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JazzFest Picante with Poncho Sanchez & Chino Nuñez featuring Adalberto Santiago
Friday, October 5, 8:00 pm
Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus Auditorium
Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band and
Two great bands…One fantastic Night of Latin Music
For more than 28 years, Tri-C JazzFest has successfully presented Latin Jazz during the annual April festival. For the past three years, JazzFest Picante has had a special weekend, separate from JazzFest in the Fall, solely devoted to Latin/Afro-Cuban/Afro-Caribbean music. This year, the Picante celebration moved up a month to coincide with the Hispanic Heritage Celebration.
Oct. 5, 2007, 8 p.m.
Tri-C Metro Campus Auditorium
Tickets: $30
Poncho Sanchez
Possessed of the same jubilant spirits that roamed ancient jungles compelling the ancestor’s palms to slap and pound drums, gathered round roaring festival fires while celebrating their aged tales, Poncho Sanchez is steam rolling his caravan of charismatic, high energy grooves into the Tri-C Metro Campus Auditorium.
When armed with nothing more than his congas, Sanchez is a force vigorous enough to echo around the world. In fact, circling the globe in steady rotations, while forever searing his name upon the jazz world’s list of legends is something that Poncho Sanchez has been doing since the early 70s. It should come as no surprise that a person so well disciplined in the hybrid Afro-Cuban sound would go on to be known as a master innovator, and in doing so amass a hefty trail of marvelous and timeless collaborations.
Prior to his latest CD, the vibrant disc, “Do It!, provided Sanchez the long awaited opportunity to record with Hugh Masekela, whom he has been an avid fan of since his high school days. Yet, not skipping a beat with his most recent album release, “Raise Your Hand,” Sanchez successfully engineered powerful musical fusions with the infamous vocalist Eddie Floyd, soulful organist Booker T. Jones and guitar guru Steve Cropper among many others; all of whom served to provide Sanchez inspiration and mutual respect.
Although, Poncho Sanchez is very adamant about the fact that the music produced by his band is unequivocally “Latin Jazz,” it’s a certainty that the immense range and liquid dexterity of his lifetime of arrangements and tunes owe vast oceans to his unquestionable love affair with soul music.
In a world where it seems that virtually everything is a poorly made, soulless, carbon copy of some other pitiful product and all made for the least possible effort, it’s bordering on a miracle that ultra talented Chino Nuñez is manufacturing such superb music. And, if that fact alone is not enough, not only will
Nuñez is, without question, the living breathing epitome of innovation having forged an electric career that is more akin to a deliciously audible gumbo than anything else. During the more than 30 years of his professional music making stanza, Chino has intermingled R&B, hip-hop, Latin jazz and even increasingly blossoming reggaeton into his pliable craft.
In response and appreciation for this impressive diversity of sound and culture, Chino, a Grammy winning artist and highly regarded band leader, composer and producer, has held massively successful concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, North Sea Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival amongst countless others. So vast is Nuñez’s reach that he was expressly recruited to apply his musical talents to such colossal Broadway productions such as Evita, The
In a creative musical collaboration, almost sinisterly so, Chino will share a stage with the much loved, highly energetic Adalberto Santiago, who has for more than 40 years been known as the “Puerto Rican Elvis.” At the inception of his career
Adalberto has recorded well over 50 albums, collaborated with Tito Puente, Roberto Roena, Louie Ramirez, Celia Cruz, and, like
Remaining on his steadfast course of concocting dynamic music Chino Nuñez is coming to
Make no mistake, this is undoubtedly some of the most hypnotic, hip swivel inducing, dancing in the aisles motivating and pleasurably memorable music that you will ever hear! Please, don’t cheat yourself. This show will be one of kind and a set that will unfailingly leave you wanting more.