Charged Particles

Charged Particles (www.chargedparticles.com) is the Bay Area’s favorite funky Latin jazz trio.  They have toured Indonesia, England, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and Italy, and have performed in the U.S. at Birdland, Ronnie Scott’s, Blues Alley, Yoshi’s, the Dakota, the Kennedy Center, the Tri-C Jazz Festival, the Trenton Jazz Festival, the Musical Instrument Museum, the Columbus Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, the San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival, the Eureka Springs Jazz Festival, and in hundreds of other festivals, clubs, and theaters over their 30 years of music-making, as well as live on television and radio.  In September, the band toured the UK with superstar trumpeter Randy Brecker, playing the acoustic jazz compositions of his late brother, Michael Brecker.

Downbeat Magazine called the band “something special” and “inventive, invigorating, mesmerizing, beautiful, virtuosic, and lyrical.”  Their newest CD of was named one of the best CDs of 2021 in Jazzwise Magazine, JazzTimes Magazine, the Jazz Journalists Association Poll, the 16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll, and more.  Famed jazz critic Bill Milkowski said the recording is “staggering in its authenticity.”  And Downbeat said it offers “exciting, satisfying stuff”.   JazzTimes Magazine said the band offers  “an electrifying, push-the-limits performance style and is a tight and enormously talented trio”, and Jazz and Blues Report said: “Charged Particles is definitely dazzling.”