Saturday featured:

Ledisi & Xavier Lynn

The Giveton Gilen Quartet

Debo Ray & Kassa Overall of Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science

Miho Hazama and m_unit

Legendary Activist/Scholar Angela Davis with Terri Lyne Carrington as Ledisi performs

Following in the tradition of Public Enemy, Carrington used samples of speeches by Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier and others in the song No Justice (For Political Prisoners) from her latest album Waiting Game. 

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The final day of the Monterey Jazz Festival featured:

Lilliana de los Reyes, granddaughter of Walfredo de los Reyes

George Benson

The Immanuel Wilkins Quartet

The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra directed by Gerald Clayton

The Christian Sands Group, featuring  Skylar Tang (trumpet)

The Kandace Springs Group

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ACAS begins its 2018 tour tonight in South Orange, New Jersey. They'll be in the Bay Area at Freight & Salvage next Tuesday and Wednesday.

It will be essentially the same lineup as last year - here's my review of that tour.

Here's the full schedule.

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Harold López-Nussa will play in Berkeley at Freight & Salvage on Thursday October 28th with his brother Ruy López-Nussa on drums, Luques Curtis on bass, and Grégoire Maret on harmonica.

Here are some of Tom Ehrlich's photos from the last tour:

Harold López-Nussa

Harold & Ruy López-Nussa

Luques Curtis

Here's the full tour:

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