Miles Gonzalez blowing some serious Saturday night jazz to the delight of supporters of the John Burroughs High School Instrumental Music Assn. (Photo by David Laurell / September 20, 2014)
September 23, 2014 | 2:15 p.m.
Last week's heat spell was nothing more than a mere memory as the mix of cool jazz and hot salsa blended together and rendered a perfect late-summer evening as John Burroughs High School's Instrumental Music Assn. presented its annual "Salsa Under the Stars" fundraiser this past Saturday evening.
Staged in the school's quad, the event gave students, parents and supporters the opportunity to spread out their blankets and enjoy picnics or dinner provided by Tacos Maximo, brush up on their salsa skills by taking a dance lesson from master instructor Janette Valenzuela, who is world-renowned as an innovator and creator of L.A. style salsa, and then use those freshly learned or enhanced skills to dance to the music of the John Burroughs High School Jazz Ensemble.
Sponsored by former Burbank Mayor Marsha Ramos and the Arturo Sandoval Institute, the evening raised funds needed to keep the school's music program afloat.
Influenced early in his career by be-bop giants Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie, Cuban jazz great Arturo Sandoval played a vital role in shaping the face of both modern Latin music and mainstream jazz.
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