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2010 Artist Of the Year
Ron Beatty
Feburary 10, 1932 - May 25, 2010
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Brentwood Art Wine & Jazz Festival Entertainment Schedule

Saturday - August 28, 2010

11:00am-12:00pm	....................Liberty High School Big Band Director Carey Hurst

12:00pm-1:00pm	....................Heritage High School Big Band Director Steve Ernest

1:00pm-3:00pm	....................Raul Ramirez Latin Jazz Quintet Featuring Jennifer Lee

3:00pm-5:00pm	....................Larry Vann

5:00pm-7:00pm	....................Victor Little Jazz Quartet

7:00pm-9:00pm	....................Delta Wires

Sunday - August 29, 2010

11:00am-1:00pm	....................Darryl Rowe Jazz Quintet Featuring Pete Yellin

1:00pm-3:00pm	....................Anna Maria Flechero Featuring Little Brown Brother

3:00pm-5:00pm	....................Lloyd Gregory

Entertainers

Delta Wires

Saturday’s Headliners

Delta Wires is a Big, high-energy, harmonica & horns blues band which started as a college anthology of blues project in Oakland, CA. 2008 FINALISTS in Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN, out of 100 band representatives from blues societies all over the world. Voted "Best Band" Oakland/East Bay 2008, Oakland Magazine. For years Delta Wires have shared billing with such blues luminaries as Van Morrison, Boz Skaggs, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Lowell Fulson and many others. These elements culminate in this finely-honed presentation of rhythm and blues stylings as an art form. Take one talented Italian city kid with his harmonica, and his boyhood bass-playing buddy, raised in the Oakland/East Bay area - the heart of West Coast Blues - add a virtuoso guitarist and talented 3-piece horn section with Mississippi Delta and Chicago Big Band influences, all driven by a classic “fat back” drum pulse, to create this hybrid of urban sound. Anchor this explosive combination with years of heart, soul and sweat on stage and you've got a definitive representation of a generation of the Bay Area music scene.
"a tough, rocking, socking band, knocking out crowds...the WIRES are burning up! " -Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle

Raul Ramirez Latin Jazz Quintet

Originally from Peru, Raul Ramirez started playing the drums at the age of 5, and worked extensively doing studio work and live performances with many international artists and local bands before moving to the USA in 1973. Since then, he has been a very active performer and one of the most versatile percussionists in the Bay Area. His mastery of different styles including jazz, fusion, Latin jazz, Brazilian jazz, and South American music has helped him to travel around the world performing with the very best Latin jazz artists.He has recorded with Merl Saunders, Mad and Eddie Duran, Denise Perrier, Lady Memphis, Frank Jackson, Etta Jones, Eric Shifrin, Frankie Kelly, and many others. He has performed with Etta Jones, George Duke, Pete Escovedo, Susana Baca and many others. Raul teaches music at Brookfield Child Development Center in Oakland and performs with his trio all over the Bay Area.

Raul Will Feature a Singer With Soul

The captivating sounds of Jennifer Lee

A provocative blend of innocence and sophistication — that’s Jennifer Lee. While presenting herself with great style and class, Jennifer maintains a warm and unpretentious demeanor, which enables her to connect deeply with her audience. "Connection is what it’s all about," says Jennifer. "Connection with my band and connection with the listener. That’s what creates the magic. The deeper the connection, the more magical the experience for everyone involved." And connect she does, with sincerity and a perpetual sense of wonder.

Larry Vann

    Larry Vann has made an impressive mark on the Bay Area music scene over the years with his authentic, piercing, all-encompassing musical technique. One listen to his compelling, penetrating and intoxicating grooves clearly demonstrates why he has been in such huge demand for sessions and tours with the likes of Elvin Bishop and Merl Saunders.
    Vann's resume reads like a “Who's Who” list, having toured and recorded with those musicians listed above, as well as The Whispers, Martha Reeves, The Marvalettes, Charles Brown, Buffy Saint-Marie, Randy Crawford, and many more. His work with the popular San Francisco Bay Area Blues Group, Ron Thompson and the Resistors contributed to the band earning two Bay Area Music Awards.
    His impressive career also includes a motion picture role as a nightclub band member in the Academy Award-nominated “Peggy Sue Got Married”. World tours with jazz pianist Brian Auger and blues harp legend Charlie Musselwhite round out a phenomenal career of music-making.

       Vann’s honors and awards include:
           The Blues Society’s West Coast Hall of Fame, “Blues Drummer of the Year” award
           The Jazz Institute’s “Man of the Year” award.

    He has also had the honor of serving as a Governor on the Governing Board of the San Francisco chapter of The Recording Academy® (GRAMMY).

Victor Little Jazz Quartet

    (PR) In a music career that has spanned over 20 years, Victor Little, a Brentwood local, has established himself as the consummate session bassist who has laid down the low-end musical foundation on recordings and on stage with Patti Austin, Billy Preston, Angela Bofill, Charlie Musselwhite, Mickey Hart, and the legendary Booker T. Jones. Now one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most lauded musical residents steps out into the limelight with the release of his first solo CD, titled "Inner Portrait."
    "Inner Portrait" is a powerful musical journey that features Victor's unparalleled performance and compositional skills on ten original and exhilarating instrumental and hook-laden funky-fusion, rhythm and blues groove-jazz tracks, all of which display his impeccable timing, taste, technique, and tone, inimitably sophisticated soaring soloing skills, and captivating melodies.
    Victor joined forces with a litany of legendary musical talent to create "Inner Portrait," including iconic Santana, Steely Dan, and Parliament/Funkadelic drummer Dennis Chambers, Grammy-Award winning drummer of The Mars Volta, Thomas Pridgen, and the mega-talented keyboardist Ruslan Sirota of the Stanley Clarke Band. "Inner Portrait" was produced by Victor Little, long-time Santana bassist and rhythm guitarist, Myron Dove, and multi-faceted producer/engineer/multi-instrumentalist, Randy Emata, who has performed, collaborated, written and/or recorded with Lou Reed, Bob Weir, Aaron Neville, and Chaka Khan.

Darryl Rowe Jazz Quintet

Featuring Pete Yellin

Darryl Rowe has been a presence in the San Francisco Bay area jazz scene for two decades, with appearances at Keystone Korner, the De Anza Hotel, Yoshi's, and the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. He has worked with Woody Herman, Dexter Gordon, Sergio Mendez, Bobby McFerrin, and Patrice Rushin. His voice moves easily from jazz standards to R&B and soul stylings. Darryl has put together some of the best Jazz Sidemen in the San Francisco Bay Area: Alto Sax, Pete Yellin, Percussionsist Bob Belanski, Bassist Geoff Neighbor, Pianist Chris Felton. Darryl’s vocal stylings are reminiscent of the famed Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Otis Redding, and Marvin Gaye.
Featured with Darryl is alto saxophonist and educator Pete Yellin. Pete is a native New Yorker who has toured and recorded with many of the seminal names in jazz, among them Joe Henderson (a member of Henderson's sextet in the 60s and 70s), Tito Puente, Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, Eddie Palmieri, Machito, Mario Bausa and Maynard Ferguson.

Anna Maria Flechero

Featuring Little Brown Brother

    Anna Maria Flechero descends from African-American and Filipino heritage, she was born in San Francisco and resides in the area still to this day.
    Along with others, it was a natural progression that led Anna Maria to form a 13-piece Latin jazz band that, which performed at concerts on the same bill as such heavyweights as Santana, Pete Escovedo, Malo, and Graham Central Station. After many successful performances, Anna Maria ventured out as a solo artist and eventually was described as a "modern day blues singer" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
    Continuing her musical journey, Anna Maria performed as a solo artist in Japan. Accompanying herself on the acoustic piano, she composed and performed her own originals and stylized many well-known standards. While in Japan, Anna Maria met the legendary pianist Cedar Walton and had the great opportunity to perform with his trio, which included renowned drummer, Billy Higgins.
    Upon returning to the United States, Anna Maria turned the spotlight on herself, working full-time during the day and recording at night. In October 2004 she released her debut CD, Journey into the Fourteenth Hour. Sheldon Nunn of Jazz review describes this release the best, "This CD is an articulate and serious expression of vocal jazz at its finest...In the traditional sense of what vocal jazz should be about, Ms. Flechero takes listeners on a magic carpet ride towards musical genius...With a voice that has semblances of Sarah Vaughn." In 2007, Anna Maria was honored by receiving the "2007 Jazz Group of the Year" award from the Bay Area Blues Society.
    Today, the measure of Anna Maria is culminated by her latest work Within the Fourteenth Hour. This CD features 10 well-known pop and jazz standards and one original by Anna Maria. Even though this CD touches on the well-known, Anna Maria masterfully articulates each storyline with unique delivery and original arrangements, giving these well-placed standards a breath of new life, coupled with her original track "Pretty Soon." Within the Fourteenth Hour is a stunning voyage into the creative and soulful mind of Anna Maria.

Lloyd Gregory

    Lloyd Gregory, a popular entertainer on the San Francisco/Bay Area music scene for several decades, has an instrumental sound that may be the epitome of smooth, but it also contains subtle elements of classic soul music due to his early career as an R&B performer, especially the years he spent touring extensively while serving as the musical director for The Ballads, Natural Four and Jesse James, and performing on their albums.
    Gregory also has recorded with Martha Reeves, MC Smooth and Freddie Stewart ( Sly & The Family Stone); and has performed onstage with Rodney Franklin, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Gerald Albright, Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), Freda Payne, The Dells, and Lowell Fulsom.
    Gregory Lloyd’s albums show his versatility. His debut album Wonderful -- which received heavy airplay nationwide and climbed the jazz charts in the top music industry radio publications Radio & Records and The Gavin Report -- featured contemporary jazz with some R&B and funk elements. "Only For You" continued in that vein with some tunes featuring his acoustic guitar playing and others showcasing Lloyd Gregory on a solid-body electric. His third album was a change of pace as the title, Solo Guitar, indicates. The CD features Lloyd Gregory alone on acoustic playing standards like “Sophisticated Lady” and “Ain’t Misbehavin” for audiences that have come to know that side of him from his solo concerts. But Lloyd Gregory most often performs live with an ensemble, and many of those musicians make appearances on his new Free Fallin disc (on the Integy Entertainment label). However, on the album Lloyd Gregory primarily plays his Ovation Custom Legend round-back acoustic guitar while at concerts with his band he likes to rock a bit harder and usually he plays a Yamaha electric.
    Lloyd Gregory will be joined on stage with Janice Maxie Reed, keyboards, Billy “shoes” Johnson, drums, Joe Thomas, “Grammie Nominee,” bass, Bob Stewart, sax, James Henry, percussion, & possibly Glen Pearson, piano, (toured with Bobbi Mcferrin). All these wonderful musicians have performed and/or recorded with some of the best musicians in and outside the San Francisco Bay Area.

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