Pacific Jazz Combos 10-14-2025

Pacific Jazz Combos Out to Lunch!

Pacific Jazz Collective Joe Mazzaferro, director Maiden Voyage Interplay Sean Britt, director

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 7:30 pm Recital Hall

14TH PERFORMANCE OF 2025–26 ACADEMIC YEAR

OC TOBER 14, 2025, 7:30 PM Redcorda Me (1963)

Kenny Dorham (1924-1972)

Prince Albert (1955)

Dorham

Fried Bananas (1969)

Dexter Gordon (1923–1990) Out to Lunch!

Kai Hatton, trumpet Ethan Karatov, baritone saxophone Bergen Finley, piano Michael Andersen, bass Wesley Shafer, drums Joe Mazzaferro, director Dorham

Blue Bossa (1963)

My Ideal (1930)

Leo Robin (1895–1984) Newell Chase (1904–1955)

Take the “A” Train (1939)

Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967) Maiden Voyage Ray Cruz, alto saxophone Eric Luman, trumpet Alex Maldonado, piano Dylan Crawford, drums Hunter Kruse, drums Sean Britt, director

OC TOBER 14, 2025, 7:30 PM Wes Montgomery (1923–1968)

Four on Six (1960) My Ship (1941)

Kurt Weill (1900–1950)

O Pato (1960)

Jayme Silva (unknown) Neuza Teixeira (unknown) Interplay Alejandro Villalobos, trumpet Don Parker, guitar Leo Milano, piano Victor Camacho, bass Pete Norman, drums Sean Britt, director Thomas “Fats” Waller (1904–1943)

Honeysuckle Rose (1928)

Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (1944)

Cole Porter (1891–1964) Walter Smith III (b. 1980)

Highschoolish (2010) Pacific Jazz Collective Miranda Duarte, voice Alex Maldonado, trumpet Bergen Finley, guitar Kyle Saelee, bass Victor Cyrus-Franklin, drums Joe Mazzaferro, director

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Joe Mazzaferro is the associate director of jazz studies and associate professor of practice in jazz at University of the Pacific. As a trumpeter, educator, and composer, Mazzaferro is active in the Northern California jazz scene and in demand as a guest artist and clinician across the United States. Mazzaferro’s debut release In Terms of . . . (2017)—which features saxophonist Jeff Clayton along with special guests, drummer Carl Allen and pianist Donald Brown—received high praise from critics and was described as “vintage hard bop with maturity” (George Harris, Jazz Weekly).

Mazzaferro has gained critical acclaim as a composer and arranger and has arranged works for pianist Edward Simon, drummer Carl Allen, trumpeter Terell Stafford, and vocalist Jazzmeia Horn. In 2019 he contributed arrangements to Smoke Session Record’s release Bird at 100, commemorating the centennial of Charlie Parker’s birth, which featured alto saxophonists Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson, and Gary Bartz. Mazzaferro’s July 2020 big-band release Talk About It! Live @ The CLARA features exclusively his arrangements and compositions. Mazzaferro is a graduate of University of the Pacific (BM, music education) and the University of Tennessee (MM, jazz and studio music).

Massachusetts native Sean Britt became the first guitarist for the Brubeck Institute Fellowship program at University of the Pacific in 2013.

He was a member of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet (currently Pacific Jazz Ambassadors) which Downbeat Magazine named the best undergraduate jazz combo in their Student Awards Poll in 2016.

Currently, he serves on Pacific’s jazz studies faculty.

While at Pacific, Britt performed with visiting artists including Christian McBride, Stefon Harris and Chris and Darius Brubeck among others. Britt transferred to The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City where he received his BFA in Jazz Studies. He went on to receive a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 2019.

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