A ridiculously early gig at a rummage sale in a downtown Oceanside parking lot led to the formation of a jazz combo that has become a pillar of the coastal North County music scene: the Soto Six.
About a half-dozen years ago, the organizer of a rummage sale had asked then 18-year-old Dylan Soto to get a band together to play the 7am event. Soto called drummer Joannah Sy, whom he had just met at a jam session. She agreed to play, as did veteran pianist Tim Luey, whom Soto knew from playing in a Palomar College band while he was still in high school.
“It was the strangest thing ever,” said the Oceanside resident of the parking lot appearance. “But everybody had so much fun, I just realized in that moment, ‘There’s something here.’…