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JAZZ ON THE LATIN SIDE ALL STARS VOL. 1
For
the past decade, Latin-music lovers in Southern California have
been blessed with the sounds of KLON's Jose Rizo and his Friday
night radio show "Jazz on the Latin Side." Rizo's dedication
and deep understanding of the music has allowed the genre to blossom
to unexpected levels. By supplying his regular listeners with
the top sounds in Latin jazz, he has gained the attention of record
and film companies, concert and festival promoters, radio station
directors and disc jockeys, night club owners, colleges and universities,
cultural institutions, music educators, book and music publishers.
He has also helped young talent on the path to musical success,
and enabled established acts to gain further recognition and notoriety.
The show has recently found an even wider audience via the internet
at www.klon.org.
On January 7th 2000, 28 of LA's top Latin jazz musicians were
brought together by Rizo at B.B King's Club in Universal Studios
to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his radio program. The
capacity audience was treated to what was to become a historical,
once-in-a-lifetime event--the birth of the Jazz on the Latin Side
All-Stars. The musicians, feeling the overwhelming enthusiasm
from the audience and the friendly competitiveness between each
other, pushed themselves to take their individual and collective
performances to a higher level. For one night, B.B. King's was
transformed into a single sweltering mass of music lovers--dancing,
sweating, grooving to what everyone knew would probably never
occur again. Fortunately CuBop Records was on hand to record it.
Appearing that night were Francisco Aguabella, Alex Acuña,
Justo Almario, The Banda Brothers, Luis Conte, Sal Cracchiolo,
Susie Hansen, Robert Incelli, Danilo Lozano, Al McKibbon, Ricardo
"Tiki" Pasillas, Louie Perez (Los Lobos), Joe Rotundi,
Otmaro Ruiz, Poncho Sanchez, Asdru Sierra (Ozomatli), Francisco
Torres, Arturo Velasco and many others. The concert, which will
be released over two volumes, features the compositions of Jose
Rizo himself.
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