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-by Brick Wahl
An amazing range of Latin American music will blow jazz minds this weekend, beginning Friday at California Plaza with Afro Cuba Calling! That’s congueroCandido Camera, pianist Chuchito Valdes Jr. (of the Bebo and Chucho line), the great drummer/percussionist Bobby Sanabria, and the locals Frank Fontaine on sax and Rene Camacho on bass. On Saturday Brazilian guitarist Dori Caymmi plays his jazzy bossa and choros at LACMA from 5 to 7 p.m. Then at California Plaza at 8 p.m. it’s Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective. The Garifuna are a blend of native Caribs and escaped slaves tucked away on the coasts of Belize and points south. Palacio’s interpretation of his people’s music on Watina is beautiful — resonant of Africa (think Mali) in the lilting melodies, with mellow Caribbean rhythms and an undertow of something urgent, even dark. And that gig ends well before the second set of Jose Rizo’s fantastic Jazz on the Latin Side All-Stars at the Jazz Bakery. If you dig Rizo’s radio show, you’ll dig this band. On Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Ford Amphitheatre the Colombian Music Festival brings authentic cumbias, vallenato, rumbas, merengues, tobrellinos, bambucos, guabinas, pasillos, juropos and llanera from Los Carrangueros, the Guafa Trio, Elda Florez and Afro-Colombian vocalist Petrona Martinez. Justo Almario is on sax. Finally, the splendid and lively Brazilian pianist Marcos Ariel plays Jobim at the Temple Bar that night. Opening the show is mandolin wonder Ted Falcon’s trio doing samba, choro and blues. Every single event in this paragraph is highly recommended. 08/01/07 >> go there
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