On Monday, August 10, I'll be one of several west coast jazz harmonica players
participating in the Jazz Harmonica Summit in Santa Cruz:

http://www.jazzharmonicasummit.com/

This concert is a first of its kind:

- Features 9 different jazz harmonica players

- Will include a 5-piece jazz harmonica ensemble

- Will be recorded for a DVD

If you were at the Spring SFBayharpers jam, you saw and heard the harmonica
ensemble. Each of its members will also be featured individually:

Damien Masterson, master of Brazilian and Latin jazz

Michael Peloquin - one of the Bay Area's strongest R&B players, equally fluent
on chromatic and overblow diatonic

Steve Malerbi - A mellow master of chromatic jazz

Winslow Yerxa - Combining jazz with celtic and Canaidan traditional influences
in new ways, on chromatic, diatonic, and tremolo harmonicas.

we'll also have:

- 80-plus year old Pete Blasberg, who can still play blistering uptempo bebop

- Michael Polesky up from Los Angeles on his tenor-tuned Renaissance chromatic
(played thru a bullet mic!)

- Slide man Slim, the organiser of the whole event, who plays smooth jazz guitar
in addition to fine chromatic, in a duo bassist/vocalist Penny Hanna.


The concert is timed to occur one day before Jason Ricci's Harmonica Blowoff in
Sacramento, followed by four glorious days of the SPAH Convention. Sacramento is
only a 2 1/2 hour drive from Santa Cruz, so you can fill up the entire week with
great harmonica entertainment!