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Pacific Mambo Orchestra at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Jackson Theater
Courtesy of Gerry Sanders | Posted on April 26, 2017
Where
Jackson Theater
Healdsburg Jazz Festival
4440 Day School Place
Santa Rosa, CA
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When
Sun, June 4, 2017
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Christian Tumalan
keyboardsJulio de la Cruz
bassArmando Cordoba
vocalsOmar Ledezma
congasJavier Cabanillas
congasMike Rinta
tromboneAbout
The pride of San Francisco, the 20-piece Pacific Mambo Orchestra became the talk of the town a few years ago when the band beat out Marc Anthony and Carlos Vives in the “Best Latin Tropical Album” category (for the orchestras’ self-titled debut recording) at the 2014 Grammy Awards. The PMO, as this spicy outfit is affectionately known, have only built on that honor as the years have passed.
With pianist Christian Tumalan and trumpeter Steffen Kuehn at the helm, the PMO have brought the sounds of the classic Latin jazz big bands of the 1940s and 50s, as well as such stylistic fixtures of Latin dance music as salsa, the mambo, cha-cha-cha and bachata, firmly into the 21st century. Cleverly incorporating elements of hip-hop and R&B into the mix, the band embraces the present, refusing to be mired in nostalgic convention. Yet the PMO also lets its roots proudly show. “When people hear ‘salsa,’ it still sounds alien,” Tumalán has said. “‘Mambo’ is different. It’s a bit sexy; it’s a different mind-set… “It brings back that feel of the Palladium in New York.”...