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Sylvia Cuenca

Sylvia Cuenca is a drummer, percussionist, bandleader, recording artist, clinician, and educator whose career connects New York and Bay Area jazz communities.

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Career Overview

About Sylvia Cuenca

Remo’s artist profile identifies Cuenca as a New York jazz drummer from San Jose and documents sustained work with Joe Henderson and Clark Terry. It also records touring, university clinics, and teaching at NJPAC and Stanford Jazz Workshop.[1]

Fillmore Jazz Festival’s biography connects Cuenca’s performing, educational, and mentoring roles to her Bay Area roots. Canonical release records preserve two albums under her own name and later collaborative recording work without relying on her obsolete HTTP-only site as a public source.[2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, drummer, and recording artist

Sylvia Cuenca leader groups

Cuenca’s own groups provide the setting for The Crossing, Exit 13, and festival appearances under her name.[2][3]

Drummer and ensemble member

Clark Terry groups

The Remo profile documents a seventeen-year association across Terry’s quintet and big band.[1]

Drum educator, clinician, and mentor

Jazz education and clinics

Institutional profiles document teaching and residency work at NJPAC, Stanford, universities, and jazz programs.[1][2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

1998

The Crossing

Leader and drummer

The leader recording places Cuenca with a horn-led ensemble, piano, bass, and percussion.[4]

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2002

Exit 13

Leader and drummer

The organ-trio album documents Cuenca with guitarist Dave Stryker and organist Kyle Koehler.[3]

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2022

Wondering

Co-leader and drummer

The collaborative recording places Cuenca with bassist Harvie S and guitarist Roni Ben-Hur.[3]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Sylvia Cuenca on Spotify

Stream Cuenca’s leader and collaborative recordings through her canonical artist profile.

Sylvia Cuenca on Apple Music

Explore The Crossing, Exit 13, and related recordings on Cuenca’s artist page.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sun, Sep 20, 4:30 PM

SYLVIA CUENCA’S BRIDGING GENERATIONS

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society · Half Moon Bay

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Manufacturer artist biography and career history

    Remo

  2. [2] Festival biography and Bay Area context

    Fillmore Jazz Festival

  3. [3] Canonical identity and recording catalog

    MusicBrainz

  4. [4] The Crossing release and personnel record

    Discogs