Evening jazz concert program inside (see page 3) Volume 22, Number 8 Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 November 16,1979 Guest soloists featured at evening jazz concert By STUART GORDON o f Jazz Educators. The Foothill Jazz Ensemble’s repetoire for the evening will The 4th Annual Foothill Invitational highlight some original Yasinitsky compo­ Jazz Festival on Saturday, Nov. 17, at sitions and arrangements. He has taught Foothill College will feature the outstand­ several music courses at Foothill, includ­ ing artistry of guest soloists Richie “ Alto ing Contemporary Music Styles (Music 7), Madness” Cole and Ashley “ Superbone” jazz arranging, jazz improvisation and the Alexander. jazz combos. Cole and Alexander will join the Foot­ This year the Jazz Ensemble has taken hill Fanfairs, the homegrown nationally- on a relatively new look, with many acclaimed vocal ensemble directed by Phil seasoned players from last year’s band Mattson, and the Foothill Jazz Ensemble having moved on to four-year colleges directed by Greg Yasinitsky for the and professional playing. Returning to 8 p.m. concert. add depth and experience to the band are Alto saxophonist Richie Cole, 31, trumpeters Chris Boissevain and Greg veteran of the Buddy Rich and Doc Kuljian, trombonists Dave Carico and Severinsen big bands, has led his own jazz Joe Finetti, alto saxophonist Steve Lund- combos fo r several years and recorded a gren, and Chris Pantages on guitar. number of critically acclaimed albums Phill Mattson’s Fanfairs have long under his own name, including his latest been regarded as one o f the premier vocal ensembles in America. Comprised of Guest soloist Ashley Alexander (left) and Foothill music release “ Keeper o f the Flame.” A direct 12 vocalists and a rhythm section, the instructor Terry Summa. descendant of the fiery style of straight­ ahead playing o f jazz greats Charlie Fanfairs repetoire runs the gamut of Jazz ensembles and choirs to Parker, Sonny S titt and Phil Woods, Cole vocal jazz literature from blues to gospel is a frequent visitor to the Bay Area to swing; from complex arrangements music scene, including recent gigs at the by Mattson and Gene Puerling (of the perform at Foothill Monterey Jazz Festival and San Fran­ H i-Lo’s and Singers Unlim ited), to cisco’s Keystone Korner. This is his classical vocal literature, to “ Super Sax” style virtuoso vocal material. The groups (excluding the Colleges second year as guest soloist at the Foot­ By W ILLIA M BURKE The Fanfairs plan to go into the and Universities) w ill be rated by selected hill Jazz Festival. studio in December to record their next judges who w ill give out awards fo r o ut­ Cole has also accompanied the Foot­ hill Fanfairs on tunes that are scheduled album "Fanfairs: A Tribute to Gene The 4th Annual Foothill College Invi­ standing individual performances. Awards to be released on that vocal group’s next Puerling.” The album will be devoted to tational Jazz Festival will take place this w ill be selected fo r each event. album in January. various selections arranged or com­ Saturday, Nov. 17. The festival will in­ The judges fo r the events w ill be Ashley Alexander, 42, is a nationally posed by that vocal artist. Orders for clude performances by 12 high school Ashley Alexander (Mt. San Antonio known trombonist, music educator, that album, which is slated fo r release and college jazz ensembles and 18 jazz College), DwightCannon (San Jose State), clinician, recording artist and jazz fesitval in early January, can be made in the choirs. Elliott Charnow (Chabot College), and adjudicator. A veteran o f the Stan lobby of the Foothill Theatre during The jazz choirs will perform in Room Dave Eshelman (San Jose C ity College) Kenton, Louis Bellson and Maynard the Nov. 17, 8 p.m. concert. A—80 (the chorale building). Perfor­ fo r the jazz ensembles, and Frank Ferguson big bands as well as philhar­ The Fanfairs recently finished en­ mances start at 8:30 a.m. and w ill include DeMiero (Edmunds Community College), monic orchestras, Ashley is now the gagements at San Francisco’s H yatt choirs from Los Altos, Los Gatos, Pitts­ Waldo King (Roosevelt High School), director o f Jazz Studies and Bands at Regency and Fairmont hotels and were burg, Kennedy, Del Norte, Cal Berkeley, Jack Kunz (Lake Washington^ High Mount San Antonio College in Texas. invited to sing with Tony Bennett next El Cerito, Await, American River, Folsom, School), and Kirby Shaw (College of He has been the featured guest soloist year during his Fairmont engagement. Placer, Sparks, Andrew H ill, Cordova, the Siskiyous) for the choirs. and adjudicator at all of the Foothill On Wednesday, No. 14, Fanfairs will College of Marin, Rio American, Sacra­ As an added attraction, the local group Invitational Jazz Festivals. be performing on channel 29’s live “ Jazz mento City and San Jose State. The day “ Solar Plexus” will present a free concert Greg Yasinitsky is directing the Foot­ in the City” television program which will be highlighted by performances by at noon which will feature music from airs from 6-9 a.m. their next album to be recorded in hill Jazz Ensembles this quarter while Foothill’s Fanfairs at 1:10 p.m., and the In February, the vocal group will hold December. regular director Terry Summa is on leave Foothill Choir at 4:20 p.m. a clinic and concert for the Music Associ­ The daytime jazz Festival events are pursuing a full schedule of musical The jazz ensembles will perform in ation o f C alifornia'C om m unity Colleges free to the public and offer a chance to activities in the Bay Area, including the Foothill Theatre starting also at (MACC) and in a similar concert/clinic see some fine young musical talent, playing woodwinds and flute in the 8:30 a.m. Bands from Fremont, Moun­ for the California Music Educators Con­ mostly from around this area. The day group Solar Plexus. tain View, Carlm ont, Monta Vista, Los vention in Sacramento in March. events will be followed by a night concert Altos, Gunn, Santa Cruz, Mt. Eden, Yasinitsky teaches music related In April and May, Mattson takes his at 8 p.m., featuring Richie Cole (sax­ Terra Linda, Homestead and Await courses at San Jose State as well, and Fanfairs on a w hirlwind tour o f several ophone) and Ashley Alexander (trom­ w ill appear. The afternoon performances has taught at San Francisco State and the Mid-western cities, and for the first time bone) w ith the Foothill Jazz Ensemble w ill conclude w ith a special performance College of Marin. An instrumentalist and the tour will be guaranteed $750 per con­ by the San Jose State jazz ensemble, and Fanfairs. Tickets are $4 for adults composer, he has been a recipient o f a cert. Also in April, the ensemble plans a directed by Dwight Cannon. and $3 fo r students and senior citizens. commission by the National Association (Continued on page 4) Pag^^ovember^jJ^QJFootfjn^SENTlNnEL Fine Arts Briefs Master Sinfonia concert David Ramadanoff, Associate orchestra while founder-conduc- Conductor of the San Francisco tor John Mortarotti is on leave Symphony Orchestra, will con­ from his post as chairman of duct the Master Sinfonia in the Fine Arts department. a concert on Sunday, Nov. 18 Repetoire for the perfor­ at 8 p.m. in the Foothill Theatre. mance will be Ravel’s “ Mother The Master Sinfonia is a resi­ Goose Suite,” Haydn’s “ Sym dent adult chamber orchestra phony No. 99 in E-flat major," composed of professional caliber and “Concerto No. 2 in G musicians from the community. major for Strings” by Pergolesi. Ramadanoff is conducting the Tickets will be $2 at the door. Alto saxophonist Richie Cote Richie Cole: Year of the child activities The multi-cultural fashions of The benefit will be held in ‘Keeper of the Flame’ Sally Miller will join the rhythm- the Foothill Theatre on Friday, and-blues sounds o f the musical Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. Tickets can By STUART GORDON group Precision in a benfit con­ be purchased through BASS out­ his jazz genealogy. When you o f notes into the upper register, cert/fashion show for the Foot­ lets and in C—31 on Campus for No one who has followed the listen to Richie, you’re listening blowing so hard and high you’d hill College Scholarship Program $5 in advance or $2.50 at the ebb and flow or the meteoric to all these men. In Japan, they think the saxophone was going and the International Year of door. rise and fall o f careers in the refer to people who perpetuate to fly out of his hands and take the Child fund-raising activities. music industry would ever con­ traditional art forms as “living off into the stratosphere on its tend that stiff competitiveness treasures.” Cole’s last album own. wasn’t the norm in that field. earned him the credentials for Holiday crafts fair Competitiveness is a fact of such a title . life for the music industry in Cole, 31, grew up in Trenton, The truly amazing thing is A four-day holiday crafts fair o f Bay Area artisans and pro general. But in the world o f jazz, New Jersey and began playing that one could play so h o t and will be held on Campus Monday ceeds will benefit the scholar­ this competetiveness is tradition­ the saxophone at the age of ten. wired and yet technically be so through Thursday, November 26- ally tempered by a kind of He made his firs t contact with cool and effortless in execution.