Brasil Jazz Festa

02/23/2025

It’s a wrap! The 16th Brasil Jazz Festa was pure magic last night. More highlights coming soon. Thanks to all who came!

02/22/2025

Claudia Villela and band working out the setlist for tomorrow’s Festa.

02/21/2025

Brasil Jazz Festa weekend is upon us! THIS Saturday Feb 22nd 7PM at Dizzy’s Jazz San Diego. Almost sold out!

Peter DeLuke was 15 when he made his professional concert debut in 1945. He will celebrate his 95th birthday Sunday at the all-ages Dizzy’s with The Mellotones, his brassy Duke Ellington trib…

11/21/2023

15th Annual Brasil Jazz Festa is a wrap!

11/19/2023

All rehearsed and ready for the show tonight! OI GENTE! 15th Annual Brasil Jazz Festa is SOLD OUT! Limited standing room only available from 6PM. $30 cash at door.

10/28/2023

Just Announced! Master Class with Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini on Sat Nov 18th 11AM-1PM at Mission Bay High School, San Diego. All proceeds benefit Mission Bay Music Program. $10 students, $20 general admission.

10/16/2023

2023 Festa Artist Spotlight: The Danny Green Trio

Over the past decade, jazz pianist and Origin Records recording artist Danny Green has earned recognition as a bandleader and as a composer with a gift for spinning supple, absorbing narratives. Green’s growing portfolio of vibrant sounds – an enchanting mix of jazz, classical, and Brazilian rhythms – has captured the attention of critics around the world, including DownBeat Magazine, Jazziz, San Diego Union Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Public Radio International.

It’s no small wonder that Green hasearned two San Diego Music awards for Best Jazz Album and an additional award for Best Jazz Artist. His long-time trio includes bassist Justin Grinnell and drummer Julien Cantelm, noteworthy musicians in their own right, and together they have developed a nearly psychic connection as they perform Green’s original compositions and jazz standards. Green takes listeners on a journey that is equal parts introspective and exuberant, and always compelling.

Since its formation in 2010, the trio has performed at notable venues, series, and festivals across the county, including the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, the Telluride Jazz Festival, Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), The Blue Whale (Los Angeles), KSDS Jazz 88.3’s Jazz Live (San Diego), CSU Summer Arts Monterey (residency), the Integrity Jazz Festival (Minot, ND), Frankie's Jazz Club (Vancouver), The Sound Room (Oakland), Tula’s Jazz Club (Seattle), and An Die Musik Live! (Baltimore).

Composed by Danny GreenDanny Green - PianoJustin Grinnell - BassJulien Cantelm - DrumsFor more information, visit http://www.dannygreen.net

10/15/2023

2023 Festa Artist Spotlight: Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini

Trombonist and singer/songwriter Natalie Cressman and composer, guitarist, and singer Ian Faquini have created a uniquely intimate duo collaboration, drawing from impressionism, jazz, and the great Brazilian songwriting tradition. Their original material features songs in three different languages and encompasses a vast spectrum of musical ground. With the warm instrumentation of acoustic guitar and trombone and two-part vocal harmonies hugging the Brazilian-accented Portuguese, Cressman & Faquini weave their musical voices together to create a fully orchestrated sound befitting a much larger ensemble. Together Cressman and Faquini have played their music across the US in venues ranging from intimate house concerts to performing arts halls and jazz festival stages such as the Monterey Jazz Festival, and have performed internationally in Brazil, Japan, Portugal, Spain, and Italy.

Cressman has spent the past eleven years touring the jam band circuit as a horn player and vocalist with Phish's Trey Anastasio, while also collaborating with many illustrious figures on the New York City jazz scene. When she’s not performing her own music, Cressman can be found collaborating with some of the most illustrious figures in rock, funk, jazz and beyond, which have included Phish, Big Gigantic, Carlos Santana, Es**rt, Wycliffe Gordon, Nicholas Payton, Anat Cohen, The Motet, and Umphrey's McGee.

Born in Brasília and raised in Berkeley, Faquini was a member of the renowned Berkeley High School Jazz program before going on to study at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley and, immediately after graduating, joined the faculty there. He has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Brazil and the United States and has shared the stage and recording studio with such names as Guinga, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Spok, Lee Konitz, Fleurine, among many others.

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Natalie Cressman (trombone) / Ian Faquini (guitar)Setting Rays Of Summer out 4/5/19 Pre-order now at https://nataliecressman.bandcamp.com/album/setting-rays-...