Jazz At The Grand With Poncho Sanchez at The Grand Long Beach Event Center

Jazz At The Grand
Part of a summer concert series benefiting the
Boys & Girls Clubs of Carson

Friday June 17, 2016
Doors Open at 7:00 PM
Event: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Location: The Palm Courtyard at The Grand Long Beach (Outdoor Event)

Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band
If music were about pictures, percussionist Poncho Sanchez’s music would best be described as a kaleidoscopic swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At any given show, on any given record, fragments of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and other infectious grooves collide and churn in a fiery swirl, with results that are no less than dazzling...

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Jazz At The Grand
Part of a summer concert series benefiting the
Boys & Girls Clubs of Carson

Friday June 17, 2016
Doors Open at 7:00 PM
Event: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Location: The Palm Courtyard at The Grand Long Beach (Outdoor Event)

Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band
If music were about pictures, percussionist Poncho Sanchez’s music would best be described as a kaleidoscopic swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At any given show, on any given record, fragments of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and other infectious grooves collide and churn in a fiery swirl, with results that are no less than dazzling. Sanchez grew up in a suburb of L.A., where he was raised on an unusual cross section of sounds that included straightahead jazz, Latin jazz and American soul. By his teen years, his musical consciousness had been solidified by the likes of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, Wilson Pickett and James Brown. Whatever the genre, the mesmerizing array of sounds and colors from Poncho Sanchez’s youth have telegraphed across the decades and continue to inform his creative sensibilities to this day. His over 20 year relationship with Concord Records has yielded two dozen recordings, a Grammy Award and several Grammy nominations

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