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Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Band at Scullers Jazz Club
Courtesy of Marla Kleman | Posted on March 10, 2015
Where
Scullers Jazz Club
400 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA
Map
617-562-4111
When
Fri, May 29, 2015
10:00 pm
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Musicians
Poncho Sanchez
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For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straightahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources.
"To me, Latin jazz is the world's greatest music," says Sanchez. "It has the melodic and harmonic sophistication of jazz and American standards, and the flavor and energy of Latin American music. What I'm most proud of is that this music – while it may sound exotic at times – is from America. It was born in New York City, when Chano Pozo met Dizzy Gillespie for the first time in the mid-1940s...