MAY 12-15 | Jazz Manouche
May 13, 2022
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
Beso Negro's 7PM concert on FRI, MAY 13 will be broadcast live as part of Fridays Live, available to all SFJAZZ Members.
Standing apart from a host of Bay Area groups who have embraced the “jazz manouche” sound pioneered by Django Reinhardt, Beso Negro has taken a decidedly au courant approach, infusing classic French Romani jazz with a passionate, contemporary sensibility and modern rock energy. The band, scalable from a trio to a quintet, counts Andrew Bird, Nick Cave, and Tom Waits among its influences, which blend harmoniously with the improvisatory style popularized by Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli in the 1930s.
The Farifax-based band has toured extensively, turning in inspired sets at Outside Lands Music Festival, Oregon Country Fair, SXSW, Russian River Jazz & Blues Festival, Symbiosis, Whole Earth Festival, Slim’s SF, and the Great American Music Hall, and are known to SFJAZZ audiences through memorable performances at the 2017 at Summer Jazz Concert series in Palo Alto as well as the opening night event for the 36th San Francisco Jazz Festival in 2018.
Beso Negro has released a pair of superb efforts, including their 2011 debut Somos, and the follow-up, Burn it Down.
Beso Negro has released a pair of superb efforts, including their 2011 debut somos, and the follow-up, Burn it Down.
If they don't make you dance, check your heartbeat.
San Francisco Chronicle
If they don't make you dance, check your heartbeat.
San Francisco Chronicle
Personnel
Adam Roach vocals & guitar
Eli Carlton-Pearson guitar
Matt Montgomery violin & accordion
Cheyenne Young bass
Ethan Turner drums
Beso Negro has taken an old musical style and made it edgy and new.
Marin Independent Journal
Personnel
Adam Roach vocals & guitar
Eli Carlton-Pearson guitar
Matt Montgomery violin & accordion
Cheyenne Young bass
Ethan Turner drums
Beso Negro has taken an old musical style and made it edgy and new.
Marin Independent Journal
Watch & Listen
Beso Negro
Burn it Down
Beso Negro
Desde Alli
Beso Negro
Burn it Down
Beso Negro
Desde Alli