Released on: October 2, 2007, 1:32 am

Press Release Author: imajinnWEST

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: MIRAFLORES MUSIC'S MIGET CONTINUES CONCERT SERIES WITH SONOMA
STATE'S RANDY VINCENT

Press Release Body: On Wednesday October 10, 2007, Marcia Miget of Miraflores Music
School will perform the third in a series of lunchtime concerts on the patio of the
First Presbyterian Church, corner of 5th and 'E' Streets, San Rafael. Each week from
noon to 1:30 pm Ms. Miget will perform with a local name musician or former student
in jazz, Latin or classical genres.
Sixth in the lineup of Marcia's 'Friends' is Sonoma State University's Randy
Vincent. Beginning his career in Florida and moving to the San Francisco Area in
1980, Randy divides his time between performing and teaching. Among the numerous
legends he has performed and recorded with are: Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie,
Bobby Hutcherson, Mel Martin, Harold Jones, Mel Graves, Bill Watrous, George Cables,
Ernie Watts, the Bay Area Jazz Composers\' Orchestra, the New Oakland Jazz Orchestra
and The Turtle Island String Quartet. His national and international jazz festival
performances include the Monterey Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival,
Telluride Colorado Jazz Festival, North Coast Jazz Festival, Fairfax Jazz Festival,
San Jose Jazz Festival, Sacramento Jazz Festival, Jazz on the (Russian) River, San
Miguel de Allende Jazz Festival in Mexico, and the Hollywood Bowl for Dizzy
Gillespie\'s 75th birthday celebration.
Teaching jazz guitar at Sonoma State University since 1981 Mr. Vincent has conducted
clinics throughout the U.S. While on tour with Joe Henderson, taught at Taller de
Musicos in Madrid, Spain. His students include Julian Lage, the young prodigy who
appeared on the 2000 Grammy Awards show, Dave McNab, who has worked with Shelby
Lynne and has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David
Letterman, and Liberty Ellman, who works on a regular basis with Greg Osby and Henry
Threadgill.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia has most recently
performed with the Voices of Latin Rock at Arizona's Cesar Chavez Day Celebration.
With skills that cross multiple genres she's the only female saxophonist/flutist
with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, performing with Wayne
Wallace's Rhythm and Rhyme, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th
Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts and the Montclair Women's
Big Band. She's played at Monterey, Stern Grove, Sonoma, Fillmore Jazz Festivals and
the International Association of Jazz Educators\' Conventions with the African
American Jazz Caucus AllStar Big Band (in 2004 was the Featured Artist with the
Historically Black Colleges\' University Allstar Band). Her last project-as-producer
was Passing the Baton: the Miget-Redd Session Part 1 with legendary Bebop pianist,
Freddy Redd. A Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences her
performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such
notables as Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato,
Frank Foster, Pete Escovedo, Donald Byrd, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra's Arkestra, Freddy
Redd, Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, Carl Perazzo, Phish, Wayne
Wallace, John Santos, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and Prophet, Jaimeo
Brown and Dartanyan Brown. Her past band has opened for Chick Corea, Kenny Loggins,
Phoebe Snow and performed on MTV with Rickie Lee Jones. She has been the featured
performer with the James Cleveland Choir at the Gospel Music Workshop of America; in
a 2003 Jam Session Tribute to Oscar Peterson at the Toronto International
Association of Jazz Educators\' Convention.
Based in the Bay Area Miraflores Music School is a preeminent private school that
has been the foundation for some of Marin's best musical talent since 1988, as
current and graduated students, e.g. James Perdelwitz, Joelle Parrett, Jeff Derby,
Jaimeo Brown, Alex Baky, J.J.Byars, Lou Wiskus, Robby Marshall, Isabella Quereshi,
Zach Gunsell, Dan Birch, Bram Kincheloe, Elecia Strauss, Seth Paris, Kristina
Hoffman, Andrew Capra and Salvador Santana, evidence. These graduates, and many
more, were selected for prestigious musical performance groups like the
International Monterey High School All-star Jazz Band, California High School
All-State Band, California High School All-State Concert Band, the San Francisco
Jazz High School Allstars and attend a number of institutions such as Oberlin
College, Sarah Lawrence, Berklee School of Music, the New School to Cal Arts,
Manhattan School, NYU, USC and UCLA or performing professionally with such names as
Bill Watrus, Mingus Big Band, and Greg Tardy. The array of award-winning students
from Miraflores have performed in such events as the Duke Ellington Festival,
Monterey Jazz Festival, the International Association of Jazz Educators'
Convention, San Jose Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Rafael's
Italian Street Painting Festival, et al.
You can hear more of Marcia's music at www.mee-j.com. Look for Miget and listen with
your Heart to Discovery.

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