This year marks the 50th anniversary of Santana's debut album and its star-making performance at the 1969 Woodstock festival, but guitarist and band leader Carlos Santana isn't resting on his laurels. Together, they blend elements of flamenco, rockabilly, pop, cumbia, jazz and more in snappy songs that are sung almost equally in English and Spanish. That group, now known as Jenny and the Mexicats, teams her with Spanish percussionist and singer David González Bernandos and two natives of Mexico, guitarist-singer Alfonso "Pantera" Acosta and Luis "Icho" Díaz on bass. In 2008, London singer and trumpeter Jenny Ball moved to Madrid where she joined a band called Los Pachucos y La Princesa. JENNY AND THE MEXICATS, WITH BANG DATA AND TESUQUE REVOLT The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., Middletown. If she can bring these songs alive even half as well on stage as she does on record, her Casbah show here should be one to remember. They range from Eartha Kitt, James Baldwin and Frida Kahlo to blues giant Muddy Waters and free-jazz pioneer Sun Ra. This Chicago poet-turned-singer first earned major attention for her collaborations with Chance the Rapper on "Sunday Candy" and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on "White Privilege II." On her striking new album, "Legacy! Legacy!", the 29-year-old Woods pays tribute to a dizzying array of artists who have inspired her. Carlos Santana (Maryanne Bilham) June JAMILA WOODS, WITH DUENDITA
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