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WEDNESDAY, January 18

La Casona, 11 pm

Fusion Jam Session with Ibrahim Merel, Chale Icaza, Eduardo Crócamo and Ibrahim Oscar

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19

ATLAPA Convention Center, 7:30 pm - Sax & Folklore Night

Carlos Garnett Quintet; Toñito Vargas & Manuelito Corrales; Voces y Tambores de Panama (Ricaurte Villarreal, director); David Sánchez with Ben Street, Adam Cruz & Edsel Gómez

Club Sparkle, Hotel Miramar, 11 pm

Carlos Ubarte Quintet; Santi Debriano's Sounds of Ashé (University of Massachusetts)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

ATLAPA Convention Center, 7:30 pm - Guitar, Piano and Panamanian Jazz Night

Special Tribute to Mauricio Smith, with Luis Carlos Pérez, German Lawson, Juan Carlos De León, Marcus Gilkes, Omar Díaz, Mauricio Smith Jr. & Marcelino Thompson; Kurt Rosenwinkel with Mark Turner & Joseph Martin; Randy Weston with Alex Blake & Neil Clark

Club Sparkle, Hotel Miramar, 11 pm

Reggie Boyce & Jazz Effects; New England Conservatory Jazz Ensemble with invitees from the University of Panama

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21

Plaza de Catedral, Free Concert beginning at 1 PM

Santi Debriano's Sounds of Ashé; Patricia Elena Vlieg and her Quintet; New England Conservatory Jazz Ensemble; Kurt Rosenwinkel with Mark Turner & Joseph Martin; traditional Panamanian murga; Randy Weston with Alex Blake & Neil Clark; David Sánchez with Ben Street, Adam Cruz & Edsel Gómez; University of Panama Big Band (Vitín Paz, director); Danilo Pérez Jr. with Danilo Pérez Sr., Patricia Zárate, Ricaurte Villarreal, Milagros Blades and others

Club Sparkle, Hotel Miramar, 11 pm

Bush y su Nuevo Sonido

La Casona, 11 pm

Fusion jam session with Ernesto Schnack, Lloyd Sutherland & Aníbal De León

Jazz Seminars

Plus, and maybe most important, from January 16 through 20, a week of seminars at the University of Panama's School of Fine Arts in which world class jazz musicians will teach up-and-coming Panamanian artists

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Gaenor Speed's impressionists paintings of Panama
Third Annual Panama Jazz Festival is almost here
Argentine hero on Via Argentina
Gallery & Museum Guide