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Press Release Summary: North Bay Saxophonist performing at 10th Anniversary Event



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Contact: Miraflores Music
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info@mee-j.com 8 September 2008




Miraflores Music’s Miget To Perform With Dr. Anthony Brown And The Asian American
Orchestra

North Bay Saxophonist performing at 10th Anniversary Event


On Thursday, September 11 at Yoshi’s Night Club in San Francisco North Bay
saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform two shows with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian
American Orchestra.
A mutual admiration society Ms. Miget has been a consistent presence performing and
recording with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra since 2004. Over
the last four years Marcia has performed this big band’s unique repertoire at
Monterey, Stern Grove, and Fillmore Jazz Festivals.
With skills that cross multiple genres she performs with the Voices of Latin Rock
(most recently receiving two standing ovations at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater) with
performance credits including Wayne Wallace’s Rhythm and Rhyme, the Northern
California Lighthouse Singers 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and
Stephen Roberts, the Montclair Women’s Big Band and Carlos Santana. She’s played at
several 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 with legendary Bebop pianist, Freddie Redd. 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.

Celebrating their ten-year history with the release of a new commemorative CD
entitled “Ten\" on Tuesday, August 26, the Yoshi\'s event inaugurates the AAO’s
innovative annual home season. For the Yoshi\'s shows, the AAO will be performing
selections from their trilogy of homages to American composers, Duke Ellington/Billy
Strayhorn (\"Far East Suite\"), Thelonious Monk (\"Monk\'s Moods\"), and George Gershwin
(\"Rhapsodies\"). The performance will feature guitarist Terrence Brewer, saxophonist
Hafez Modirzadeh, with other guest artists. The AAO grew out of a project funded by
reparations money allocated by Congress with an assemblage of players including
bassist Mark Izu, who also plays Chinese mouth organ; Hong Wang, on reed trumpet,
erhu (two-string Chinese violin), and traditional Chinese percussion; Yangqin Zhao
on Chinese hammered dulcimer; trombonists Wayne Wallace and Dave Martell; reed
players Melecio Magdaluyo, and Masaru Koga; and trumpeters Henry Hung and Geechi
Taylor and with Creative Director, Dr. Anthony Brown, on drums.

Yoshi’s Night Club, 1330 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115 415-655-5600
Tickets are available at Yoshi’s, check link for times and pricing.

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