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Poncho Sanchez and Terence Blanchard = Chano y Dizzy!

Chano y Dizzy! Honors the legacy of Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie.

For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, percussionist Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straightahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources. His influences are numerous, but among the more prominent figures that inform his music are two of the primary architects of Latin jazz -- conga drummer and composer Chano Pozo and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

Sanchez pays tribute to these two titans on his new album, Chano y Dizzy!, his 25th recording as a bandleader on Concord Picante, set for release on September 27, 2011. Joining Sanchez on the 11-song set is trumpeter Terence Blanchard, a New Orleans native who literally grew up amid the Cuban and Latin jazz scene and has been a longtime fan of the music's multicultural underpinnings.

Something completely different in the form of a promo from Concord records. Examining bags and how people express themselves with mobile devices I sometimes forget that this whole other world of self-expression exists. In another life I played allot of music and followed Terrence Blanchard work very closely. I'm looking forward to listening to this ... though likely on my iPod.

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