From junior high school on, Jeff Otto had a guitar in his hand and a gig to go to, everything from power trios to cover bar bands to coffee house solo gigs and “anything in between.” But when his first child was born, he stopped gigging and made up for it with a weekly jam session that began to yield songs. “We were doing some gypsy music, an improvisational mixture of stuff. It was really east meets west. Boris sounded east and Garcia west and so we chose the name Boris Garcia.”