Who: Charged Particles
Jazz
The Bay Area funky Latin jazz quartet Charged Particles has been playing for more than 30 years, in Indonesia, the U.K., Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, the U.A.E., and across the U.S., at famed venues including Yoshi’s, Ronnie Scott’s, Birdland, Blues Alley, the Rochester International Jazz Fest, the Fillmore Jazz Festival, the Great Lake Jazz Festival, the Scarbrough Jazz Festival, the Columbus Jazz and Ribs Festival, the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, the San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival, the Eureka Springs Jazz Festival, and hundreds of others. Their latest CD was named among the best 2021 jazz releases in JazzTimes Magazine, Jazzwise Magazine, the San Jose Mercury News, the Jazz Journalists Association, the 16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll, Glide Magazine, Nippertown Magazine, and more publications. In a concert review, Downbeat Magazine called the band “something special” and “inventive, invigorating, mesmerizing, beautiful, and virtuosic.” Nippertown Magazine said the band’s performance at the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival was “thrilling” and “the peak set of the day”. The Oxford Times said their performance at the Spin Jazz Club was “brilliant”.