Global Jazz Students Inhabit the Wonderful World of Garzone

Since 1996, Berklee students have performed on the stages of the Monterey Jazz Festival in the esteemed company of alumni performers such as Diana Krall B.M. 83, Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah B.M. 04, John Scofield B.M. 73 97H, Esperanza Spalding B.M. 05 18H, and Luciana Souza B.M. 88. This year, the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, led by their professor and mentor, saxophonist George Garzone, took their own place in festival history, performing a program of Garzone's compositions: the World of Garzone.

Prior to the festival, Garzone and the band visited Oakland School of the Arts (OSA) to give a clinic for 100 high school music students. Late in the event, Garzone pulled a rabbit out of his hat, making a surprise invitation for OSA student drummer Jayla Hern ndez to come to the stage and duet with him. Fireworks ensued.

Garzone, enjoying his first-ever appearance at Monterey immensely, helmed the Ambassadors in two performances, on the festival's Garden Stage and in the Pacific Jazz Caf . Typical of the Garzone sense of humor, his take on I Hear a Rhapsody became I Hear a Rap Tune ; and the musical illustration of his long-ago encounter in the Village Vanguard with Charles Mingus, The Mingus that I Knew, provided another highlight.

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