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Aug 04
2010

San Jose Jazz Tune of the Month - by Dennis Broughton, Production Manager

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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!!

Jul 01
2010

San Jose Jazz Tune of the Month - Bruce Labadie, Festival Director

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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.

Jun 14
2010

San Jose Jazz Tune of the Month - Geoff Roach, Executive Director

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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.