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FREE PAJA MEMBER PARTY
SEPTEMBER 12, Sunday afternoon 3-5 PM

Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto

Come join us for great music and refreshments in the Art Center courtyard. Featured performers: David Miller, piano; Mario Suraci, bass; and Bill Velasco, drums.

Local keyboardist Miller has a rich knowledge of tunes from the American songbook, and this will be a very pleasurable afternoon of tasty jazz classics and standards.

Come and enjoy refreshments and mingling with like-minded jazz fans.  Tickets for the October 1 concert will be available.


AND MARK THIS DATE IN YOUR CALENDAR!
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1

PAJA’s BIG FALL CONCERT AT MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL

The Ella Fitzgerald tribute at this year’s Stanford Jazz Festival was certainly one of the highlights of the Festival, so much so that one critic wrote: “It’s a shame that this was a one-off concert. To my mind, this show should travel around and be offered in every corner of the country; I can’t think of any presentation that sells jazz and good music more than Stanford’s Homage to Ella does.”

We definitely agree, and PAJA has decided to reprise this concert this October 1, assembling most of the original principals. Our concert promoter Herb Wong has labeled the concert, “Remembering Ella Fitzgerald, America’s First Lady of Song.” The players:

This is a heavyweight collection of major jazz artists, and they’ll be joined by young singers Laila Smith and Holly Smolik, both of whom have been recognized as top young American jazz vocalists by Down Beat magazine and both performed at the original Stanford concert.

If you did not see the first concert, we urge you not to miss this one.  And if you did happen to catch it, you’ll definitely be happy to see it again as the basic presentation will be refined and expanded upon.  Be prepared for a memorable evening of the best of American jazz.

This concert is co-sponsored by The Music School of Sunnyvale and is conceived as a tribute to the late PAJA Jazz Buff editor Tony Harry.  A jazz group from the school will open the concert.

Kenny WashingtonBobbe Norris and Larry Dunlap

If you did not see the original concert, we advise you not to miss this one.  And if you did see it, you’ll definitely be happy to see it again as the basic presentation will be refined and expanded upon.  Be prepared for a memorable evening of the best of American jazz.

This concert is co-sponsored by The Music School of Sunnyvale and is conceived as a tribute to late PAJA Jazz Buff editor Tony Harry.

Mountain View High School is at 3535 Truman Ave in Mountain View. DIRECTIONS:  Foothill Expressway to Fremont Ave. in Los Altos. Go past Grant Rd. and take a left at Truman.  HS is on the right.    OR—Route 85, take Fremont Ave. exit, turn right onto West Fremont Ave., then right on Truman.

Tickets are $25 general, $20 PAJA members, $5 students and may be purchased by mail from Ed Fox, c/o PAJA Tickets, 294 Tennessee Lane, Palo Alto 94306, or at these outlets: Peninsula Music & Repair in Palo Alto, The Record Man in Redwood City, Vinyl Solution in San Mateo, or Groove Yard in Oakland.  (Tickets will also be available at the Sept. 12 member party.)


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