For three days in August, downtown San José, California, was the epicenter of some great music in the SF Bay Area. We heard bands that put...
On the 22nd of May, The Sound Room on upper Broadway in Oakland, California, presented guitarist Ray Obiedo and his Latin Jazz Group. At the sold...
Humberto Ramírez knows how important Tite Curet Alonso was during his lifetime to the music we refer to as Salsa, so it comes as no surprise...
Having seen Omar Sosa in two previous contexts, The Quarteto Americanos and the Suba Trio, I was very curious to hear the Aguas album with violinist/singer...
There is an inherent problem with the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, it is impossible to see all of the artists one wants to see. So,...
It has been a long time, ten years to be exact, since Paquito D’Rivera last graced the stage at the Miner auditorium in the SF Jazz...
Walking into Sam First near the LAX airport on July the 29th for the first time, I was taken aback by the intimate nature of the...
Having seen Isaiah Collier and The Chosen Few last year in San Francisco, I foolishly thought he would be doing much the same show in Berkeley,...
While scrolling through YouTube recently I happened upon Mr. Flute – The Art Webb Documentary (2022) directed by Omar J. Pineda. I first heard about Webb...
On two separate occasions this year my wife and I have experienced the engaging music of Humberto Ramírez’s Big Band at the Restaurant Metropol, Isla Verde,...
With the help of Danilo Navas, my wife and I were able to witness an outstanding concert on our recent trip to Puerto Rico featuring the...
At the beginning of each of the last three years, John Santos gathered together his sextet and musician friends and had a CD release party, this...
Having followed Ray Obiedo’s groups for four decades, I was delighted to see that his Latin Jazz Project was playing for two nights at The Sound...
For quite a while I had been trying to see Isaiah Collier and The Chosen Few, to no avail. I was refused entry to a venue...
Prior to hearing Omar Sosa and his Quarteto Americanos perform in Healdsburg, CA, I’d listened to many of his recordings. I’d watched the excellent documentary about...
