First Tuesdays Jazz Masterclass Series
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CSU East Bay Department of Music First Tuesdays Jazz Masterclass Series |
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First Tuesdays Jazz Masterclasses are free and open to the public and take place in the Music Building Recital Hall, MB1055 at 7 p.m. (except for March 6th which will begin at 7:15 p.m.)
October 4, 2011 - Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh
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November 1, 2011 - Latin Percussionist John Santos |
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December 6, 2011 - Guitarist Mimi Fox
Mimi has performed/recorded with Branford Marsalis, Davis Sanchez, Houston Person, Don Lanphere, Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany and Janis Siegal (Manhattan Transfer), Barbara Dennerlein, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terri Lyne Carrington, and fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, Charlie Hunter, and Mundell Lowe. She has also shared the stage with legends Stevie Wonder and John Sebastian and was featured on La Guitara, a special project of Vanguard recording artist Patty Larkin. Mimi has released eight highly acclaimed albums as a leader, including her two most recent on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. 2006's double CD Perpetually Hip was hailed as a “masterwork” by scores of jazz publications. |
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February 7, 2012 - Brian Pardo Trio with Peter Barshay (bass) and Alan Hall (drums)
Mr. Pardo's jazz performance credits include work with Jack McDuff, Stan Getz, Eddie Harris, Charles McPherson, Arthur Blythe, Mark Levine, Eddie Henderson, Mundell Lowe, Tony Monaco, Barbara Dennerlein, Eddie Marshall, Donald "Duck" Bailey, Paul Hanson, Chuck Israels, and Paul McCandless. Mr. Pardo has appeared at the JVC Jazz Festival (NY), the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Clearwater Jazz Festival (FLA), the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Russian River Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, and Zellerbach Hall (Cal Performances). He has recorded with Jack McDuff, Chuck Israels, Barbara Dennerlein, Paul Hanson, Claudia Gomez, Phil Klein, and Dave La Febvre. He also arranged and recorded material for the Monterey Jazz Festival Holiday Sampler. Commercial composition credits include the scoring of music for film, radio and television. Original soundtrack work can be heard on programs produced for PBS, Comedy Central, and ABC Television, and includes a score that Mr. Pardo co-composed for Everyday Heroes, a film by Academy Award nominated director Rick Goldsmith. In his home recording studio, he has produced commercial music for Apple Computers, Levi's Apparel, Summit Medical Center, Kryptonite Sporting Gear, and Dominican Hospital. Mr. Pardo is the Director of Jazz Studies at the Bentley School (Lafayette, CA), and is on the faculties of the Jazzschool (Berkeley, CA), Mills College (Oakland, CA), and Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, CA). He joined the CSUEB faculty as lecturer of jazz guitar in fall, 2008. Mr. Pardo is Clinician for Yamaha Musical Instruments and Sibelius, and is on the faculties of Jazzcamp West, the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop, and the Jazz Guitar Masters Series. |
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March 6, 2012 (Please note 7:15 p.m. start time for this date only) -
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April 3, 2012 - Saxophonist Dayna Stephens
Since Graduating from the Monk Institute in 2003, Dayna has been performing and teaching actively. Dayna also plays upright bass and has performed with Stefon Harris, Marcus Belgrave, Sonny Fortune, Roy Hargrove and Natalie Douglas. |
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May 1, 2012 - Saxophonist Geoff Countryman
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May 15, 2012 - Trumpeter Brian Lynch (CSU East Bay Jazz Resident Artist)
He currently is on the faculty at New York University as well as conducting clinics and workshops at prestigious institutions of learning the world over. His talents have been recognized by top placings in the Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls; highly rated reviews for his work in Downbeat, Jazziz and Jazz Times; three Grammy award nominations as well as a 2006 Grammy Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and Meet The Composer. Brian's most recent CD releases as a leader include Bolero Nights For Billie Holiday (Venus); his Grammy Award winning collaborative recording project with Eddie Palmieri, Simpático (ArtistShare – http://brianlynch.artistshare.com); Spheres Of Influence Suite (EWE), and ConClave (Criss Cross). For more information about Brian Lynch, see his website at http://www.brianlynchjazz.com.
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June 5, 2012 - Pianist Peter Zak
Since 2005, Peter has been recording for the Danish jazz label, SteepleChase Records--his first release for the company, The Peter Zak Trio, featuring drummer Al Foster, and bassist Paul Gill, appeared that year. Subsequent releases include For Tomorrow, featuring Paul Gill and drummer Willie Jones III, in 2006; a solo piano album, My Conception, in 2007; Seed Of Sin, featuring Paul Gill and drummer Quincy Davis, in 2008; Blues on the Corner: The Music of McCoy Tyner, again featuring Paul Gill and Quincy Davis,in 2009; and The Decider, a quartet album including Walt Weiskopf on saxophones, Ugonna Okegwo on bass, and drummer Billy Drummond. Down East, a trio date featuring Peter Washington and Billy Drummond, has just appeared in the spring of 2011. Peter also remains quite busy as a recording sideman as well, including recent appearances on Walt Weiskopf's Day In, Night Out, and See the Pyramid, Ryan Kisor's Live at Smalls, and Tom Guarna's Major Minor, among others.
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Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh has been living in New York since 1995. He has recorded four albums as a leader, 
Five-time Grammy-nominated percussionist and US Artists Fontanals Fellow, John Santos, is one of the foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music in the world today. Born in November, 1955 in San Francisco, California, he was raised in the Puerto Rican and Cape Verdean traditions of his family, surrounded by music. The fertile musical environment of the San Francisco Bay Area shaped his career in a unique way. His studies of Afro-Latin music have included several trips to New York, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil and Colombia.He is known for his innovative use of traditional forms and instruments in combination with contemporary music, and has earned much respect and recognition as an educator, composer, and record and event producer. 
Internationally renowned guitarist/composer/recording artist Mimi Fox has been named a winner in 6 consecutive Downbeat Magazine international critic's polls and is one of today's
most widely acclaimed jazz guitarists.
She has released nine recordings as a leader, including her newest release on Steve
Vai's Favored Nations label, Live at the Palladium. This new DVD features Mimi in front
of a sold out audience and has all the magic and excitement of a live performance.Her 2006 double CD Perpetually Hip, received rave reviews from scores of publications
including the San Francisco Chronicle, which called this project Fox's "Masterwork" and
said: "The two discs stand as a definitive Fox statement. The first showcases her
simmering interplay with a quartet featuring drum maestro Billy Hart, while the second
captures her breathtaking solo style in an approach that is as harmonically resourceful
as it is lyrically inventive."
Brian Pardo was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has a B.A. in Music Theory and Composition from Haverford College (Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors in Music), an M.A. in Music Composition from Mills College, and a teaching credential in Secondary School Music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He studied guitar with Pat Martino, Allen Hanlon, Tuck Andress, and Fred Frith.
Guitar great John Stowell has joined forces with saxophonist Michael Zilber to record originals and renditions of songs by Kenny Wheeler and John Scofield, as well as off the beaten track standards. Joined by the Bay Area’s first call call rhythm team of John Shifflett (bass) and Jason Lewis (drums), the two have recorded solo, duo and quartet cuts which mix free playing, transparent ECMish settings and more hard-charging modern jazz. The Stowell-Zilber quartet runs the gamut from the delicacy of The Beatles and A Brazilian to the abstracted New Orleans grease of Wabash 3 and the Nordic swing of Kayak. 
Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area Dayna Stephens began playing the saxophone at age 13, attended the prestigious Berkeley High School where he was part of their jazz ensemble, and was later accepted to Berklee College of Music in Boston on a full scholarship. There, he studied with Hal Crook, Billy Pierce, George Garzone and Andy McGee among others. While in Boston, Dayna also had the opportunity to perform with Chick Corea and the Boston Pops for a PBS special.
After graduating from Berklee, Dayna was selected to be in the Thelonious Monk Institute of jazz program located at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard. He studied there for two years and while there, Dayna studied and played with, among others: Dave Holland, Kenny Barron, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Lewis Nash, Mark Turner, Christian McBride, Carl Allen and Terence Blanchard. In the spring of 2003 the Monk group made a recording featuring Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. The recording Featured some of the best compositions and arrangements made by group during their two years spent together.
Geoff Countryman is a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, engineer and teacher. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Geoff came to New York to attend NYU’s Jazz performance program where he studied with Gil Goldstein, Lenny Pickett, John Scofield, and Chris Potter. Since graduating Cum Laude from NYU he has created an impressive body of work and has been in high demand. He can be seen in Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, has performed regularly with the Saturday Night Live Band and with Chico Hamilton’s Euphoria as well as with his own band, The Sidewinders and countless others. He was assistant producer to Lenny Pickett for Kenny Werner's album Lawn Chair Society (Blue Note Records) and is a featured performer on hip-hop artist T.I.'s platinum, Grammy nominated album King (Atlantic records).
Geoff has enjoyed working with a number of prominent artists including, Patti LaBelle, Ingrid Jensen, Hiromi, John Pattitucci, Randy Brecker, Leon Pendarvis, Mike Mainieri, producers Neil Jason and Al Bell, Emmy award winner Katreese Barnes, and Langhorne Slim among many others.
His professional background also includes extensive commercial work on national television spots. He continues to record, compose and produce music for TV, film and internet. 
A highly esteemed and influential musician within both the hardcore straight ahead
and Latin Jazz communities, Grammy Award winner Brian Lynch is as comfortable
negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean pioneer Eddie Palmieri as he
is swinging through advanced harmony with bebop maestro Phil Woods. A honored
graduate of two of the jazz world's most distinguished academies, Art Blakey’s Jazz
Messengers and the Horace Silver Quintet, he has been a valued collaborator with jazz
artists such as Benny Golson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Charles McPherson; Latin music
icons as diverse as Hector LaVoe and Lila Downs; and pop luminaries such as Prince.
As a bandleader and recording artist he has released a series of critically acclaimed
CDs featuring his distinctive composing and arranging, and toured the world with
various ensembles reflecting the wide sweep of his music. 
Peter grew up first in Ohio, then in Oakland, California, studying classical piano, then turning to jazz while in high school. Following graduation from U.C. Berkeley, Peter played clubs, concerts and festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area with such artists as Frank Morgan and John Handy.
Since relocating to New York, he has performed and/or recorded with Junior Cook, George Coleman, Jimmy Cobb, Billy Hart, Ryan Kisor, Etta Jones, Scott Hamilton, Al Foster, Eric Alexander, Curtis Stigers, Walt Weiskopf, and Jon Hendricks, among many others. Peter is also a faculty member in the renowned jazz program at New School University.