| Bill Caballero |
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Texas native Bill Caballero has been playing trumpet since sixth grade -- when his father refused to give him permission to play trombone and insisted he play trumpet as his grandfather had. Caballero joined an R&B band when he was in eighth grade and played in it through the 10th grade, when “it was kind of cool playing in nightclubs at the age of 14.” After high school, he auditioned for and was accepted by the Army-Navy-Marine School of Music in Norfolk Va. Caballero then attended the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, where he fell in love with jazz. He formed a couple of bands in Texas, but in 1989, because Latin jazz was “pretty foreign” there, he headed for San Francisco. He stopped in San Diego on the way, but an earthquake shook the Bay Area, so he stayed here. Since then, Caballero has taught in the local school system as brass coach, assistant band director, and band director. He has performed in musicals, including “Songs of Singapore,” “Five Guys Named Moe,” “A Tribute to Harry Warren,” “Dream Girls,” and “A Chorus Line.” The trumpet player, who has recorded three cd’s, has played with various local bands and started his Mambo Orchestra, The Caballero-Verde Quintet, and most recently, the Quinteto Caballero. Orquesta Bi-Nacional de Mambo is an 18-piece band dedicated to performing and promoting Latin big band music from the 1950's to the present. The band's dazzling performances celebrate a wide range of musical styles including mambo, bolero, cha cha cha, salsa, and other forms of Latin Jazz. Led by versatile trumpeter Bill Caballero, this group features some of the best cross-cultural musicians from the San Diego-Tijuana border region. The band's sizzling live shows have gained them a devoted following and reputation for passion and authenticity. Since its inception in 2000, the band has performed for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the San Diego Museum of Art, the California Center for the Performing Arts in Escondido, the Adams Avenue Street Fair, the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Tijuana's Casa de la Cultura, Dizzy's, and the KSDS Jazz Live radio program. |
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| Christopher Buckley |
Christopher Buckley’s 17th book of poetry, Rolling the Bones, won the 2009 Tampa Review Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Tampa Press in April 2010. Other recent books are Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007, published by Tupelo Press; Flying Backbone: The Georgia O’Keeffe Poems, 2008, Blue Light Press; And The Sea, (2006), The Sheep Meadow Press. Buckley was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry for 2007-2008 and was awarded the James Dickey Prize for 2008 from Five Points Magazine. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia; four Pushcart Prizes; two awards from the Poetry Society of America; and NEA grants in poetry for 2001 and 1984. Other awards include the City Works National Writers Award for 2006 from San Diego City College and the Kenneth O. Hansen and Vi Gale poetry awards from HUBBUB magazine. His first book of creative nonfiction, Cruising State: Growing up in Southern California was published in 1994. A second collection, Sleep Walk, was published by Eastern Washington University Press, 2006. In 2001, he published Appreciations: Selected Reviews, Views, & Interviews—1975-2000, Mille Grazie Press. With Gary Young, Buckley is the editor of and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place (Hey Day Books 1999). With David Oliveira and M.L. Williams, he is editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (The Round House Press, 2001). For the University of Michigan Press’ Under Discussion series, he edited The Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing, 1991. Recently he edited the poetry anthologies, Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems & Poetics from California (with Gary Young) Alcatraz Editions, 2008; Homage to Vallejo, Greenhouse Review Press, 2006; and, with Alexander Long, he edited A Condition Of The Spirit: The Life And Work Of Larry Levis, Eastern Washington University Press, 2004. Due in January 2011 is Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees, edited with Christopher Howell from The Backwaters Press. Over the last 30 years his poetry has appeared in such literary journals as APR, Poetry, Field, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Five Points, & New Letters among others. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Santa Monica Review, River City, Crazyhorse, The Florida Review, The Cimarron Review, and Denver Quarterly. |
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