Scenes
from Monday at the Panama Jazz Festival photos
by Eric Jackson
John Patitucci gives a wide-ranging bass seminar
The festivals' main inspiration and organizer, Danilo Pérez
The first
performance of this year's festival was by the
Puerto Rican and Panamanian band Grupo ARAD
Jahaziel Arrocha plays a number with Grupo ARAD
Monday
afternoon's headline act was the New England Conservatory Jazz
Ensemble. The school always sends a good band to Panama, but this
year's musicians were unusually good, and the day's outstanding
performance, both to this reporter's untrained ear and according to
audience reaction, was by Brad Barrett on the bass.
