Jazz Articles about The DVC Night Jazz Band

The DVC Night Jazz Band: Featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi

by Jack Bowers
February 22, 2004

The DVC above stands for Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hills, CA. DVC is quite proud of its Jazz Studies program, as well it should be with more than five hundred students helping to support four big bands, four smaller combos, three vocal groups, a summer clinic supervised by master educator Jamey Aebersold, and classes and seminars on Jazz theory, improvisation and history. This is the second album by the DVC Night Jazz Band. The first one featured alto saxophonist ...