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Jake Cortez and the Recipe for Trouble

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Member Since: 6/11/2006
Band Website: jakecortez.com
Band Members: Lee Rodriguez Drums/Percussion/Edgar Figueroa Congas/Sammy Watts Bass/Rolando Salazar Sax/
Influences: Muddy Waters/Chick Corea/CharlieParker/Horacio"El Negro"Hernandez/Michel Camilo/Jimi Hendrix/Al Di Meola/ Eric Clapton/Jobim/Buena Vista Social Club/Stevie Ray Vaughan/ Paco De Lucia/Arturo Sandoval/Django/
Record Label: Pancho Pistolas Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Life

I have come to believe that I was floating aimless until I finally fell in love.  Dreams became goals that I had when I was young, not a care in the world.  Floating?  Sometimes, during...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:09:00 GMT

Santa Fe B-Day Show

I had a rather pleasant surprise at my show last night at Santa Fe Cantina.  The night started with "Autumn Leaves" straight ahead jazz and worked its way up to "Cuarto De Tula" with couples shak...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:07:00 GMT

16 DE SEPTIEMBRE

After an entire week of working the clubs, I did NOT want to go to this show.  Regardless, we put on some threads and headed out to Pan-Am University for a "16 De Septiembre" celebratio...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:22:00 GMT

SOUTH TEXAS GUITAR MAN

Been thirty long years in the makin/Been a long and lonely winding road You could say that I'm tired of the nightlife/But i was born to be a Rolling Stone Yeah they call me the Gypsy/South Texas Guita...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:08:00 GMT

Minnesota

I was just there!!  Just a few weeks ago.  And I saw it on the news after work, you know just flippin through channels and BAM!!  MINNESOTA BRIDGE COLLAPSE!!!  I DROVE over that br...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:44:00 GMT

Musical ventures

Last night was a good night out @ Santa Fe Steakhouse.  I've been playing there every Mon. & Tues. night for about a year now.  As I walked in, i noticed there was no sound system, , zi...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:40:00 GMT