Well, it's been a quiet week in Lima. I've been recovering from last week's Jazz Festival and my amazing trip to Cusco and Machu Picchu the week before, and catching up on my World Basketball and Mexican League Baseball. I am posting two more videos from the Ndugu Chancler Afro-Peru Jazz Project. Both of these videos are from the same concert as the one I posted yesterday. The first video is just an amazing solo by Ndugu (watch Gabriel Alegria's reaction when he steps in). The first half of the second video is a Zapateo solo by Huevito Lobaton (I will be writing about Zapateo much more next week when I post videos from Huevito's master class at the festival) starting at about 1:35 Ndugu comes in for another great solo. These videos are the same quality as yesterday's. Sorry. But, still watch them to hear these guys play. I am trying to get more complete video of the concerts and they will be posted as soon as I do.

Lima Jazz Festival

Last week was the Lima Jazz Festival, a week long festival, with master classes during the day and concerts at night. Artists participating in the festival included Joe Magnerelli, whose work on "Time was Time" with the Ray Barretto "New Sextet was nominated for a grammy, John Thomas, who has played trumpet for Count Basie, Chick Corea, and for the Academy Award Winning film Ray, Jazz Vocalist, Kathleen Grace, who was a finalist in the 2007 International Songwriting Competition for her song "Songbird." The Festival also featured a brazilian jazz trio, a Colombian jazz group, and many more. The highlight of the festival was the Ndugu Chancler Jazz Peru Project, where three time grammy nominated drummer, producer, composer, and clinician, Ndugu Chancler, who has performed and recorded with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Patrice Rushen, Hubert Laws, The Crusaders, Frank Sinatra, Weather Report, Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Thelonious Monk, John Lee Hooker, and was the drummer for the Michael Jackson "thriller" album, teamed up with the Gabriel Alegria Sextet, and the Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra, to perform the songs from the Gabreil Alegria's, Saponegro Album, Nuevo Mundo. It was really a great show to see. I am posting video footage of a partial clip of the Ndugu Chancler Jazz Project performance at Satchmo's on Ave. La Paz in miraflores. The camera is a little shaky but its great audio.