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Press Release Summary: North Bay Saxophonist performing with AAO at University of
Illinois

Press Release Body: Contact: Miraflores Music
415.457.5365
info@mee-j.com 22 October 2008


MIRAFLORES' MIGET TO TOUR WITH DR. ANTHONY BROWN AND THE ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA

North Bay Saxophonist performing with AAO at University of Illinois

On Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm North Bay saxophonist Marcia Miget will perform
with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra as part of the Marquee Jazz
Series at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana's Foellinger Great Hall.
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, last
year playing reeds on the AAO's tenth anniversary cd, '10'. Over the last four years
Marcia has performed this big band's unique repertoire at Yoshi's (San Francisco),
the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Monterey, Stern Grove, and Fillmore Jazz
Festivals.
Having skills that cross multiple genres she performs regularly with the Voices of
Latin Rock with performance credits including Wayne Wallace's Rhythm and Rhyme, the
San Francisco All Star Big Band, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th
Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts, the James Cleveland
Choir and the Montclair Women's Big Band. 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). With a performance pedigree that 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
seminal work, 'Discovery', has a roster of prominent Bay Area performers in
attendance, such as Paul van Wagenigen, Gary Brown, David Belove, Rebecca Mauleon,
Frank Martin and John Worley.

A composer, percussionist, Guggenheim fellow, former director of the Smithsonian's
Jazz Oral History Project, past Grammys Chapter President Dr. Anthony Brown brings
personal and academic expertise as a BlAsian by melding Eastern and Western sounds
and sensibilities. Using Asian instruments in a Big Band idiom the AAO, under the
direction of Dr. Brown, delivers reimagined, redefined Thelonious Monk, Duke
Ellington, and George Gershwin works on the erhu (two-string Chinese violin),
shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and suona (Chinese trumpet). Downbeat magazine rated
Monk's Moods a "five-star masterpiece" and one of the four best CDs of 2003. The AAO
grew out of a project 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 with
Creative Director, Dr. Anthony Brown, on drums.

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This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts
Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that 'a great
nation deserves great art', with additional contributions from Illinois Arts
Council, General Mills Foundation, and Land O'Lakes Foundation.



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