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Pop goes San Diego: Irving Flores, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Common Sense, Claypool Gold
Live music, June 26-July 1, 2026
Common Sense will appear with Karl Denson's Tiny Universe on June 27 at The Sound
Summer Festival Concert: Latin Jazz Pianist Irving Flores
Upcoming Event
Summer Festival Concert: Latin Jazz Pianist Irving Flores
- Friday, June 26, 2026, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
- Coronado Library, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado
- Age Limit: All ages / Free
Enjoy an afternoon of live music in the Winn Room featuring pianist and composer Irving Flores, who brings his signature energy, rhythmic sophistication, and expressive musicianship to the Library’s Summer Festival Concert series. Flores was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where he began studying the organ at age six. A celebrated Latin jazz artist with more than four decades of experience, he’s known for his vibrant piano style, inventive arrangements, and dynamic performances that blend jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and Latin musical traditions. He has performed and collaborated with acclaimed musicians, including Poncho Sanchez, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Gilbert Castellanos, Peter Sprague, and Horacio “El Negro” Hernández, and his work as a composer and arranger has also included projects with the San Diego Symphony. His album Recuerdos, featuring original compositions, was nominated Best World Music Album at the 2010 San Diego Music Awards, and he took home a 2026 SDMA Best Jazz Album trophy for his most recent full-length Armando Mi Conga.
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Common Sense
Upcoming Event
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
- Saturday, June 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
- Sound, 2260 Jimmy Durante Boulevard, San Diego
- Age Limit: All ages
Saxophonist Karl Denson made his mark playing sax with Lenny Kravitz's band, and he and DJ Greyboy came to local prominence with The Greyboy Allstars. In 2008, the Karl Denson Trio won Best Jazz Album at the San Diego Music Awards, for their record Lunar Orbit. He was recruited in 2014 to play with the Rolling Stones' backing band in Australia and New Zealand. Early the following year, the Stones would launch a North American tour with Denson replacing their sax player Bobby Keys, who died the previous December, a touring gig Denson has maintained for over a decade since. His band Karl Denson's Tiny Universe bridges fusion jazz and R&B soul with progressive freak rock. This event features a celebration of reggae icon Jimmy Cliff with longtime Rolling Stones backing vocalist Bernard Fowler, who has been heard on every Stones album and tour since 1989. The bill also includes local reggae rockers Common Sense, who have been around since the early 2000s, with albums to their credit such as 2006’s Live at the Belly Up and multiple San Diego Music Awards for Best World Music. They released a new single in March for their track “Sound Order,” said to be from an upcoming full-length (their first since 2019).
Claypool Gold Cost-To-Coast Summer Tour
Upcoming Event
Claypool Gold Coast-To-Coast Summer Tour
- Wednesday, July 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
- Petco Park, 100 Park Boulevard, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
A lot of people can’t figure out the appeal of a band like Primus. They seem to take Spinal Tap’s all-bass joke and stretch it out across album after album, putting all the “wrong” instruments forward in the mix and burying the lead guitars (and often the melody) in a stream-of-consciousness soup of noise and gargled vocals that could easily be mistaken for sound effects. Singer-bassist Les Claypool makes no apologies for the fact that his singing sounds like someone played a Tom Waits record backward through an oscillating fan, but he always seems to find perfect collaborators, such as melodic Beatlespawn Sean Lennon. This East Village stop on the Claypool Gold Cost-To-Coast Summer Tour features Claypool taking the stage with Primus, as well as with the more psychedelically inclined Claypool Lennon Delirium, who have a new album called The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, a science fiction concept album about the battle between artificial intelligence and human values that features an original 24-page comic book. There will also be a set from the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, an experimental, jam-heavy project formed by Claypool during a Primus hiatus.
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Pop goes San Diego: Irving Flores, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Common Sense, Claypool Gold
Live music, June 26-July 1, 2026
Pop goes San Diego: Irving Flores, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Common Sense, Claypool Gold
Live music, June 26-July 1, 2026
Common Sense will appear with Karl Denson's Tiny Universe on June 27 at The Sound
Summer Festival Concert: Latin Jazz Pianist Irving Flores
Upcoming Event
Summer Festival Concert: Latin Jazz Pianist Irving Flores
- Friday, June 26, 2026, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
- Coronado Library, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado
- Age Limit: All ages / Free
Enjoy an afternoon of live music in the Winn Room featuring pianist and composer Irving Flores, who brings his signature energy, rhythmic sophistication, and expressive musicianship to the Library’s Summer Festival Concert series. Flores was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where he began studying the organ at age six. A celebrated Latin jazz artist with more than four decades of experience, he’s known for his vibrant piano style, inventive arrangements, and dynamic performances that blend jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and Latin musical traditions. He has performed and collaborated with acclaimed musicians, including Poncho Sanchez, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Gilbert Castellanos, Peter Sprague, and Horacio “El Negro” Hernández, and his work as a composer and arranger has also included projects with the San Diego Symphony. His album Recuerdos, featuring original compositions, was nominated Best World Music Album at the 2010 San Diego Music Awards, and he took home a 2026 SDMA Best Jazz Album trophy for his most recent full-length Armando Mi Conga.
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Common Sense
Upcoming Event
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
- Saturday, June 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
- Sound, 2260 Jimmy Durante Boulevard, San Diego
- Age Limit: All ages
Saxophonist Karl Denson made his mark playing sax with Lenny Kravitz's band, and he and DJ Greyboy came to local prominence with The Greyboy Allstars. In 2008, the Karl Denson Trio won Best Jazz Album at the San Diego Music Awards, for their record Lunar Orbit. He was recruited in 2014 to play with the Rolling Stones' backing band in Australia and New Zealand. Early the following year, the Stones would launch a North American tour with Denson replacing their sax player Bobby Keys, who died the previous December, a touring gig Denson has maintained for over a decade since. His band Karl Denson's Tiny Universe bridges fusion jazz and R&B soul with progressive freak rock. This event features a celebration of reggae icon Jimmy Cliff with longtime Rolling Stones backing vocalist Bernard Fowler, who has been heard on every Stones album and tour since 1989. The bill also includes local reggae rockers Common Sense, who have been around since the early 2000s, with albums to their credit such as 2006’s Live at the Belly Up and multiple San Diego Music Awards for Best World Music. They released a new single in March for their track “Sound Order,” said to be from an upcoming full-length (their first since 2019).
Claypool Gold Cost-To-Coast Summer Tour
Upcoming Event
Claypool Gold Coast-To-Coast Summer Tour
- Wednesday, July 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
- Petco Park, 100 Park Boulevard, San Diego
- Age Limit: Not available
A lot of people can’t figure out the appeal of a band like Primus. They seem to take Spinal Tap’s all-bass joke and stretch it out across album after album, putting all the “wrong” instruments forward in the mix and burying the lead guitars (and often the melody) in a stream-of-consciousness soup of noise and gargled vocals that could easily be mistaken for sound effects. Singer-bassist Les Claypool makes no apologies for the fact that his singing sounds like someone played a Tom Waits record backward through an oscillating fan, but he always seems to find perfect collaborators, such as melodic Beatlespawn Sean Lennon. This East Village stop on the Claypool Gold Cost-To-Coast Summer Tour features Claypool taking the stage with Primus, as well as with the more psychedelically inclined Claypool Lennon Delirium, who have a new album called The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, a science fiction concept album about the battle between artificial intelligence and human values that features an original 24-page comic book. There will also be a set from the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, an experimental, jam-heavy project formed by Claypool during a Primus hiatus.