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San Francisco Bay Area based 18-piece big band featuring contemporary
and classic big band jazz, the Jazz Garden Big Band.
features. woodwind specialists.
Mary
Fettig,well known soloist and studio performer; Diablo
Valley College Jazz Studies Director Rory
Snyder;;Paul
Contos of the Monterey Jazz Festival; tenor virtuoso,
flautist Dann Zinn ; and Director
of Bands at De Anza College Bob Farrington.The
trumpet section features Marvin McFadden
of Huey Lewis and the News;.San
Jose based. Bill
Resch; and freelance artists Steve
Campos and Chuck MacKinnon.
On trombone, Dave Martell,
Jazz Director at James Logan .High.
School; San Jose based Dave Gregoric;;and
Steve Barnhill, Director
of Bands at Overfelt High School. The rhythm section features
on piano, San Jose veteran, Smith Dobson;
and Susan Muscarella,
Founder and Director of the Jazz School, Berkeley; and three of
the area's busiest freelance performers: Tim
Volpicella,
guitar; .Seward
McCain, bass; and Alan Hall,
drums. Dave Eshelman, Director
of Jazz Studies at California State University, .Hayward.
is leader, composer and trombonist.
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