BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.5// X-WR-CALNAME:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-CALDESC:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130520T044155CEST-1149a21dWM@www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco DTSTAMP:20130520T020555Z DESCRIPTION:The Monterey Jazz Festival®\; is pleased to announce that th eir national high school all-star big band\, the Next Generation Jazz Orch estra\, will make their debut at Yoshi&rsquo\;s San Francisco at 8:00pm on Monday\, July 25.\n\nCelebrating its 40th anniversary in 2011\, and selec ting the best and brightest high school jazz musicians in the country each year\, the current edition of the band features twenty-one high school mu sicians from California\, Florida\, Oregon\, New York\, New Jersey\, Penns ylvania\, and Toronto.\n\nThe 2011 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra also fea tures six Bay Area musicians\, including Calvin Barthel\, (trombone\, Alba ny High School\, Albany)\; Connor Anderson (baritone saxophone\, FAME Char ter School\, Concord)\; Kai Devitt-Lee (guitar\, Healdsburg High School\, Healdsburg)\; Robert Sheppard (tenor saxophone\, Amador Valley High School \, Pleasanton)\; Chris Palowitch (bass trombone\, Amador Valley High Schoo l\, Pleasanton)\; and Josh Shpak (trumpet\, Northgate High School\, Walnut Creek).\n\nCreated in 1971 as a part of the Monterey Jazz Festival's cont inuing commitment to jazz education and selected through an application pr ocess during the Next Generation Jazz Festival each spring\, former member s of the Orchestra include pianists Benny Green and Patrice Rushen\; bassi st Larry Grenadier\, drummer Chad Wackerman\, saxophonists Joshua Redman\, Donny McCaslin\, Eric Marienthal\, and Dave Koz\; trombonist Andy Martin\ , trumpeters Gilbert Castellanos and Ambrose Akinmusire\; and big band lea der Gordon Goodwin to name a few. In the past\, the band has been under th e leadership of Ladd McIntosh\, Don Schamber\, Benny Golson\, Bill Berry\, and many more. Now under the tutelage of Paul Contos\, the renowned saxop honist and flautist who serves as the director of the Orchestra\, the ense mble is dedicated to the study and performance of the most challenging big band literature available\, and has received worldwide acclaim.

Previous tour destinations for the Orchestra have included performances at festiva ls and venues across Canada\, Japan\, Australia\, and Europe. In recent ye ars\, the band has performed at the North Sea\, Umbria\, Toronto\, and Mon treal Jazz Festivals\; Jazz at Lincoln Center\, the Jazz Standard\, the Ke nnedy Center\, and many more.\n\nThe Yoshi&rsquo\;s San Francisco performa nce on July 25 is the second show of the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra&rs quo\;s 9-show\, 11-day 2011 summer tour of the West Coast. Other performan ces include stops in Carmel (Carmel Bach Festival with Joe Lovano\, July 2 4)\; Seattle (Jazz Alley\, July 26-27)\, Port Townsend\, Washington (Centr um Jazz Festival\, July 29-30)\; Monmouth\, Oregon (Mel Brown Jazz Camp\, July 31)\; San Diego (The Neurosciences Institute\, presented by the La Jo lla Athenaeum Music &\; Arts Library\, with special guest Gilbert Caste llanos\, August 1)\; and Los Angeles (Vitello&rsquo\;s Jazz Club\, August 2).\n\nThe Next Generation Jazz Orchestra will also make their traditional Sunday appearance at the 54th Monterey Jazz Festival on September 18\, 20 11\, with former band alumni and 2011 Artist-In-Residence Joshua Redman\, Benny Green and Donny McCaslin sitting as special guests.\nThe Monterey Ja zz Festival and the Berklee College of Music are also pleased to announce that Next Generation Jazz Orchestra member and trombonist\, Calvin Barthel \, from Albany High School in Albany\, California\, is the 2011 winner of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at the Berklee College of Music\, a major musi c education prize. The full-tuition scholarship is named in honor of the M onterey Jazz Festival&rsquo\;s late founder\, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons\, who began the festival in 1958.\n \;\nMajor support of the 2011 Next Gene ration Jazz Orchestra comes from the Hearst Foundations\, and from the Jos eph Drown Foundation.\nVisit the Monterey Jazz Festival's Website for Info on the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra! DTSTART:20110725T000000 DTEND:20110725T000000 DURATION:PT3H LOCATION:San Francisco SUMMARY:Monterey Jazz Festival's NEXT GENERATION JAZZ ORCHESTRA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR