Poncho Sanchez at the Jazz Alley (July 2011)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Seattle audience has adopted Poncho Sanchez as a local favorite, showing this with an almost full Jazz Alley on the 1st set on a Thursday evening.\u00a0As I have mentioned in previous posts, Poncho\u2019s music is an easy blend of genres that go through Jazz, Soul, and Salsa, and Poncho and his band make it and enjoyable experience without taking themselves too seriously.<\/p>\n
Poncho was a bit more communicative with the audience this time around, sharing the news of the upcoming new CD, and also random stories like the origin of the song \u201cChanko\u201d with is a mix of \u201cchange\u201d and some incidents that occurred during one of his trips to Japan when the song was being composed.<\/p>\n
Unlike previous times, the set didn\u2019t have a lot of danceable music, but Poncho mixes the blend of music he plays depending on the occasion. I attended the 1st set of the evening where diners predominate in the audience and he has tighter time constraints due to the 2nd set coming afterwards. I\u2019ve attended shows where he makes it more danceable in the late show of the evening.<\/p>\n
Expecting Poncho’s New CD with Dizzy-Chano Music<\/h3>\n All in all, it\u2019s always a good experience to go see Poncho Sanchez<\/a> and his Latin Jazz band, and I\u2019m looking forward to the September release of his new CD featuring the music of Dizzy Gillespie and legendary Cuban \u201cconguero\u201d Chano Pozo.<\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Poncho Sanchez brought some Latin heat from California and energized the Seattle\u00a0Dimitrious\u2019 Jazz Alley stage with a different repertoire than from his previous presentations. I saw a more energized Poncho Sanchez, sporting a shorter beard. Poncho’s Presentation at the Jazz Alley As I had hoped, Poncho Sanchez played a medley of the Dizzy Gillespie and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[455,454,298,98,199,15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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