On September 29th, 2009 Concord Picante will release Psychedelic Blues, Ponchos Sanchez’s new album and twenty-fourth recording on Concord Records. The features a more Latin jazz influenced sound honoring the tradition of Sanchez’s earlier Concord recordings.

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The Album

Psychedelic Blues is Poncho Sanchez’s tribute to the traditional Latin jazz roots and musical memories of his childhood. The album opens with the simmering “Cantaloupe Island,” a Herbie Hancock composition recast in a Latin jazz groove. The title track is a fast-moving mambo, originally written by Sonny Henry and arranged here by Francisco Torres.

Sanchez enlisted guitarist and regular member of the L.A.-based Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band Andrew Synowiec, to change up the sound on a few tracks. Along with Synowiec is the same lineup that has backed Sanchez on several records and countless live shows: keyboardist/arranger David Torres; saxophonist Javier Vergara; trumpeter flugelhornist Ron Blake; trombonist/arranger Francisco Torres; bassist/vocalist Tony Banda; timbalero Geroge Ortiz; and percussionist/vocalist Joey Do Leon.

Whether it’s sals, straight-ahead jazz, Latin jazz, or even elements of soul and blues, the mesmerizing array of sounds and colors from Poncho Sanchez’s youth have telegraphed across the decades and continue to inofrm his creative sensibilities to this day.

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