Event Listing - Music

Thu Apr 3 - Sun Apr 6

The Latin Giants of Jazz

featuring former members of the Tito Puente Orchestra, John Rodriguez & Jose Madera

Location	Date and Time
Yoshi's Oakland 510 Embarcadero West Oakland, CA 94607 map cross street: Jack London Square district: Oakland (West)	Thu Apr 3 (8pm & 10pm) Fri Apr 4 (8pm & 10pm) Sat Apr 5 (8pm & 10pm) Sun Apr 6 (7pm & 9pm)

Description

Tito Puente was one of the principal creative forces and standard-bearers of Latin jazz. Though he died in 2000, his music lives on through the Latin Giants of Jazz, a group formed by a number of his key musicians, several of whom had been with him for 20 or even 30 years. With Puente’s longtime percussionist Jose Madera serving as musical director, the Latin Giants draw their repertoire from the music of Puente, Machito, and Tito Rodriguez as well as new Latin musical conceptions. Johnny Rodriguez and Eddie Montalvo are percussionists with the band; Frankie Vazquez is the fiery vocalist; Sonny Bravo the pianist; and Sam Burtis, Jimmy Bosch, and John Walsh among the stars of the full-bodied horn section. Viva Tito!

Thurs 8pm $22 & 10pm $18
Fri 8pm $26 $ 10pm $22
Sat both shows $26
Sun 7pm $26 & 9pm $18