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City Beat Magazine, Concert Preview >>
-by Kirk Silsbee
If you attended the Playboy Festival in June, one fact jumped out at you. As a block, the Latin bands—Cuban, Puerto Rican and SoCal Tropicál--made uniformly strong showings. The summer music programs make that kind of variety, and quality, available to the whole city this week. As part of the Grand Performances series (350 S. Grand Ave., L.A.; at 8 p.m.; free; 213-687-2159), an extraordinary conflagration of percussionists convenes on Friday. “Afro Cuba Calling!” features the pioneer Birdland veteran Candido Camero (in an extremely rare local appearance), along with Chuchito Valdés, Bobby Sanbria’s big band and local heroes Frank Fontaine and Rene Camacho. The beats will be awfully strong on this night.
Saturday at Grand Performances (at 8:00 p.m.), Belizean guitarist and singer Andy Palacios and the Garifuna Collective serve up the Afro-Amerindian songs on their seductive new Wátina (Cumbancha) CD. It’s music that’s folksy, rootsy and deeply elemental. The same night, deejay Jose Rizzo’s exciting Jazz on The Latin Side All Stars lands at the Jazz Bakery. The precision and discipline results in big band Latin jazz that would hold its own anywhere in the world.
Guitarist Ted Falcon and harmonica wizard Pablo Fagundes play at Temple Bar Sunday. Their new release, Transcontinental Music Express (MP) is some of the tastiest playing you’ll hear in any genre: originals, choro (Brazilian roots music) anthems, blues and David Grisman songs. The styles change but the dynamic interplay and charged riposting remain throughout. 08/20/07
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