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Tom Ehrlich - 2024 Monterey Jazz Festival, Part 1
MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL PART 1
SEPTEMBER 27- 29, 2024
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY TOM EHRLICH ©
This years report on the Monterey Jazz Festival is presented late due to problems with the timba.com web site.
The report will focus on the Afro-Caribbean Muisc groups at the festival and some time in the future a feature story on the Pedrito Martinez Group by Kevin Moore will be posted.
Traditionally the Afro-Caribbean Music presented at the festival has been either jazz groups or orchestras which play dance music for listening such as Tito Puente. This year for the first time I am aware of, the festival had a salsa dance group every night where the audience was encouraged to dance. The group was Christian Pepin &. Orquesta Bembé, a Bay Area All Star group which played every night of the festival, each night being a different set of music. Pianist Jonathan Montes was the only musicain who was not from the Bay Area - originally from Puerto Rico now residing in Los Angeles.
Friday's group consisted of:
Christian Pepín - leader, percussion and coros
Karl Perazzo - percussion and coros
Ernesto Mazar-Kindelán - bass an coros
Jonathan Montes - piano and coros
Christelle Durandy - vocals
Braulio Barrera - vocals
Bill Ortega - trumpet
Oscar Soltero - percussion and coros
Christian Pepín leader, percussionist and coros
Ernesto Mazar-Kindelán bass and coros
Karl Perazzo percussion and coros
Christelle Durandy vocals
Braulio Barrera vocals
Jonathan Montes piano and coros
Bill Ortega trumpet
Oscar Soltero percussion
The band added two more horns on Saturday and Sunday - Tony Peebles on sax and Ora Folen on trombone.
What follows are images for the band's performances on Saturday and Sunday.
Dancers and band
Christelle Durandy and Braulio Barrera
Christian Pepín
Christelle Durandy and Braulio Barrera
Christelle Durandy and Braulio Barrera
Jonathan Montes, Karl Perrazo,Ernesto Mazar-Kindelán, Christian Pepín and horns
Dancers
Bill Ortega
Bill Ortega
Braulio Barrera and Christian Pepín
Christelle Durandy and Christian Pepín
Chriistelle Durandy
Christelle Durandy
Ernesto Mazar-Kindelán
Ernesto Kindelán
Jonathan Montes
Karl Perrazo and Christian Pepín
Dancers
Karl Perrazo
Karl Perrazo
Karl Perrazo
Dancers
Ora Folden
Ora Folden
Oscar Soltero
Oscarf Soltero
Tony Peebles
Each concert was well attended and the audiance enthusiastically enjoyed the music.