Johnny Blas Orchestra

This orchestra was recently playing at Carnivale and I was lucky enough to hear them.
They are part of a greater organization that can be found on Unilocal called, «Latin Street Dancing Inc», but due to their excellent performance I felt they should be singled out.
The tunes were great… folks were dancing in the middle of the bar and everyone was having a good time with the music… even if they were not dancing.
Johnny is unique in the fact he is one of the few conga players on the West Coast who leads his own band. The music is like Latin Jazz, but his work has been also described as funky world beat fusing Latin, Funk and Jazz together.
A great band you should hear if you get the chance… His band has a few more shows in the Chicago area over the next couple of months… check them out as you won’t regret it.