José Valentino Ruiz, who plays Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 30, 2018. Credit: c/o EMIT

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✔️ José Valentino Ruiz w/O Som Do Jazz José Valentino Ruiz may call Tampa home, but the composer with a doctorate in music philosophy has also seen his band nominated for a Latin Grammy award in the Best Latin Jazz Album category. The flutist may be one of the world’s 10 best on the instrument, also plays electric bass and sax, and has collaborated with artists like Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera and Hubert Laws, to name a few. He arrives from Tennessee where he is currently teaching music production and will join Bay area ensemble O Som Do Jazz at Palladium’s Side Door Cabaret in bringing the spirit of ‘60s Brazilian music alive. (Side Door Cabaret at the Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO

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This article appears in Oct 25 – Nov 1, 2018.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...