For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero
PONCHO SANCHEZ has stirred up a fiery stew of straight-ahead jazz, gritty soul
music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and
South American sources.
Saturday,
Sept 5, 2015, 8 PM
TICKETS beginning at $35
829 N. Davis St.
Jacksonville, FL 32202
www.ritzjacksonville.com (904)807-2010
About the Ritz Theatre and Museum
The Ritz Theatre and Museum, located in Jacksonville’s historic African American community of La Villa, celebrating the artistic culture of African American life in Northeast Florida and the African Diaspora with museum exhibits, concerts, films, lectures, dance and dramatic arts.
SMG welcomes Grammy Award-winning, Latin jazz musician Poncho
Sanchez, as he performs at the Ritz Theatre September 5th at
8 PM.
For more than
three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero Poncho Sanchez has
stirred up a fiery stew of straight-ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and
infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South
American sources.
He’s produced 19 albums, including his first album Salsa
Picante (1980); Latin Soul which garnered a Grammy
Award for Best Latin Jazz Album in 2000; his 2005 CD entitled: Do It!,
which features the iconic band Tower of Power on two tracks, as well as South
African trumpeter Hugh Masekela; and Live in Hollywood (2012).
Poncho Sanchez is a self-taught musician playing
the flute, drums and timbales; and finally settled on the conga’s while in high
school by locking himself in his mother’s garage, mimicking the percussion
sounds he heard while listening to Cal Tjader records. After a chance meeting
with Tjader in 1975, Sanchez landed a permanent position with his band, which
was the start of his professional music career.
Other notable influences on Sanchez’s music include: congo
drummer and composer Chano Pozo, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane,
Miles Davis, Mongo Santamaria, Wilson Pickett and James Brown.
The Ritz Theatre has additional jazz shows on the horizon
with the September edition of the Jazz Discovery Series, which will feature
Jacksonville-native Jamison Ross and the John Lumpkin Trio;
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and
former front man for Booker T & the MG’s—Booker T. Jones; and one of
the world’s foremost pianist and composers Randy Weston’s African
Rhythms.
Tickets are available at the Tom Bush Family of Dealerships
Box Offices located at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena or at the Ritz
Theatre and Museum. Tickets are also available at www.ticketmaster.com or charge by
phone at 1-800-745-3000.
For more information, call the Ritz at 904-807-2010 or
visit: www.ritzjacksonville.com and www.jaxevents.com to see upcoming shows.
The Ritz Theatre and Museum is located in downtown Jacksonville at 829 North
Davis Street.
About the Ritz Theatre and Museum
The Ritz Theatre and Museum, located in Jacksonville’s historic African American community of La Villa, celebrating the artistic culture of African American life in Northeast Florida and the African Diaspora with museum exhibits, concerts, films, lectures, dance and dramatic arts.
About SMG
Founded in 1977,
SMG provides management services to more than 230 public assembly facilities
including convention and exhibition centers, arenas, stadiums, theatres,
performing arts centers, equestrian facilities, science centers and a variety
of other venues. With facilities across the globe, SMG manages more than 14.4
million square feet of exhibition space and over 1.75 million sports and
entertainment seats. As the recognized global industry leader, SMG provides
venue management, sales, marketing, event booking and programming, construction
and design consulting, and pre-opening services for such landmark facilities as
McCormick Place & Solider Field in Chicago, Moscone Convention Center in
San Francisco, Houston’s Reliant Park and the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. SMG also
offers food and beverage operations through its concessions, catering and
special events division, SAVOR, currently servicing more than 100 accounts
worldwide. For more information visit www.smgworld.com
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