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Michelle Pollace Latin Jazz Quartet at Cafe Pink House
Courtesy of Michelle Pollace | Posted on September 27, 2016
Where
Cafe Pink House
14577 Big Basin Way
Saratoga, CA
Map
(408) 647-2273
When
Sun, October 16, 2016
6:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Whether performing her own compositions or her arrangements of standards, Bay Area native Michelle Pollace [poh-LAH-chi] honors the roots of jazz, Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban music while adding a new voice. Her performance highlights creative arrangements of jazz melodies set to alluring Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, as well as original compositions from Michelle’s critically acclaimed CD “New Beginning.” Michelle’s love of melody and affinity for well-structured compositions creates a classic sound, of which critic Mark Tucker of Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange writes, “I’m highly reminded of Ahmad Jamal’s ... and others’ old canons of work.” This melodic sensibility makes her music accessible to a wide audience....