Poncho Sanchez And His Latin Jazz Band at Scottsdale Center for the Arts

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8:00pm – 10:30pm; Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band; Virginia G. Piper Theater; Tickets: $59 $39 $29; 480-499-TKTS (8587). For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, 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 and South American sources. His influences are numerous, but among the more prominent figures that inform his music are two of the primary architects of Latin jazz – conga drummer and composer Chano Pozo and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.