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‘Spring Guide 1 & Whats UP!


Bennett Friedman Quartet Jazz Concert in April To Benefit The SRJC Foundation Jazz Studies Fund!


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ The Music Department of Santa Rosa Ju- nior College (SRJC) presents a jazz concert by the Bennett Friedman Quartet on Friday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Newman Auditorium on their Santa Rosa campus. The concert will feature organist Brian Ho, guitarist Randy Vincent, and drummer Lorca Hart. General admission to the event is $10, and $5 for students and seniors. Parking permits are re- quired and available for $4 on campus lots. Pro- ceeds


from the concert


benefi t the SRJC Foundation Jazz Studies Fund. In his fi rst appearance at SRJC, Brian Ho brings his Hammond B-3 organ. Following the B-3 masters such as Jimmy Smith, Brother


Jack McDuff, and Richard “Groove” Holmes, Ho


demonstrates respect for the tradition while bringing a mod- ern and youthful approach to the instrument. The UC Da- vis graduate per- forms


Drummer Lorca Hart often ap- pears at Bay Area jazz venues with organist Brian Ho. He has also performed with Hugh Masekela,


the


Clayton Brothers and Anthony Wilson. Saxophonist Bennett Friedman


has per-


formed at the Mon- terey Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Healdsburg


larly at


regu- jazz


venues, such as Yoshi’s in


Oakland, and many Bay Area jazz festivals. Randy Vincent has been


teaching jazz guitar at Sonoma State University since 1981. He has performed with Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson and Dizzy Gillespie.


Jazz Festival, the Monterey Bay Blues Festival, and the Russian River Jazz Festival. He has been featured as a so- loist with Frank Sinatra, Rose- mary Clooney, Natalie Cole, and Marvin Gaye. Friedman has taught Jazz Studies at SRJC since 1977.


He is the recipient of a Na-


tional Endowment for the Arts grant for jazz composition.


TM


“A week feels like a year when you’re


seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced


onward through the night.” Chloe Rattray


JOKES & Humor # 6 A man traveling in southern Indiana was headed for the Kentucky border ...when he saw a large sign... “LAST CHANCE FOR $1.25 GAS!”


He still had more than a quarter of a tank left, but fi gured he’d better take advantage of this opportu- nity to fi ll-up his tank.


As he was getting his change from the attendant, he asked, “How much is gas in Kentucky?”


The attendant replied, “$1.10...”


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