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Kuumbwa Jazz Celebrates International Jazz Day With Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour

Source: Bennett Jackson
March 22, 2013

Santa Cruz, CA: Kuumbwa Jazz will proudly join in the International Jazz Day celebrations taking place all over the world on April 30, 2013 by presenting an encore performance of Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian McBride, Benny Green, Lewis Nash, Chris Potter & Ambrose Akinmusire. “What better way to celebrate the history and impact of jazz, than spending International Jazz Day with the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour band,” says Monterey Jazz Festival Board Member ...

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35 years of Jazz in Santa Cruz, California Celebrated through Jazz Alley Mural

Source: Bennett Jackson
February 10, 2011

Santa Cruz, California's Kuumbwa Jazz Center has grown from its small beginnings to one of the most highly respected jazz-presenting institutions in the country, attracting artists of national and international renown. In 2010, the venue turned 35 and celebrated by helping to commission Jazz Alley, a 80-foot-by-12-foot mural depicting five famous jazz artists, but not the usual suspects that have been immortalized on similar murals throughout the world. The artists were chosen by Kuumbwa Jazz as musicians that have been ...

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