Jazz From The East Bay
DJ Rafiki Webster played three songs from our album on his show All Mixed Up. Here’s a quote from Rafiki…
Brother John Vargas, I want to thank you for sending me your cd. I truly enjoyed the smoothness of your mello jazz beats, it reminds me of being back in the Bay Area…
The “Bossa510” Album Release Party took place at Oasis Palace in Newark, 7-10PM. This show featured all 15 musicians from the “Bossa510” album project. We performed 10 original songs from the album. With a sold out event, the party was great fun! See Facebook promotion image.
DJ Chuy Varela played our song “Sundown In Pacifica” on this amazing Bay Area jazz station. Here’s a quote from Chuy…
A lot of great people doing some beautiful stuff. Definitely a band worth keeping an eye on…
DJ Vince Outlaw played our song “Asilomar” on his show Jazz In The Night.
We had a great time On-Air tonight at 89.3 KOHL FM. Our songs “Bossa510” & “Ocean Breeze” were featured on the show Lowriding With JJ.
Much love to JJ for playing 510JAZZ music. Great time. God is good
• “Bossa510” album release to iTunes and Amazon Music stores. Buy CD at the 4Play Records Music Shop.
• The Our Music site provides links to our stores, 16 song clips, song bios, band member photos, YouTube videos and more!
• Fremont’s Tri-City Voice publishes a full-page article on 510JAZZ and our “Bossa510” album release. Columnist Sara Giusti said summarized it like this….
“…”Bossa510” is ripe with lyrical tributes to places locals will recognize, such as Yoshi’s, Mountain Winery, the Bay Trail, Highway 1, and more. A delectable and unique mix of musical genres, from classic bossa nova to hip-hop and American jazz to R&B, “Bossa510″ takes listeners from the Tri-City and beyond to back home again…”.
See the full text of the article here.
Great interview with DJ Chill Statis, who played five songs from our debut album “Bossa510”. This studio interview featured John Vargas, D-Varg and Ravi Jayasinghe.