On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 6-8:30pm “The Annex Sessions” music series will continue at The Annex (El Cerrito Natural Grocery Company Prepared Food Annex), 10387 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito with
Charged Particles with Tod Dickow
Tod Dickow – tenor saxophone
Greg Sankovich – piano
Doug Pohorski – bass
Jon Krosnick – drums
The Natural Grocery Company is pleased to welcome saxophonist Tod Dickow with the Bay Area trio Charged Particles to The Annex Sessions for an evening of funky Latin jazz.
DownBeat Magazine called the band “something special” and “inventive, invigorating, and mesmerizing.” Jazz Times magazine said they’re “enormously talented”. Nippertown Magazine said the band’s performance at the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival was “thrilling” and “the peak set of the day”. The Oxford Times said their performance was “brilliant”. Jazz and Blues Report said: “Charged Particles is definitely dazzling.” Jazz Podium said they are “a tight unit that keeps the band sound exciting and the intensity high.” L.A. Jazz Scene said they offer “exciting music” that JazzThing magazine said “sizzles and pulsates.”
The band has toured in Indonesia, Canada, England, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden, in addition to playing about 170 concerts each year all over the U.S. They have appeared in such famed venues as Vibrato, the Baked Potato, Yoshi’s, Ronnie Scott’s, Birdland, Blues Alley, the Dakota, the Musical Instrument Museum, the Rochester Jazz Festival, the Columbus Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, the San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival, the Eureka Springs Jazz Festival, SF Jazz, and hundreds of others.
Their 2021 CD “Live at the Baked Potato!” was included on “Best of the Year” lists in JazzTimes Magazine, Jazzwise Magazine, All About Jazz, the Mercury News, Glide Magazine, the Jazz Journalists Association Poll, and the Jazz Critics Poll.
Dickow is “one of the best saxophonists in the world” according to Jazz Life Magazine, and his playing has been recognized by outstanding soloist awards at the Pacific Coast Jazz Festival and from DownBeat Magazine. He has appeared with numerous celebrated artists, including Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Jackie & Roy, Harry Connick Jr, Steve Allen, Terry Gibbs, Frank Sinatra Jr., Dave Brubeck, and many more.
Watching the group perform, it’s obvious that they have fun playing together and admire each other’s musical instincts, as will you!
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The Natural Grocery Company is proud to present this series in partnership with SunJams and Javier Navarrette Music Productions.
SunJams is committed to funding children’s music education in underserved public elementary schools. Your donation will help support this ongoing program.
All of the proceeds will go directly to our network of local musicians, each of whom have been severely impacted by the lack of events during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whether you donate $10, $100, or $1000 – any amount helps and will allow us to keep bringing music to our community! As always, your donation to SunJams 501(c)3 may qualify as tax exempt.
Javier Navarrette Music Productions continues to bring live music to several venues around the Bay Area. Javier has been a professional musician and music educator in the Oakland Unified School District for the past 20 years. Over the past few years Navarrette has produced outdoors events that have proven instrumental in enabling musicians to deal with some of the fallout of the pandemic and shutdown that followed.
COVID RELATED SAFETY MEASURES
Please be safe. Feel free to wear a mask if you prefer.
TICKETS
Tickets are NOT required for this venue, you can simply come in, order food and beverages at the Annex counter and pay at the registers.