Pacific Jazz Combos Britt Combo Two Britt Combo One Sean Britt, director Mazzaferro Combo Pacific Jazz Collective Joe Mazzaferro, director
Monday, October 5, 2026 7:30 pm Recital Hall
10TH PERFORMANCE OF 2026–27 ACADEMIC YEAR
OC TOBER 5, 2026, 7:30 PM Speak Low (1943)
Kurt Weil (1900–1950)
Recorda Me (1963)
Joe Henderson (1937–2001)
Epistrophy (1957)
Thelonious Monk (1917–1982) Britt Combo Two Alejandro Villalobos, trumpet Santo Avalos, tenor saxophone Sean Britt, guitar Dylan Crawford, bass Cole Long, drum set
Just Friends (1931)
John Klenner (1899–1955) Sam Lewis (1885–1959)
Contemplation (1967)
McCoy Tyner (1938–2020)
Ceora (1965)
Lee Morgan (1938–1972) Britt Combo One Kiyoshi Sato, trombone Caleb Narayan, alto saxophone Logan Rodriguez, piano Pete Norman, bass David Peters, drum set
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OC TOBER 5, 2026, 7:30 PM Au Privave (1951)
Charlie Parker (1920–1955)
Star Eyes (1943)
Gene De Paul (1919–1988) Don Raye (1909–1985)
A Night in Tunisia 1(942)
Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993)
Mazzaferro Combo Julian Rayray, trumpet Ray Cruz, alto saxophone Angel Gonzalez Murillo, piano Victor Camacho, bass Pete Norman and Wes Shafer, drum set, vibraphone
Half Nelson (1947)
Miles Davis (1926–1991)
But Beautiful (1947)
Jimmy Van Heusen (1913–1990)
If I Were a Bell (1950)
Frank Laesser (1910–1969)
Day in, Day Out (1939)
Rube Bloom (1902–1976) Pacific Jazz Collective Amara Lin, voice Jack Young, trumpet Ethan Karatov, baritone saxophone David Nnamdi-Ukpabi, piano Amaris Medina Martinez, bass Victor Cyrus-Franklin, drum set
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Massachusetts native Sean Britt is a lecturer in jazz guitar at University of the Pacific. He became the first guitarist for Pacific's Brubeck Institute Fellowship program 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. While at Pacific, Britt performed with visiting artists including Christian McBride, Stefon Harris and Chris and Darius Brubeck. Britt transferred to The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City where he received a Bachelor of fine Arts in jazz studies. He went on to receive a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 2019. Joe Mazzaferro is interim 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 (Bachelor of Music in music education) and the University of Tennessee (Master of Music in jazz and studio music).
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