Jazz guitarist Ray Obiedo is touring with rising Bay Area vocalist Chloe Jean, with several Northern California stops on the way.
Jazz guitarist Ray Obiedo is playing a string of Bay Area concerts with “not strictly jazz” singer Chloé Jean.Let me explain. Unlike Woody Allen’s titular character, who materializes in the midst of one iconic historical moment after another in the 1983 mocumentary, Obiedo has a five-decade track record of turning up in the thick of creative ferment. Rather than fading into the background, the guitarist, composer, arranger and producer is often the straw stirring the drink.
Obiedo credits veteran Vallejo music impresario Jeff Trager with tipping him off about Jean, who he’d heard sitting in at open mic sessions at Sausalito’s No Name Bar. “I looked at some of her videos of duos and little gigs and I thought, ‘She sounds good!” he recalled. She also started working as a backup singer “and eventually became lead singer in wedding bands and top 40 groups,” she said. “I knew that wasn’t it for me either. I really enjoy writing my own songs.”
A diagnosis of breast cancer in 2016, which reoccurred in 2020, further sidelined her musical ambitions, until the connection with Obiedo last year “when I came back to music and got to do what I love,” she said. It’s no wonder Obiedo was drawn to Jean’s sound, as he’s always found inspiration in a wide spectrum of sounds and styles. The Richmond native has played Latin jazz with Pete Escovedo, soul jazz with Johnny “Hammond” Smith, and experimental post-bop with trombone great Julian Priester.
Covering so much musical ground has made it difficult for some critics to pin Obiedo down. But among the closest observers, his manifest contributions have been unavoidable.
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