Posted: 06/22/2013 11:12:04 PM PDT
Updated: 06/22/2013 11:12:20 PM PDT
Inland Valley residents joined Southland fans of all ages and ethnic, cultural, religious and political persuasions to enjoy two days of stupendous music at the 35th annual Playboy Jazz Festival last weekend.
Pampered Chef consultant Susan Sanchez of Upland met Realtor Dolores Bueno of Chino and Sandra Miranda of Moreno Valley, a medical support staffer at Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, at Playboy Jazz Festival in 2004. With master percussionist Poncho Sanchez and saxophonist James Carter doing a salute to John Coltrane and Lee Ritenour scheduled to appear with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, the jazz buddies thought it was time to return.
The friendships of retired Palomares Middle School teacher James Benson of Claremont and retired Hughes Missile Systems Division chief scientist Odell Graham, and of Karen and Joe Castillo of Lomita, Gene Tanaka of El Segundo and Rita Aquin of Santa Monica are rooted in jazz.
Benson and Graham met at Playboy through friend and television writer Don Stewart. Their attendance this year was bittersweet because of Stewart's recent death, but they eased their grief reflecting on the straight-ahead, Latin and bebop musical memories they'd shared with Stewart as jazz aficionados.
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