John Santos sextet at Bing 2/9/19

[Drunk Monk]

A night of Afro-Cuban jazz at the magnificent Bing Concert hall.  Big band - 15 musicians (6 drummers!) and 3 dancers.  Great fun.  Latin jazz is so cool, yet so caliente.  Orestes Vilato was amazing and stole every moment he was on - so jubilant and so on point whenever he cut in with his percussive attacks.  Bobi Cespedes, the only performer I knew from her former work with Mickey Hart, was so regal and surprisingly didn't touch a drum.  

Been really digging jazz lately.  I think I'm finally at a point where I can understand the fundamentals of jazz vocabulary.  And it's amazing.