Other Events

Master Classes

Free Admission

Friday August 10
At the Hilton
Santa Clara 1 conference room (second floor)
300 Almaden Boulevard, San Jose

2:00 WAYNE BERGERON-Trumpet Master Class Clinic

Saturday August 11
At the Improv
62 South Second Street, San Jose (across from the Latin stage)

10:30 YOSHI KATO- Introduction to the Jazz Festival
11:00 AARON LINGTON-Jazz Appreciation
12:00 DAVID FRIESEN-Bass, Music Studies Series
1:00 RAY VEGA-Trumpet, Latin Jazz
2:00 CHARLES MCPHERSON-Alto Saxophone


Share your festival videos and pictures and win great prizes.

Go to the Comcast booth (at the Main Stage) to
download your pictures and videos, or from your mobile
phone, email them to musetube@sanjosejazz.org
Your images will get out to the web (KNTV-NBC 11
www.nbc11.com), and to the festival grounds.
Do you have pictures from previous festivals? If you do,
don’t wait, email them now!

Be sure to include your name and email address so we
can give you credit and enter you in the drawing for prizes.
Sending us content gives San Jose Jazz the right to use it at its discretion.


Visual Art and Collaborative Installations
Pacific Art Collective (PAC) will present live visual
collaborative art installations at the festival featuring
international artists. Artists will be painting live murals on
several man-made wall structures placed throughout the
festival. At the Jazz Beyond Stage, PAC will also present
live video art broadcasts featuring VJ’s dynamically mixing
computer motion graphics with live feeds of performing
artists and the audiences participation.

Friday & Saturday, from 8pm to midnight, at the
Jazz Beyond Stage : VJs and live mural painting.
Saturday and Sunday, from noon to 8pm : live mural
painting and art sales at all outdoor stages.
PAC is North America’s largest art collective and
is recognized for catapulting a collaborative arts
movement. www.pacificartcollective.com


Vintage Jazz Records Sale and Live Music
Anno Domini Gallery presents a special Jazz Festival
edition “Dig Dug” on Friday, August 10th at 8pm.
Dig Dug is a long-running music appreciation event
at Anno Domini dedicated to the preservation of
vinyl culture. There will be a wide array of vintage
jazz records on sale, as well as live musicians, and
musical entertainment by the New Medina DJs, a local
collective of jazz aficionados.

Anno Domini Gallery
Friday 10 August at 8pm, free
366 S. First Street, San Jose
408.271.5155 www.galleryAD.com


Special screening at Camera 12 Cinemas
“El Cantante” (Rated R)
Director, Leon Ichaso, Cast, Jennifer Lopez, Marc
Anthony, Federico Castelluccio, Romi Dias, and
Vincent Laresca

Synopsis : A biopic on Hector Lavoe, who was one of
the biggest Spanish-language singers in the 1970s,
but personal tragedy and a heroin addiction left him
penniless and dying of complications from AIDS.
Known as salsa’s bad boy, he had a crystal-clear voice
and an incomparable talent for improvisation.
Friday 10 August and Saturday 11 August at 10pm
Camera 12 Cinemas, 201 S. Second St., San Jose
408.998.3300

Discounted rate of only $5.00 when you show your
Jazz Festival wristband


Jazz Mass
At the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph
Saturday at 4:30
Sunday at 8:30 and 11:30
More info www.stjosephcathedral.org


 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

• 650 Connection
• Aaron Lington Quintet
• Angie Stone
• Airmen of Note
• Anthony Blea Y Su Charanga
• Barbara Dennerlein
• Benny Velarde y Super Combo
• Blues Guitar Extravaganza Featuring Rene Solis and Kenny Neal
• Blues Caravan 2007 Blues Guitar Women with Deborah Coleman, Sue Foley and Roxanne Potvin
• Bobby Shew and Pete Yellin Quintet
• Brass Mafia
• Candela
• Carlos Oliviera and Friends
• CEO Jam Session
• Charlie Musselwhite
• Charles McPherson feat. Gilbert Castellanos, Larry Vukovich, Jeff Chambers and Chuck McPherson
• Chuchito Valdes Latin Jazz Band
• Connie Evingson
• David Friesen Trio w/ John Gross and Gregg Goebel
• The David "Fathead" Newman Septet presents "I Remember Brother Ray"
• Diem Jones presents Equanimity
• Denise Donatelli
• Eddie Gale All Stars Band feat. Prince LaSha, Kidd Jordan, Valerie Mih, William Parker, Alvin Fielder and Patricia Nicholson
• Festival Jam Session
• Fito Reinoso con su Ritmo y Armonia
• Folsom High School Big Band
• Full Spectrum Jazz feat. Wayne Bergeron
• Gerald Albright
• Headhunters with Geri Allen, Lenny White and Nicholas Payton
• Ileana Santamaria Band
• Jackie Ryan w/ Peter Barshay, Frank Martin, and Dezon Claiborne
• Jarret Cherner Trio
• JC Smith Band
• JC Smith presents the Oakland All-Stars
• Jessica Johnson
• Joe Ferrari Big Bang Swing Dance Party
• John Calloway
• John Jorgenson Quintet
• John Santos Quintet
• John Worley and Worlview 7.0
• Karabali
• Kathleen Grace Band
• Kat Parra
• Ladies of Jazz feat. Gaea Schell, Pamela Rose, Joyce Randolph, Kris Strom, Kelly Fasman, Ruth Davies
• La Familia y Su Son
• Larry Dunlap and Bobbie Norris
• Latin Jazz All Stars in a Tribute to HIlton Ruiz with Ray Vega, Pete Escovedo, Juan Escovedo, Jimmy Bosch,Yunior Cabrera and Arturo O'Farrill
• Lee Ritenour and Friends featuring Alex Acuna, Patrice Rushen and Brian Bromberg
• Leela James
• Les Yeux Noirs
• Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
• Mazacote
• Mighty Mo Rodgers
• Miguel Migs presents PETALPUSHER Live
• Monica Marquis
• Ms.
Taylor P Collins
• NYPD Big Band
• Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion
• Orquesta d'Soul
• Pellejo Seco
• Rad feat. Eric Leeds, Ray Obiedo, Billy Johnson and Marc van Wageningen
• Ray Obiedo and the Urban Latin Jazz Project
• RB Xpress
• Realistic Orchestra
• Red Holloway's United Alto Summit feat. Red Holloway, Frank Morgan, Charles McPherson and Greg Osby
• Ron E. Beck
• Ryan Shaw
• Sakai
• San Jose Jazz Youth Orchestra
• Sasha Dobson
• Shane Dwight

• Sony Holland
• Tony Lindsay
• Wayne Wallace and Rhythm and Rhyme

• West Valley Jazz Orchestra


Header image taken by: Walter Wagner