November 19, 2022 • 7:30pm • Mount Carmel Lutheran Church • 1701 Fredericks St, SLO Marina Pacowski is a brilliant jazz vocalist, scat singer and pianist. A French native who has toured extensively in Europe, Pacowski now resides in Los Angeles where she has performed in all of the top jazz venues. Los Angeles based [...]
October 2, 2022 • 4:00pm • Mount Carmel Lutheran Church • 1701 Fredericks St, SLO The San Luis Obispo County Jazz Federation was proud to present the outstanding Soul Jazz group 41K on Sunday October 2nd at 4 pm. Headlined by Dave Becker on woodwinds and Damon Castillo on guitar and vocals, the band also [...]
May 28, 2022 • 7:30pm • Mount Carmel Lutheran Church • 1701 Fredericks St, SLO The San Luis Obispo County Jazz Federation wass proud to present their 37th Annual Jazz Piano Showcase. The concert will featured Marshall Otwell, Mark Bocchicchio, Bob Harway, Jim Barnett, Mark Pietri and Craig Updegrove accompanied by Dylan Johnson on bass [...]
Arrangement by Dave Becker. Winners include Tarek Hariri, Blake Roguenant, Daniel Gomez, David Venturini, Joel Surfleet and Jonah Shin. Rhythm section includes Gary Drysdale, Travis Harms and Darrell Voss. https://youtu.be/IqZB2rfPt_A
by https://www.mcglaviano.com/ February 9, 2020 It was a crisp, clear winter afternoon. Inside the Mount Carmel Lutheran Church, a near capacity crowd settled in for this year’s Saxophone Summit. The church’s acoustics, together with the sizable audience and sound engineer Marshall Pihl’s hands on the controls, provided a pleasing sound, with just a hint [...]
Presented by the San Luis Obispo County Jazz Federation (http://slojazz.org) Unity Concert Hall January 18, 2020 Review by Jazz Fed Member Michael Glaviano We bundled up and got in line more than an hour before the concert. It was, after all, going to be a full house. The Ernie Watts Quartet was coming off a tour, and [...]
The SLO County Jazz Federation was pleased to present the Natalie Cressman-Ian Faquini Duo in a special concert of straight ahead and Brazilian jazz on Thursday night December 5 at the Unity Concert Hall.. The duo recently received rave reviews at this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival before embarking on a European tour. The San Diego [...]
The fantastic New York based drummer and arranger Rob Garcia brought his quartet to the Unity Concert Hall (1130 Orcutt Road in SLO) on Saturday night Nov. 2, 2019 . This concert was a proud presentation by the SLO County Jazz Federation. The NYC Jazz Record has describes Garcia as a drummer who “makes you [...]
We were SO fortunate to have such amazing musicians in our community! Thanks to Dave Becker for assembling Bob Bennett, Kevin Hicks, Marshall Otwell, Dylan Johnson and Darrell Voss to pay tribute to Art Blakey on his 100th Birthday. Presentation by the SLO County Jazz Federation, your source for the best in jazz since [...]
The San Luis Obispo County Jazz Federation is pleased to present the Arthur White Jazz Quartet in a “Welcome-to-San Luis Obispo" concert on Saturday night September 21 at the Unity Concert Hall (1130 Orcutt Road; SLO). The show starts at 7:30 pm with doors opening at 7:00. Saxophonist Arthur White is assuming the reins of the Cal [...]
