross talk. It began with a Yoruba chant by the conga player Pedro Martinez, in a call-and-response with the band. A groove materialized, in irregular polyrhythm, and then came a coiled melody assigned to Michael Rodriguez on trumpet and Mr. Terry on alto saxophone. Moments later the ground shifted again, to a crisp quintuple meter, and again, into headlong 4/4 swing: the rude and righteous pulse of New York hard bop, negotiated on its own terms. That added up to a lot of built-in convolutions for the first minute and a half of a song, though the ensemble made it feel bound by logic and bodily intuition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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