Vail Jazz is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Vail, Colorado. Through six unique performance series and three signature educational programs, Vail Jazz perpetuates jazz with a focus on young musicians and young audiences.
Poncho Sanchez recounts his decorative path of pounding rawhide Growing up with 10 siblings in a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles, Poncho Sanchez had to work for everything he got starting from a young age. Music drew him from the time he was a small child, but percussion was not his first calling. Sanchez, the […]
Previously I have written about the differences between Afro-Cuban jazz and American jazz and examined the reasons why the descendants of the same African ancestors, living only 90 miles apart in the New World, created two distinctively different forms of jazz. I concluded that that the outcome was predictable considering that each group’s music evolved […]
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Not-To-Miss Vail Jazz Party Shows For All Music Fans
/in 2018, 2019, 2019, In and Around Vail, Jazz News, Performances, Press Release, Vail Jazz Festival, Vail Jazz Party /by vailjazzteamAs usual, the Vail summer is flying by at mach speed, but the season’s crowning event – the Vail Jazz Party over Labor Day weekend – is geared up to be summer’s grand finale like never before. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the 2019 Vail Jazz Party is pulling out all of the stops and you […]