Valentines Day set to be jazzed up
Studio City-based lovers of Latin jazz are sure to want to take their sweethearts to hear Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band’s Valentine’s Day performance.
Since the 1960s, Sanchez has been belting out lead vocals and playing soul, Latin, Afro-Cuban and Cuban jazz, and Changui on percussion and congas. Today his band also includes a trombone, trumpet, flugelhorn, sax, piccolo, flute, piano, organ, bass, bongo timbales and guitar.
Conguero Poncho Sanchez is a Grammy award winner, taking the award for Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1999 for his album ‘Latin Soul’. Since 2007, he has released nine jazz albums. His latest record, released in 2012 was his ‘Live in Hollywood’ offering.
Sanchez has said at his concerts that he feels that Latin jazz contains the harmonic and melodic sophistication of jazz while maintaining American standards and the energy and flavor of Latin American music. He has noted that the music originated here in the U.S. in New York City during the 1940s, courtesy of jazz icons Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo. Printing companies have turned out droves of iconic posters over the years of Dizzy and the bent trumpet he developed.
The concert will be given Saturday evening, February 14, upstairs at the Vitello’s Jazz and Supper Club, 4349 Tujunga Avenue, Studio City. Performance start times are scheduled for 7:30 pm and 10:00 pm.
Since the 1960s, Sanchez has been belting out lead vocals and playing soul, Latin, Afro-Cuban and Cuban jazz, and Changui on percussion and congas. Today his band also includes a trombone, trumpet, flugelhorn, sax, piccolo, flute, piano, organ, bass, bongo timbales and guitar.
Conguero Poncho Sanchez is a Grammy award winner, taking the award for Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1999 for his album ‘Latin Soul’. Since 2007, he has released nine jazz albums. His latest record, released in 2012 was his ‘Live in Hollywood’ offering.
Sanchez has said at his concerts that he feels that Latin jazz contains the harmonic and melodic sophistication of jazz while maintaining American standards and the energy and flavor of Latin American music. He has noted that the music originated here in the U.S. in New York City during the 1940s, courtesy of jazz icons Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo. Printing companies have turned out droves of iconic posters over the years of Dizzy and the bent trumpet he developed.
The concert will be given Saturday evening, February 14, upstairs at the Vitello’s Jazz and Supper Club, 4349 Tujunga Avenue, Studio City. Performance start times are scheduled for 7:30 pm and 10:00 pm.