by JOSEPH MILLER, Wednesday, December 19, 2012
It’s mid December, and there is a peculiar migration occurring overhead. You might hear — if you listen carefully — not the honks of Canada geese, but pentatonic scales and ii V7 cadences, high-hat patter, and upright bass thump. Yes, it is time for the winter return of those illustrious jazz birds, that collegiate clique of high fliers that hail from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, N.Y.C.’s New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, MIT, University of North Texas (UNT),UCLA, and Biola University. Here they will undoubtedly enjoy family reunions and reprieves from the books, but they will also flock with like-feathered friends from UCSB, SBCC, and SBHS to produce what is promising to be an extraordinary year-end blowout for jazz lovers.
The second annual An Afternoon of Great Jazz, Song and Friendswill feature all-star alumni from all three area public high schools. Saxophonist Lito Hernandez and multi-instrumentalist Robert Harrell are the artistic directors of the event. Hernandez is a fourth-year student and Presidential Scholar at the prestigious Berklee College in Boston. Harrell, in his second year at Biola, plays nine instruments, including bass, brass, and woodwinds. Another SBHS alum, saxophonist and flutist Andrew Adams, a junior at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, is serving as event coordinator. Also on the bill will be pianist Peter Clark with songstress Nansie Chapman, as well as a current SBHS quintet.
All-Star personnel also include bassist Victor Murillo (Berklee), sax men Aaron Dutton (Regents jazz scholar,UNT) and Jared Yee (Berklee), trumpet wunderkind Harrison Swalley (Berklee), percussionist Matt Raphaelian (Berklee), trombonist Mariel Bildsen (New School for Jazz,N.Y.C.), and vocalist Savannah Meares (UCLA). Area musicians are SBHSstudents Brendan Smyth, Chet Stussy, Vito Di Novi, and Johnny Weger.
Read more: http://www.independent.com/news/2012/dec/19/santa-barbara-jazz-all-stars/
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