SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST PART 2

AUGUST 11, 2017 THRU AUGUST 13, 2017

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

PHOTOS AND TEXT BY TOM EHRLICH © 2017

Part 2 covers the groups I witnessed and photographed on Sunday, August 13, 2017.  The groups include Jazz by 5, Manny Martinez y La Rebeldia, Lili Hernandez Orchestra Featuring Calixto Oviedo, Daymé Arocena and Bay Area Salsa All-Stars Featuring Jimmy Bosch.

Lily Hernandez and daughter at the Salsa Stage

Finally was able to spend some time at the Salsa Stage and caught some outstanding groups.

LILY HERNANDEZ ORCHESTRA FEATURING CALIXTO OVIEDO

Lily Hernández and her band, including her husband Cuban living legends Calixto Oviedo, Ernesto Kindelan and Carlos Caro.  It was a family affair with Lily's and Calxito's two young children perfroming with their parents.

Lily Hernández's and Calxito Oviedo's children

Lily Hernández

Calixto Oviedo

Carlos Caro

John Calloway

Ernesto Kindelan formerly the bassist for Charanga Habaera

Erick Peralta

Roberto Morris and El Niche

Calixto and his son

Calixto

Lily Hernández

Lily's and Calixto's daughter

Ernesto Kindelan

DAYMÉ AROCENA

Daymé Arocena and her group are one of the most exciting and talented new groups from Cuba. Daymé is musically and personally much more mature than her age of 25. She composes and arranges most of the songs her group performs and has an extremely engaging stage prescence. She describes her style as being herself on stage and two of her most influential artists are Nina Samone (Amerian jazz singer and pianist) and Cuban singer La Lupe.  Daymé considers herself to be a jazz singer and I would descrbie her syle as a combination of Cuban folkloric and popular music, soul music and jazz.  Her trio consists of young virtuosos - Jorge Luis Lagarza on keyboards, Roly Herrera on drum set and Rafael Aldama on bass, all of whom are great soloists.

Daymé Arocena and Rafael Aldama

Jorge Luis Lazarga

Rafael Aldama

Roly Herrera

BAY AREA SALSA ALL STARS FEATURING JIMMY BOSCH

Jimmy Bosch

The Bay Area Salsa All Stars featuring Jimmy Bosch, considered by many to be the best salsa trombonist in the world today presented a tribute to timbalero Louie Romero (legendary timbalero who played on many New York City salsa recordings.  Louie also played timbales during th set.

John Calloway flute an musical director and Anthony Blea

John Calloway

Christian Pepin timbales

Javier Navarette

Jimmy Bosch

Jimmy Bosch

Louie Romero

Mara Fox

Marco Diaz piano and Ayla Davila bass

Orlando Torriente

MANNY MARTíNEZ & REBELDIA

Manny Martínez & Rebeldia swung hard with their style of Salsa.  Manny recently released a new great recording called Identidad Profunda.

Manny Martínez

Ayla Davila

Carlos Caro congas and Christian Pepin timbales

Carlos Caro

Christian Pepin

Diane, Manny's wife

Hector Lugo

Hector Lugo

Manny Martínez

Erick Peralta

JAZZ BY 5

Jazz by 5 is an all star group consisting of veteran jazz musicians George Cables piano, Eddie Gomez bass, Randy Brecker trumpet, Jimmy Cobb drums and Javon Jackson sax.  It was exciting to witness this straight ahead jazz group especially Jimmy Cobb 858years young who could still swing hard.

Eddie Gomez

Javon Jackson

Randy Brecker, Javon Jackson and Eddie Gomez

Jimmy Cobb

Randy Brecker and Geprge Cables