September 16th thru September 18th, Friday thru Sunday (Free Admission)
12th Annual “Save Our Music" Vacaville Jazz Festival held Downtown & Nut Tree at 4 venues.
The Vaca Jazz Society (VJS) is a non-profit which supports local school music programs through the “Save Our Music" free camps & clinics, demonstration concerts, and the pursuit of safe quality family entertainment in the community. VJS will celebrate their 12th Anniversary from September 16th thru September 18th. “This is Vacaville's original Performing Arts Festival, with over 30 artist/ four venues," performing jazz dixieland, big bands, smooth, and Latin during the 3rd weekend of September established in 1999 by VJS.
VJS's annual “Free" Youth Music Camps, sponsored by Solano County Library & Live Music Center, featuring the VacaCity Stage Orchestra Youth Band, which started weekly every Wednesday on August 10th thru September 14th at the Vacaville Library, concluding with a 10am performances on September 17th at Town Square stage. Please call
Education Director Jim Lucas at (707)374-7567 for future music programs at the Library for the VacaCity Stage Orchestra- Youth All Stars. “The performances are presented by County Library and sponsored by the Live Music Center in Vacaville.
Crossroads Jazz Camps" begin at Town Square sponsored by Gold's Gym/Wunder Bar on Friday evening, September 16th, from 6pm to 9pm with children playing on water features while families enjoy the eclectic sounds of
“Vaca Jazz at Town Square" with Keith Stout's AMO Combo featured to kick off the festival along with Krohn,& Defazio featuring smooth jazz Sax by Mr. Ken Stout . The “Crossroads Jazz Camps" will continue downtown on Saturday and Sunday by students, and free music clinics taught by jazz educators at the Library, and at Mary Cornelison Photography. Teachers such as Ken Stout, local artist Stingy Brim will be showcased. Headlining the Vaca Jazz downtown will be Stan Johnson's J Harrison B Band.
Nut Tree begins our Multi Cultural Music Heritage of “World Jubilee Day," Sponsored by Nut Tree, Saturday, September 17th, from 1pm to 10pm, bringing Global Rhythm. America's tribute to the eclectic contribution's of music from all nations that contribute to America's Music Roots and the music common denominator is “Rhythm."
Ranging from towards the sounds of South American, Afro Cuban and more in this all nations music tribute. Dixon High Jazz Ensemble, Vaca High Ensemble, and Vanden High Jazz Ensemble will open for Delbert Bump
at 3pm, and Keith Stout's Alive Music Orchestra with guest vocalist Tina Benedict will open for Sapo Guapo performing at 8:15pm on Saturday September 17th. Gospel Jazz Sunday, begins at St. Mary's Church in Vacaville with Bill Bachmann's American Heritage Band performing for “Jazz Mass" on Sunday, September 11th at 10:30am at corner of Stinson & Hemlock.
Freedom's Gate" Military Tribute & Gospel Sunday, sponsored by Travis Credit Union & NorthBay Healthcare continues a week later, September 18th, from 1pm to 7pm, with special presentations by Don Kidder, Retired Col USAF, Former Mayor Augustine, Ret Col USAF, Mayor Hardy, and 60th Air Mobility Wing Cmdr at Travis AFB. Jazz Vespers will be paying tribute to the many sacrifices made by our Military and Veterans in honor of POW/MIA Day. AMO with Stan Suderow, and Pete Ayers, Alive Music Orchestra with Pastor Frank Salamone, Chris Grokenberger, and featured Tribute headliner the Travis USAF Band of the Golden West “The Commanders," with special Guest Renown Trumpeter Carl Saunders, will conclude the festival. Listen to one of the west coast's finest jazz groups in an evening of contemporary jazz, Latin hits, driving funk, and popular standards. Under the musical direction of TSgt Jim Butler, this 20-piece historic big band which began in 1959 is considered one of the finest of its kind on the West Coast.
Venues
Downtown Vacaville at Town Square Plaza, Vacaville Library, Mary Cornelison-Gaslighters Theater, Nut Tree Plaza/ Breezeway, and Panera Bread (Café) at Nut Tree Village.
About Carl Saunders
Jazz listeners living in the Los Angeles area and musicians worldwide have long known that Carl Saunders is one of the great trumpet players around today. Now with the release of five remarkable recordings (Out Of The Blue, Eclecticism, Bebop Big Band, Can You Dig Being Dug and The Lost Bill Holman Charts) Saunders' musical talents can be heard and enjoyed by a much wider audience.
Carl Saunders was born on Aug. 2, 1942 in Indianapolis, Indiana and his first five years were mostly spent on the road. His uncle was trumpeter-bandleader Bobby Sherwood was riding high with the popular Sherwood Orchestra, having hits with “Elks Parade" and “Sherwood's Forest." Saunders' mother Gail (Bobby's sister) sang for the Sherwood Orchestra and Stan Kenton, among others. When Carl was five, he and his mother settled in Los Angeles; living with Carl's aunt Caroline and her husband, tenor-saxophonist Dave Pell. At the time, Saunders heard the records of the Dave Pell Octet and was influenced by the style and phrasing of trumpeter Don Fagerquist.
Saunders began playing trumpet in the seventh grade and he quickly found that he had a natural ability, mostly learning to play by ear and never having any lessons. He played in school bands, and after he graduating high school, his mother helped get him a job with Stan Kenton's Orchestra when he was 18 years old. Saunders auditioned for Kenton's band and was given a choice: wait for the first opening in the trumpet section or join the band the following week as a member of the mellophonium section. He chose the latter and spent much of 1961-62 on the road with Stan Kenton.
After spending part of 1962-63 traveling with Bobby Sherwood's group (playing drums), Carl settled back in Las Vegas where during the next 20 years he played with a countless number of show bands, including lead trumpet with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, and Frank Sinatra. Saunders also traveled as a lead player with Paul Anka and Robert Goulet and with such bandleaders as Si Zentner, Harry James, Maynard Ferguson, Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet. In 1978 he also played drums one night in Las Vegas with Harry James and his band when Sonny Payne missed his plane and couldn't get to the gig.
In 1984, Carl Saunders moved to Los Angeles where he was soon playing lead trumpet with Bill Holman's Orchestra, a position he still holds. Saunders has also worked with John Williams and the big bands of Bob Florence, Johnny Mandel, Gerald Wilson, and the Phil Norman Tentet. In 1994, he became a member of the Dave Pell Octet (in Don Fagerquist's old chair.) In addition, he is often heard at the head of his own groups including the Carl Saunders Be Bop Big Band, his sextet and a quartet.
Each of Saunders' CDs is a gem while being quite different from each other. Out Of The Blue has the trumpeter showcased in quartet and sextet settings. His warm tone and long melodic lines are featured on such numbers as a miraculous version of Chopin's “Minute Waltz." Eclecticism has Saunders joined by 25 strings and three French horns, and he overdubs sections with five trumpets. Many of his favorite arrangers (including Bill Holman, Bob Florence and Clare Fischer) contributed charts. Bebop Big Band is most notable for the high musicianship of the band, the colorful originals, the hard swinging, and the arrangements of the late Herbie Phillips. Can You Dig Being Dug is Carl's first “live" recording, recorded at Charlie O's jazz club, and features Carl with Christian Jacob, Dave Stone, and Santo Savino. The Lost Bill Holman Charts is a dazzling array of Holman's arrangements for trumpet, tenor, trombone, baritone and rhythm that feature some of the principal players from the Holman big Band.
12th Annual “Save Our Music" Vacaville Jazz Festival held Downtown & Nut Tree at 4 venues.
The Vaca Jazz Society (VJS) is a non-profit which supports local school music programs through the “Save Our Music" free camps & clinics, demonstration concerts, and the pursuit of safe quality family entertainment in the community. VJS will celebrate their 12th Anniversary from September 16th thru September 18th. “This is Vacaville's original Performing Arts Festival, with over 30 artist/ four venues," performing jazz dixieland, big bands, smooth, and Latin during the 3rd weekend of September established in 1999 by VJS.
VJS's annual “Free" Youth Music Camps, sponsored by Solano County Library & Live Music Center, featuring the VacaCity Stage Orchestra Youth Band, which started weekly every Wednesday on August 10th thru September 14th at the Vacaville Library, concluding with a 10am performances on September 17th at Town Square stage. Please call
Education Director Jim Lucas at (707)374-7567 for future music programs at the Library for the VacaCity Stage Orchestra- Youth All Stars. “The performances are presented by County Library and sponsored by the Live Music Center in Vacaville.
Crossroads Jazz Camps" begin at Town Square sponsored by Gold's Gym/Wunder Bar on Friday evening, September 16th, from 6pm to 9pm with children playing on water features while families enjoy the eclectic sounds of
“Vaca Jazz at Town Square" with Keith Stout's AMO Combo featured to kick off the festival along with Krohn,& Defazio featuring smooth jazz Sax by Mr. Ken Stout . The “Crossroads Jazz Camps" will continue downtown on Saturday and Sunday by students, and free music clinics taught by jazz educators at the Library, and at Mary Cornelison Photography. Teachers such as Ken Stout, local artist Stingy Brim will be showcased. Headlining the Vaca Jazz downtown will be Stan Johnson's J Harrison B Band.
Nut Tree begins our Multi Cultural Music Heritage of “World Jubilee Day," Sponsored by Nut Tree, Saturday, September 17th, from 1pm to 10pm, bringing Global Rhythm. America's tribute to the eclectic contribution's of music from all nations that contribute to America's Music Roots and the music common denominator is “Rhythm."
Ranging from towards the sounds of South American, Afro Cuban and more in this all nations music tribute. Dixon High Jazz Ensemble, Vaca High Ensemble, and Vanden High Jazz Ensemble will open for Delbert Bump
at 3pm, and Keith Stout's Alive Music Orchestra with guest vocalist Tina Benedict will open for Sapo Guapo performing at 8:15pm on Saturday September 17th. Gospel Jazz Sunday, begins at St. Mary's Church in Vacaville with Bill Bachmann's American Heritage Band performing for “Jazz Mass" on Sunday, September 11th at 10:30am at corner of Stinson & Hemlock.
Freedom's Gate" Military Tribute & Gospel Sunday, sponsored by Travis Credit Union & NorthBay Healthcare continues a week later, September 18th, from 1pm to 7pm, with special presentations by Don Kidder, Retired Col USAF, Former Mayor Augustine, Ret Col USAF, Mayor Hardy, and 60th Air Mobility Wing Cmdr at Travis AFB. Jazz Vespers will be paying tribute to the many sacrifices made by our Military and Veterans in honor of POW/MIA Day. AMO with Stan Suderow, and Pete Ayers, Alive Music Orchestra with Pastor Frank Salamone, Chris Grokenberger, and featured Tribute headliner the Travis USAF Band of the Golden West “The Commanders," with special Guest Renown Trumpeter Carl Saunders, will conclude the festival. Listen to one of the west coast's finest jazz groups in an evening of contemporary jazz, Latin hits, driving funk, and popular standards. Under the musical direction of TSgt Jim Butler, this 20-piece historic big band which began in 1959 is considered one of the finest of its kind on the West Coast.
Venues
Downtown Vacaville at Town Square Plaza, Vacaville Library, Mary Cornelison-Gaslighters Theater, Nut Tree Plaza/ Breezeway, and Panera Bread (Café) at Nut Tree Village.
About Carl Saunders
Jazz listeners living in the Los Angeles area and musicians worldwide have long known that Carl Saunders is one of the great trumpet players around today. Now with the release of five remarkable recordings (Out Of The Blue, Eclecticism, Bebop Big Band, Can You Dig Being Dug and The Lost Bill Holman Charts) Saunders' musical talents can be heard and enjoyed by a much wider audience.
Carl Saunders was born on Aug. 2, 1942 in Indianapolis, Indiana and his first five years were mostly spent on the road. His uncle was trumpeter-bandleader Bobby Sherwood was riding high with the popular Sherwood Orchestra, having hits with “Elks Parade" and “Sherwood's Forest." Saunders' mother Gail (Bobby's sister) sang for the Sherwood Orchestra and Stan Kenton, among others. When Carl was five, he and his mother settled in Los Angeles; living with Carl's aunt Caroline and her husband, tenor-saxophonist Dave Pell. At the time, Saunders heard the records of the Dave Pell Octet and was influenced by the style and phrasing of trumpeter Don Fagerquist.
Saunders began playing trumpet in the seventh grade and he quickly found that he had a natural ability, mostly learning to play by ear and never having any lessons. He played in school bands, and after he graduating high school, his mother helped get him a job with Stan Kenton's Orchestra when he was 18 years old. Saunders auditioned for Kenton's band and was given a choice: wait for the first opening in the trumpet section or join the band the following week as a member of the mellophonium section. He chose the latter and spent much of 1961-62 on the road with Stan Kenton.
After spending part of 1962-63 traveling with Bobby Sherwood's group (playing drums), Carl settled back in Las Vegas where during the next 20 years he played with a countless number of show bands, including lead trumpet with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, and Frank Sinatra. Saunders also traveled as a lead player with Paul Anka and Robert Goulet and with such bandleaders as Si Zentner, Harry James, Maynard Ferguson, Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet. In 1978 he also played drums one night in Las Vegas with Harry James and his band when Sonny Payne missed his plane and couldn't get to the gig.
In 1984, Carl Saunders moved to Los Angeles where he was soon playing lead trumpet with Bill Holman's Orchestra, a position he still holds. Saunders has also worked with John Williams and the big bands of Bob Florence, Johnny Mandel, Gerald Wilson, and the Phil Norman Tentet. In 1994, he became a member of the Dave Pell Octet (in Don Fagerquist's old chair.) In addition, he is often heard at the head of his own groups including the Carl Saunders Be Bop Big Band, his sextet and a quartet.
Each of Saunders' CDs is a gem while being quite different from each other. Out Of The Blue has the trumpeter showcased in quartet and sextet settings. His warm tone and long melodic lines are featured on such numbers as a miraculous version of Chopin's “Minute Waltz." Eclecticism has Saunders joined by 25 strings and three French horns, and he overdubs sections with five trumpets. Many of his favorite arrangers (including Bill Holman, Bob Florence and Clare Fischer) contributed charts. Bebop Big Band is most notable for the high musicianship of the band, the colorful originals, the hard swinging, and the arrangements of the late Herbie Phillips. Can You Dig Being Dug is Carl's first “live" recording, recorded at Charlie O's jazz club, and features Carl with Christian Jacob, Dave Stone, and Santo Savino. The Lost Bill Holman Charts is a dazzling array of Holman's arrangements for trumpet, tenor, trombone, baritone and rhythm that feature some of the principal players from the Holman big Band.
