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.

On Wednesday, July 22, 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

 

Sones de las Dos Orillas

Melissa Cruz: Percussion and Dance

Jesse Torre: Flamenco Guitar

Carlos Caminos: Flamenco Guitar

 

Featuring Bay Area Flamenco icon, percussionist and dancer Melissa Cruz, and Flamenco Guitarists Jesse Torre and Carlos Caminos, Sones de las Dos Orillas is a repertoire that traces the historical and ongoing musical exchange between Spain and the Americas. It begins with flamenco’s own eastern roots, the Toques de Levante, acknowledging the Middle Eastern and North African modal influences embedded in Spanish music from centuries of contact across the Mediterranean. From there, the repertoire moves across the Atlantic to explore the vibrant musical traditions of Latin America, tracing how Spanish forms took root and transformed in the Americas. At the heart of the program are the pieces that embody the exchange itself, the hybrid and shared forms like Guajira and Rumba, born from centuries of back-and-forth movement between the two shores, as well as Fandango and Joropo, which reveal a shared ancestry, two branches of the same tree rather than separate traditions. Together these pieces form a musical portrait of Sones de las Dos Orillas, or Songs of Both Shores, celebrating both the ancient origins and the living, ongoing conversation between Spain and the Americas.

 

Caminos Music – Sound Tracks – Live Performances

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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.

On Wednesday, July 15, 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

 

 “Modupue Wednesday”
Celebrating Javier Navarrette’s Birthday with Edgardo Cambon’s La Ti Do and Special Guests!

 

Edgardo Cambon- Percussion/ Vocal

Raul Navarrette- Trombone

David Pinto- Bass

Bob Crawford- Piano

With Special Guests!

Javier Navarrette curates shows with various artists from different cultures in the Bay Area, as well as presenting his own global music projects at “Modupue Wednesdays”

Modupue- Thank you

 

 

Musician Bios

 

Edgardo Cambón: congas, lead vocals

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1960, Edgardo began his musical journey at just nine years old. Charming his audiences on Uruguayan television with his enchanting tango performances, Cambón’s journey in music has spanned continents, leading him from the heart of South America to the Diverse cultural scenes of Europe and Africa and finally to a successful career in the United States staring in 1986

 

Raul Navarrette: Trombone

Originally from Fresno, California, Raul Navarrette started playing trombone at the age of 9, and has been working as a New York City musician for the last 25 years. He has shared the stage with a wide range of artists exploring an array of genres along with artists from around the world in a variety of musical settings, locally and nationally.

Having received his master’s degree at The Aaron Copeland School of Music, at City University of New York’s Queens College in Flushing, NY, Raul has also devoted part of his professional career to being an active participant in the educational field as teacher, private instructor, invited guest speaker for schools in classrooms for young and old students on both the west and east coasts of the USA.

Raul works in the areas of Classical music, jazz, salsa, Broadway/theatre/musicals recordings and as a solo artist and he chooses to utilize top quality equipment for his line of work. In virtually any field required, Raul Navarrette’s extensive background of performing arts programs and involvement as both student and teacher have given way to emboldening his perspective that the importance of arts and the humanities is the true meaning of what’s most important to the growth of the individual. Raul is currently working on a solo latin jazz project currently of his own compositions, he looks to feature musicians from both California and New York.

 

David Pinto: bass

David is a Peruvian native best-known for his work as music director, arranger, and bassist for Grammy-winner Susana Baca, Diva of Afro-Peruvian song. He was member of Peru Jazz, a group highly praised for their innovation and fusion of Peruvian roots and jazz.

He has performed at various international jazz and world music festivals, such as WOMAD in Nice, Paris, Glastonbury, and Montreal. He has toured internationally in theaters, including The Kennedy Center and The Hollywood Bowl, Theatre De La Ville (Paris), and Royal Festival Hall (London). David also leads and performs with his own group Syncopated Colors, as well as teaching at the Jazz School in Berkeley, California.

 

Bob Crawford: Piano

Bob Crawford was born in Long Beach California and raised in the Bay Area with his 12 brothers and sisters.  He started playing in bands with his saxophone playing twin brother during their college years.  After graduating, Bob gained experience in various Bay Area ensembles, playing jazz, funk, Latin and Brazilian music.  In 2001 he was offered the keyboard chair in Michael Franti’s band Spearhead.  Bob logged multiple tours throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and Japan.  Bob also recorded on several of Spearhead’s albums and appeared on a number of international TV programs with the band.  Also with Spearhead, Bob found himself performing with a who’s who of international stars (who had a habit of sitting in with the band), including Tre Anastasio, Chuck D, Ani DiFranco, Jack Johnson, Robert Randolph, Woody Harrleson, as well as members of Ozomatli, Zap Mama, and Galactic.

Bob took time off from extensive touring to spend time with his family, and to pursue his own musical vision.  Now residing in the East Bay, Bob continues to perform and record with a variety of artists.   He’s performed and /or recorded with  Pete Escovedo, John Santos, Sheila E., Taj Mahal, Ray Obeido, Fito Reinoso y su Ritmo y Armonia,  Mazacote, Los Angelitos, Wild Mango, Boca De Rio, Greg Errico (Sly and the Family Stone), Lee Oskar (War), Lenny Williams  and Mic Gillette (Tower of Power), Pedrito Calvo and Yeni Valdes(Los Van Van) Richard Bean (Malo), Jorge Santana, The New York Gypsy Allstars, as well as members of El Chicano, Santana, Tierra, Big Brother and the Holding Company,  and many more.

Bob has served as the musical director for the Latin Kings All Star band, which features members from Tower of Power, Malo, and The Whispers.  He has worked with the Alayo Dance Company and the Stagebridge Theatre Group.  He has also worked for two years with the San Francisco Symphony’s “Adventures in Music” program, bringing music to every public elementary school in San Francisco.   He teaches jazz ensembles and piano at Marin Country Day School and EPACenter in East Palo Alto.  Bob also leads his own piano trio, and is a founding member of the Latin jazz-funk band Machina Sol.

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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.