CasCal Restaurant of Mountain View welcomes special guest, Flamenco Jazz Guitarist, James Robinson for a truly unique experience. Driving James Robinson is a diversity of thought and diversity in music. Diversity, love, and understanding in the world is a musical quest for James Robinson. "To understand why people love a kind of music is to be well on ones way to understanding each other." As founder of Favored Nations, the legendary Steve Vai has built a thriving creative home for guitar legends dedicated to fostering the art of their axe, most recently adding James Robinson to its ever diversifying roster. With the release of James Robinson's stylistically expansive label debut Colours, Favored Nations shows a deep commitment to the future of the instrument.One listen to the Bay Area native's virtuosity, emotionally compelling melodies and rhythmically eclectic grooves which range from Latin, Funk, Middle Eastern and straightforward jazz will no doubt inspire guitar fans the world over to echo Larry Carlton's sentiments upon hearing Robinson's music for the first time: "James is an extraordinary talent that deserves to be heard". Robinson, who counts Carlton as one of his boyhood guitar idols, met Vai through Carlton, and Vai was immediately hooked: "He's phenomenal!"

Festival Tickets: Mon-Thurs: Free Fri Main Music Festival: $15-$20 *NEW STIMULUS PRICE! --- "Brimming with enthusiasm, energy, and dynamic expression, the James Robinson Trio performs with a mastery that far exceeds what one expects from an acoustic Trio. Each plays with individual aplomb and as a group, sound like an eccentric, eclectic band of gypsies. With exquisite tonal quality and extreme technical virtuosity, the threesome shine in a program that includes a managerie of flamenco, rock, brazilian classical, cuban, funk, Middle Eastern and not-so-straight forward jazz, .

The De Anza College "Daddios" Evening Jazz Ensembles are in the forefront of preserving and presenting contemporary Big Band Jazz to the south San Francisco Bay Area community. The Daddios have come to be generally regarded as among the finest evening rehearsal jazz bands in Northern California, and present regular concerts on campus, at jazz events and at various venues in the bay area.

Joining the Latin Jazz Ensemble will be noted Bay Area percussionist, educator and recording artist Willie Garza, and guest band, the Afro-Latin percussion ensemble "Mozambitambo."