The Jazz Blog

May 28, 2009 

By Andrew Gilbert, for the Mercury News

"Like many young guitarists, Hristo Vitchev nursed rock star dreams, but on his winding musical journey he found himself seduced by jazz's enigmatic harmonies and crystalline textures.

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JAZZ HERITAGE CENTER TO UNVEIL GROUNDBREAKING EXHIBIT
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JAM SESSIONS: AMERICA'S JAZZ AMBASSADORS EMBRACE THE WORLD
MAKES ONLY WEST COAST SHOWING
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Performances by the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, from the University of Pacific in Stockton, panels and celebration to kick off exhibit on May 17
Title: Jazz Ambassadors Up Close!

 

Where: The Jazz Heritage Center's Lush Life Gallery, at 1320 Fillmore

  This first year event will serve as a spring board to rejuvenate the live music scene in Downtown San Jose.  Left Coast Live will flow through San Jose's cafes, restaurants, bars and galleries this spring, has grown to include over 80 bands and nearly 40 venues in and around the city's downtown core.

San Jose Jazz is one of the sponsors of the event and you can hear some great jazz and blues

VOCALIST JENNIFER BARNES TO HEADLINE 28TH ANNUAL PATNOE JAZZ FESTIVAL

De Anza College's 28th Annual Herb Patnoe Memorial Jazz Festival will feature one of the rising young stars on the jazz horizon, vocalist Jennifer Barnes. The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 15 at De Anza College's brand new Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd. in

The Full Spectrum Jazz Big Band will be providing a free concert this coming Thursday, May 07th, 2009.

We'll be serving up contemporary & Latin infused charts as well as some traditional works. We'll also have Duane Lawrence joining us for some vocal arrangements.

Come on down and enjoy the concert!

Thursday, May 07th, 2009.
7:30 - 10:00 PM

Los Gatos Lodge
50 Los Gatos/Saratoga Road
Los Gatos, CA 95032

The final West Valley College jazz concert of the school year, featuring the WVC Jazz Band, Gus Kambeitz director, performing works by Don Ellis, Sammy Nestico, Monk and more!

WVC JAZZ Choir, Robert Cornejo, director Zawinul, Gershwin and more

Saturday, May 9th
WVC Theater - 8pm
$10

As always there are sure to be some surprises and some excellent music to be heard!

for information - call 741-2460

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Ramon Johnson, Director, San Jose Blues Week
Tel: (408) 275-6524
Fax: (408) 924-4574
email: ramonjohnson@yahoo.com
cheframon@ksjs.org
www.ksjs.org
www.fountainbluesfestival.com

 

The Derek Truck Bands and Tommy Castro with Chris Cain Rock San Jose Blues Week

Prodigal Son John Wedemeyer Returns for Chef Ramon's Talking Blues

 

San Jose, Ca-Monday, May 4th

When Charlie Parker should have been playing the Say When Club, he was hanging out at the Black Hawk jamming as were Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie.  The stories the walls of the Black Hawk
could tell: especially the one about the launch of Johnny Mathis, San Francisco's home town boy who made very good.  To celebrate this incredibly rich and storied jazz history, the

The Stanford Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Fred Berry, will present a concert with guest artist, Jon Faddis, on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at 8pm in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the Stanford campus. Jon Faddis, world class trumpet artist, was born in Oakland, CA, and is a protégé of Dizzy Gillespie.
Music to be performed will include arrangements from the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra library as