Wynton Marsalis jams with the Vacaville High School Jazz Ensemble, at the 2009 Vacaville Jazz Festival.

Wynton Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical during the same year.

Guess who walks up and takes a place in the band?!!!

WYNTON MARSALIS!!! Renowned Tr umpet Player !!!

Strolls in with his Trumpet and plays with the band!! Here is his solo!! Play on my Brother…The kids were loving it and the audience and the parents were blown away!

The Jazz Ensemble put on a Great Performance that day !!

WAY TO MAKE OUR DAY MR. MARSALIS!   

Delbert  Bump and his SAZIL Latin Band perform at the Vacaville Jazz Festival.

Throughout my musical career we have explored many styles and concepts in the Jazz world. The group known as Sa-Zil is named after the Salsa and Brazilian styles of music along with other musical forms from the Caribbean. Latin Jazz is a variety of music that has had many innovations. My music brings a strong influence of Jazz concepts as well as an interpretation of tradition style that is totally unique.

This example of our work is only a small sample of the music we perform. The beat is infectious and the melodies are unique and inspiring and the total effect is new and profound musically. We all hope that this style is a spring board for even greater creativity. Please become apart of Sa-Zil a new from and style just waiting for excitement. ” Sa-Zil the new spice of life.”Thank you to all who make this love of music possible. D. Bump For further details checkout our website at Delbert Bump.com

 American River College Vocal Jazz Ensemble

The advanced Vocal Jazz Ensemble has earned a reputation as a top quality ensemble, having earned 16 DownBeat Awards, and the honor of performing for many local, state, national, and international audiences.

The Jazz Choir is a larger ensemble, where student singers can learn the skills necessary for the more advanced ensemble or just ‘hang’ and get the flavor of what jazz group singing is all about! And the Jazz/Pop Styles Class is a wonderful place to work on your individual jazz vocal style.

Clarence Williams and his 2nd Planet band leans heavy on contemporary and smooth jazz, to go with jazz fusion, rock funk and R&B.

They like to play their own arrangements but also mix in covers of other groups, and sometimes “put a new spin on it.” He mentioned that the group has a mellow version of Stevie Wonder’s “Overjoyed” and an instrumental take on The Beatles’ “Come Together.”

A military tribute, complete with a small ceremony for prisoners of war and those who are missing in action, preceded the grand finale,

A performance from the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West Commanders.

Alive Music Orchestra

In the early 1980’s, Keith Stout and his associates began to envision a big band dedicated to the expression of American Jazz, Gospel and Christian Contemporary music.

They also wanted to educate the public about where jazz music came from and help young musicians develop their talents and passion for music.

Alive Music Orchestra or AMO, was formed as a non-profit organization. Since many of the current standard jazz forms we hear today originated from other styles of music, AMO has put together a program which encompasses many different forms of jazz and appeals to a wide audience. The members of AMO come from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience such as organizing, directing and performing in worship bands, rock bands, chamber groups, symphonic bands, big bands, and contemporary instrumental orchestras.

Alive Music Orchestra

They have performed in venues such as Six Flags Marine World and Disneyland theme parks and have been featured on local, Christian and network television programs. Several of the band’s members have performed with such names as: Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Huey Lewis and the News, George Benson, The Four Tops, Pete Escovido, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans and Richie Cole. AMO recorded it’s first CD in 1993 entitled “Down By The Riverside” and more recently “AMO Live”. Michelle Seaton, Art Stout and Frank Salamone round out AMO vocally as “Singers In Harmony”. Their vocal styleings add a fresh dimension, especially the swing and gospel charts the band performs. Another exciting group is Keith Stout’s AMO Rhythm-N-Brass Band, which is a smaller group for smaller settings. They feature jazz standards and smooth jazz.