The great saxophonist Pete Christlieb - who performed at the Festival on Sunday, August 15 - answers to our five questions and tells us some memories he lived during his musical career that he could never forget .

"San Jose Jazz (SJJ): Tell us who you are.

Dennis Broughton, San Jose Jazz Festival Production Manager, picked with pep and excitation a Tower of Power's - a.k.a TOP or T.P - track  for our San Jose Jazz Tune of the Month. It seems that T.P has never failed to entertain!

"During the 70's when I went to music school,we were all so into T.P... JAZZ MEETS FUNK-OAKLAND STYLE!!

Why should you go to the  21st AT&T San Jose Jazz Festival? What do you enjoy there? Would it be for the artists? Musical discoveries? Fun? Diversity? Dancing?  Here, four music lovers  decided to write a few words about it.

San Jose Jazz chooses an artist, five questions (same ones each times) and five answers. Here, the jazz saxophonist Pete Yellin who leads his own group, the Pete Yellin Quintet, agreed to play by the rules!

San Jose Jazz (SJJ): Tell us who you are.

Pete Yellin (PY): I'm Pete Yellin, a saxophonist from New-York now living in the east Bay for years. I play the alto sax mostly. I started playing at the age of 17, on clarinet. I was listening to jazz music and some of my friends were playing in their school bands so I thought it would be fun to try and learn an instrument. I was a basketball player in high school and received a scholarship to Denver University. At D.U., I went out and heard Art Pepper play the alto sax at a local club and decided to try to learn the sax. So when the 1st year was up, I got a sax and a teacher (with help from my musician dad) and picked it up pretty quickly. My teacher was on the staff at Juilliard Conservatory and he helped me get accepted there. I met many serious musicians there and they helped me get "gigs" and go to rehearsals and jam sessions.

Bruce Labadie, Festival Director, chose our tune of the month! He tells us about his music crush, Ruthie Foster, how he discovered her and how she is such a powerful perfomer.

 
              "I was travelling to Austin to attend the South By Southwest Music Festival in the late 1990's and stopped by to visit an agent, Nancy Fly. She gave me a cd of a solo artists she had just started representing, and after listening to her I grew to like what I heard.

Geoff Roach, San Jose Jazz Executive Director,  picks our tune of the month! He presents the track, explains why he chose it and why, in a general way, it represents the San Jose Jazz Festival.

May 27-August 22, 2010
1320/1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco

The Jazz Heritage Center (JHC), San Francisco's only permanent complex dedicated to jazz art and jazz history, is pleased to host an exhibit of the fine art work of Michael Rios. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 27 from 6:30-9 pm with the artist.

Michael V. Rios is a native of Oakland, California and graduate of the San Francisco Academy of Art College. Rios began as an illustrator for the San Francisco men's clothier, Roos Atkins and then became a partner in the commercial art and graphics studio, Winston, Rios & Brown.

Come have a good time and listen to 'Real Music' played with 'Real Instruments'.

For more information call, 408-515-7397

Concert and Lecture with John Santos at Stanford

Latin Jazz: Music of the Americas - Percussionist John Santos in Concert with the Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble

Monday, May 24, 2010, 8:00 PM
Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center, Stanford University

$10 general / $9 senior / $5 student / Free for Stanford students w/ SUID
Ticket Info: Door or call Stanford Ticket Office 650.725.2787
Website: http://latinjazz.stanford.edu

Jazz For Life Concert

A Great Way to Party with a Purpose

May 7^th 6:00pm - 9:00pm - Club Regent - Fairmont San Jose