On Wednesday, August 12, 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
Jamie Dubberly and the Dharma Latin Jazz Quintet
featuring:
Javier Cabanillas, congas
Omar Ledezma, timbales
Christian Tumalan, piano
Fred Randolph, bass
Jamie Dubberly, trombone
Evolving from the award-winning 9-piece Orquesta Dharma, this quintet brings a more intimate version of the band’s sound, featuring some of the Bay Area’s top Latin and jazz musicians. Rooted in West Coast Latin jazz and shaped by both the sounds of New York’s El Barrio and Afro-Cuban traditions, the music also draws on straight-ahead jazz and New Orleans brass band influences. The group features original compositions and inventive arrangements of Latin and jazz repertoire, with a focus on swing, interaction, and danceable grooves. The music of Dharma has captivated audiences throughout Northern California and internationally, with reach extending to salsa charts in New York and Cali, Colombia, and has also been featured on the nationally syndicated radio show Jazz After Hours, as well as Sirius/XM Radio The group is currently preparing to release its third full-length album, Con Alma Y Swing.
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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 the proceeds will go directly to our network of local musicians, each of whom has 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.