Charged Particles with Tod Dickow
Funky Latin Jazz
Lafayette Art & Wine Festival - Bank Stage
Sunday, September 21, 2025
11:00am-12:30pm
The Bay Area’s favorite quartet playing funky Latin jazz, Charged Particles is now in its 32nd year of making music. The band features four of the country's musical virtuosos. Murray Low is a keyboard wizard with dazzling Latin-jazz technique and imaginative improvisational skills. Doug Pohorski is a brilliant and innovative bass player. Along with fiery drummer Jon Krosnick and special guest, saxophone extraordinaire Tod Dickow, these players are making some of the most electrifying music in the country today.
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 says “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 Yoshi’s, Ronnie Scott’s, Birdland, Blues Alley, Vibrato, the Dakota, the Musical Instrument Museum, the Columbus Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, the San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival, the Eureka Springs Jazz Festival, SF Jazz, the Rochester Jazz Festival, 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.
Watching the group perform, it’s obvious that they have fun playing together and admire each other’s musical instincts, as will you!
Charged Particles dazzle.
An electrifying, push-the-limits performance style... A tight and enormously talented trio.
Fresh, energized jazz that showcases the trio's individual technical mastery.
What dynamic music it is! A superb example of musical artistry at its best.
When I listen to this band, they bring me back to the 70’s. I was digging jazz, and jazz was moving away from swing and bebop into improvisation, which I was finding more interesting. Weather Report, Oregon, Chick Corea, and Stanley Clark were some of the sounds I was finding. Hop on! Charged Particles will take you there, too!