Stanford Summer Jazz Series: Jazz Workshop All-Stars

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Local music fans are gearing up for warm weather and smooth sounds with the arrival of Stanford Shopping Center’s Summer Jazz Series. Performing in the 25th year of the popular, free jazz series are artists such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Times 4 and Le Jazz Hot Quartet.

The ten-week concert series is hosted by Stanford Shopping Center and produced by SFJAZZ, a leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast .

Stanford Jazz Workshop Faculty All-Stars – June 23
With this swinging show, Stanford Jazz Workshop kicks off its 40th season! Beloved by SJW students as educators as well as maintaining careers as leading performers, the All-Stars present an afternoon of new arrangements of classic jazz, featuring saxophonists Patrick Wolff and Andrew Speight, trumpeter Erik Jekabson, pianist Joe Gilman, bassist John Wiitala and drummer Hamir Atwal.

Stanford Summer Jazz Series 2011
Thursday evenings from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
June 16 through August 18
Stanford Shopping Center – Clock Tower Plaza
– FREE and open to the public

• June 16 – Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
• June 23 – Stanford Jazz Workshop Faculty All-Stars
• June 30 – Erik Jekabson’s Son’s New Orleans Quintet Featuring Kenny Washington
• July 7 – Weather Wayne with Michael Zilber
• July 14 – Tito y su Son de Cuba
• July 21 – Times 4
• July 28 – Scott Amendola Quartet
• August 4 – Forró Brazuca
• August 11 – María Volonté
• August 18 – Le Jazz Hot Quartet

Stanford Shopping Center
Clock Tower Plaza (near Neiman Marcus and Williams-Sonoma Home)
680 Stanford Shopping Center
Palo Alto, CA

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.