We’re less than six weeks away from the launch of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Lafayette Summer Music Workshop! If you’re serious about jazz, you’ll want to be there August 3-7. This weeklong music workshop for teens, youths and adults offers an intense immersion in the world of jazz. Learn from jazz luminaries such as [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 27, 2009
Ellen Rowe Bio
Award-winning pianist, composer, arranger … and mountain climber, Ellen Rowe bring an eclectic mix of interests to the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Rowe has composed, performed and recorded with the legendary Village Vanguard Orchestra, the BBC Jazz Orchestra, the U.S. Navy Commodores and the Berlin Radio [...]
June 27, 2009
Wayne Wallace Bio
Legendary trombonist, arranger and composer Wayne Wallace is one of those artists with a resume so long, one scarcely knows where to start. Born in San Francisco, trained at San Francisco State and La Escuela Nacional in Havana, Cuba, Wallace has taught jazz trombone, improvisation and composition at his alma mater as well as [...]
June 27, 2009
Matt Morrish Bio
Tenor saxophonist Matt Morrish is a longtime fixture on the Bay Area music scene. A Lafayette native, Morrish spent most of the 1990s in New Orleans, playing in clubs, aboard riverboats, in parades and casinos, and studying with jazz greats Ellis Marsalis and Ed Peterson. A chance meeting with Afro-Cuban jazz artist Juan [...]
June 27, 2009
Frank Martin Bio
Multi-platinum recording artist and pianist Frank Martin has performed with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to the San Francisco Symphony, Sting, Stevie Wonder and Elton John. And his jazz resume is equally lengthy and impressive, including gigs with Herbie Hancock, Flora Purim Joe Farrell and the Slide Hampton Big Band. In addition to performing, arranging [...]
