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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

A Special Night at the California Theatre with ‘Mass in Blue', an Unusual Choral Jazz Composition

 

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."

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CD release party for Joe DeRose and Amici is on March 8th at Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland.

 

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.

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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.

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By Andrew Gilbert

for the Mercury News

Posted on www.mercurynews.com: 01/14/2010

WATCH VIDEO

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.

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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 Stage

250 East Java Drive

Sunnyvale, CA. 94089
(408) 734-1656

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.

Learn more about the camp

The Joe Ferrari Big Band and Combo has two exciting events this month, and they hope you'll be able to join them for some Holiday Fun and Cheer at one or both of the following:

December 21st - Open Rehearsal, 7:30 - 9:30. Get together with friends and family at the Sunnyvale Moose Family Center, 905 Kifer Rd., Sunnyvale, for two hours of big band music for your dancing and listening pleasure.

If you love modern jazz piano, then you simply cannot miss Piano Summit III: The Richness and Beauty of Modern Jazz Piano. Saturday, December 5th, the Palo Alto Jazz Alliance, Palo Alto Adult School, and KCSM FM 91.1 present an evening of enthralling music at Woodside Priory School Rothrock Performance Hall, located at 302 Portola Road in Portola Valley.

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