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Mar 10
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A play about Fats Waller starts this Saturday at the Rep. There is a special discount on tickets available for San Jose Jazz members (become a member) - see details below.
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Event: John Worley and Oscar Pangilinan Quintet Jazz Jam featuring special guests Rick Vandivier and Wally Schnalle
What: Jam Session Start Time: March 9 at 7:30pm End Time: March 9 at 10:30pm Where: Senzala Restaurant Jam entry fee is a flat $5, for musicians sitting in. Friends, audience members, pets...$5 w/dinner....$10 w/o dinner. San Jose Jazz members, seniors and under 21 years old $2 off
SJSU Jazz Orchestra's first concert of the spring 2010 semester will be held on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:30pm in the San Jose State University School of Music Concert Hall. This concert will feature music by Alan Baylock, Bob Florence and many others, featuring new music by Aaron Lington. Parking is best in the 7th Street garage (corner of San Salvador and South 7th Street in
If you are up for something a little different, join Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale on March 19 for Will Todd's Mass in Blue, an upbeat setting of the Latin mass composed in the jazz and blues idioms. Written in 2003 for choir, soprano solo and jazz instrumentation, the work is a brilliant blend of driving rhythms, rich tonal colors, bluesy harmonies and soaring vocal lines. Critics have described the piece as "inventive" and "electrifying."
Blend vibrant jazz fusion, ECM harmonies, and soulful melodies and you get Joe De Rose and Amici. Joe De Rose, a native of the Bay Area, has been playing drums professionally for 21 years in various styles ranging from Jazz, Funk, Hip-Hop, Latin, Blues, Rock to Fusion.
TWO GREAT EVENTS FOR LATIN JAZZ IN SILICON VALLEY
Masters of Latin Jazz Concert - Ray Vega, John Calloway, and Jesus Diaz performing with the Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble Latin Jazz master trumpter Ray Vega, flautist John Calloway and percussionist Jesus Diaz perform together in a rare collaborative concert on Saturday, March 6, 7:30 PM at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
By Andrew Gilbert
for the Mercury News Posted on www.mercurynews.com: 01/14/2010
Senzala Restaurant and Stage expands music program by adding a bi-monthly jazz jam and an impressive Big Band line up every Wednesday Senzala Restaurant and Stage250 East Java Drive Sunnyvale, CA. 94089 www.senzalarestaurant.com In addition to its already impressive Thursday through Saturday music line-up, Senzala Restaurant and Stage is adding an all ages jazz jam every 2nd
Ubatuba Brazil Camp 2010 is a week of music master classes on the sands of Ubatuba, Brazil. Created by the founders of California Brazil Camp, Dennis Broughton and Mestre Marcelo Pereira, this week-long event brings together master musicians ranging from the legendary Hermeto Pascoal and Jovino Santos Neto to percussion master Jorge Alabé.
San Jose Jazz winter series - 9 'special' Sunday shows at the Improv
When Geoff Roach began mulling over possibilities for this year's Winter Jazz Series in downtown San Jose, he found himself thinking about jazz clubs versus jazz concerts. Fans always enjoy heading to a club - Yoshi's in Oakland or San Francisco, the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, among others - to see a top band refining its repertoire and concept before moving on to the next club. |
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A Special Night at the California Theatre with ‘Mass in Blue', an Unusual Choral Jazz Composition
CD release party for Joe DeRose and Amici is on March 8th at Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland.
For jazz musicians the road to Europe isn't paved with gold, but since the 1960s flying across the Atlantic has became an essential rite of remuneration for American improvisers, who would often be hard-pressed to make ends meet relying solely on stateside gigs.