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Music Monday Featuring Grammy Winner Poncho Sanchez at Spaghettini
Courtesy of William Thompson | Posted on February 8, 2024
When
Mon, March 4, 2024
6:30 pm
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Musicians
Poncho Sanchez
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For more than three decades, conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straight ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources. Throughout his career Sanchez has held aloft the torch lit by such innovators as Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader, embraced by each of those icons and entrusted to carry forward the traditions of Latin Jazz. Sanchez’s influences are numerous, and his catalogue is rich with his homages to several of his mentors – Santamaria, Puente and Tjader among them. But alongside those Latin...