San Jose Jazz Festival (Aug 8-12) : Any suggestions on what to check out?

[Rod S]

I posted this in Craig's forum to try to get a 'broader' audience, but no replies... Let's try here.

 

http://www.sanjosejazz.org/

 

Haven't really been tuned into jazz lately, but i was planning on heading there next weekend. (I'm only 20 minutes north of SJ)

 

Any suggestions on what to check out? There seems to be a pretty good variety of stuff going on... are you guys familiar with any of the acts? I won't be able to go all the days, so I'm trying to plan.

 

Any recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thanks

[sbrock1san.rr.com]

Eric Sardinas on Aug. 11th might be real good. I've heard one of his CD's and he excellent. He's a blues player, not a jazzer.

[Rod S]

Thanks. I'll be sure to check him out. Yeah, they call it a jazz festival, but there's a lot of other styles there too. I saw a wonderful flamenco player in the Montreal Jazz Festival a few years back.

 

I'm going to end up spending most of my weekend there http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Dan O]

Check out David Koz .....I have a friend playing keyboards for him .

Dano

[mojosaur]

There are people I know

 

Rebecca Mauleon, great Afro-Cuban piano.

John Santos Afro-cuban santo folkloric drums and percussion.

Samba Ngo high octane African stuff, guitar

Steve Turre plays seashells and more, very funky.

Kenny Barron of course, jazz piano.

[Rod S]

Thanks for the tips.

 

There's a few acts that claim they play brazilian music, so I'm definitely checking those out.

 

Still trying to get a date for the show http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif Looks like women don't care much for Jazz these days (flame suit on) http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Rod S]

Originally posted by dano:

Check out David Koz .....I have a friend playing keyboards for him .

Dano

???

 

When is he playing? Couldn't find him in the schedule. Is he playing in a band? Thanks

 

Rod