![]() ![]() We met years ago and have played opposite each other many times. I'm sure you have shared the bill with him before. THEATERTIMES – The show in October is part of a three-night jazz weekend that your Latin Jazz Band opens on Friday with Eddie Palmieri's Big Salsa Orchestra. The stories provided insights into the many legends he has worked with and known. A quick, sincere laugh came frequently as he colored his answers with recollections from an extensive library of personal experiences. We spoke by phone in May 2015 as background for a preview of his Segerstrom Center for the Arts show on October 9. ![]() Today he has 19 Concord Picante albums to his credit including Latin Soul, his 1999 Grammy winner for Best Latin Jazz Performance. ![]() He began as a guitarist and vocalist, even serving as lead singer in a high school band before teaching himself to play the flute, drums and timbales, then settling on the congas of his idol, Mongo Santamaria. He absorbed that new music along with the evolution from bebop and big bands to hard bop, cool jazz, and most significantly, Latin Jazz. It was 1955, the year Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" became the first nationwide rock 'n' roll number one record and both Little Richard and Chuck Berry were scoring major hits. Before he was four, his family moved from Laredo, Texas to Norwalk, California. ![]() P oncho Sanchez was born October 30, 1951, the fifth son and last of eleven children. ![]()
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