Marcia Miget at la Pena this weekend, San Jose Jazz Fest Next
Talk about working overtime, Saturday August 6th finds ‘triple threat’, saxophonist/pianist/flutist, Marcia Migét performing with the Montclair Women’s Big Band at La Peña Cultural Center 8:30 pm and the following Saturday August 13, 2005 with Wayne Wallace’s Rhythm and Rhyme 4 pm at San Jose Jazz Festival.
A ‘Maestra’ of many elements, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia Migét’s this year’s performances-to-date include San Rafael’s Italian Street Painting Festival, ‘Unplugged’ at the 2005 Sonoma Jazz Festival, the 2005 International Association of Jazz Educators' with the African American Jazz Caucus’ Allstar Big Band (she was the 2004 Featured Artist performing with the Historically Black Colleges' University Allstar Band); in 2004 the Monterey, Stern Grove and Fillmore Jazz Festivals as the only female saxophonist with Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, and with Wayne Wallace and Pete Escovedo at Vallejo’s 2004 Jazz Festival. Director of Miraflores Music Academie her musical skills cross multiple genres, this year alone she’s recorded with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra on his latest Big Band Project, Rhapsody by Gershwin; performed with the Northern California Lighthouse Singers at their 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts; and her latest project-as-producer, Passing the Baton: the Miget-Redd Session Part 1 ‘streams’ on www.mee-j.com. Her performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such notables as Freddy Redd, Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato, Frank Foster, Donald Byrd, Chick Corea, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Karl Perazzo, Susanne Cianni, Phish, John Santos, John Handy, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and the SF Kids, Jaimeo Brown and Dartanyan Brown to name a few.
If you haven’t heard her yet surf to the website and keep an eye out for Migét mee-j the band. Listen with your Heart to streaming music on www.mee-j.com.
Talk about working overtime, Saturday August 6th finds ‘triple threat’, saxophonist/pianist/flutist, Marcia Migét performing with the Montclair Women’s Big Band at La Peña Cultural Center 8:30 pm and the following Saturday August 13, 2005 with Wayne Wallace’s Rhythm and Rhyme 4 pm at San Jose Jazz Festival.
A ‘Maestra’ of many elements, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia Migét’s this year’s performances-to-date include San Rafael’s Italian Street Painting Festival, ‘Unplugged’ at the 2005 Sonoma Jazz Festival, the 2005 International Association of Jazz Educators' with the African American Jazz Caucus’ Allstar Big Band (she was the 2004 Featured Artist performing with the Historically Black Colleges' University Allstar Band); in 2004 the Monterey, Stern Grove and Fillmore Jazz Festivals as the only female saxophonist with Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, and with Wayne Wallace and Pete Escovedo at Vallejo’s 2004 Jazz Festival. Director of Miraflores Music Academie her musical skills cross multiple genres, this year alone she’s recorded with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra on his latest Big Band Project, Rhapsody by Gershwin; performed with the Northern California Lighthouse Singers at their 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts; and her latest project-as-producer, Passing the Baton: the Miget-Redd Session Part 1 ‘streams’ on www.mee-j.com. Her performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such notables as Freddy Redd, Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato, Frank Foster, Donald Byrd, Chick Corea, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Karl Perazzo, Susanne Cianni, Phish, John Santos, John Handy, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and the SF Kids, Jaimeo Brown and Dartanyan Brown to name a few.
If you haven’t heard her yet surf to the website and keep an eye out for Migét mee-j the band. Listen with your Heart to streaming music on www.mee-j.com.
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