Click here for Tom's photos from the final day of this year's SJ Jazz Summer Fest. Wil Campa, Vissión Latina, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and The Cookers still to come. Also a special tribute to Arturo Riera.

Now we know who taught Carlos Caro to play - dear old Mom!

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Here are the next two installments of Tom Ehrlich's SJ Jazz Summer Fest photos. Part III covers The Rebirth Jazz Band, Raq Filipina, and Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.

              Leader and tuba player Philip Frazier of the Rebirth Jazz Band - photo by Tom Ehrlich

Part IV has Edgardo Cambón & Candela with Calixto Oviedo and The John Santos Sextet with all sorts of luminaries sitting in.

                            Edgardo Cambón & John Santos - photo by Tom Ehrlich

Here are Part I and Part II. More galleries coming from Sunday, including Wil Campa, Vissión Latina, Pellejo Seco, Natalie Cressman, Yosvany Terry and many more.

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Tom's second SJ Jazz Summer Fest gallery is up - this one deals exclusively with Dafnis Prieto's  amazing Proverb Trio. They improvise everything - chords, form, lyrics, grooves - but it's not the abstract madness you expect from "free jazz" - the musical materials are very accessible to the ear so what you hear sounds composed even though it's improvised - truly amazing. 

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Dayramir González (see Dayramir González Brings it to LA and Beyond , July 16) recently sent word about another great video, Iyesa con Miel:  

Ivan Llanes  (see Ivan Llanes & The Cuban Way , March 30) checked in with one of his own, La Caliente :

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