Pacific Jazz Combos
Rodney Jones, guitar
Keystone Korner
Pacific Jazz Collective
Joe Mazzaferro, director
Jazz Showcase
The Vanguard
Sean Britt, director
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
Whoopin’ Blues
All Blues (1959)
John Casimir (1898–1963)
Miles Davis (1926–1991)
Billie’s Bounce Charlie Parker (1920–1955)
Keystone Korner
Eric Luman and Amalia Silva, trumpets
Ray Cruz, alto saxophone
Kiyoshi Sato, trombone
Joe Mazzaferro, piano
Pete Norman, bass
Hunter Kruse, drum set
Joe Mazzaferro, director
Public Eye (1990)
Jazz Showcase
Kaitlyn Tamondong, vocals
Kamron Qasimi and Kai Hatton, trumpets
Miguel Palma, trombone
Jenna Kalik, vibraphone
Don Parker, guitar/horn
Alex Maldonado, piano
Victor Camacho, bass
Wesley Shafer, drum set
Sean Britt, director
Roy Hargrove (1969-2018)
1999)
The Monster and the Flower Claudio Roditi (1946–2020)
Into Dawn (1990)
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
The Vanguard
Alejandro Villalobos, trumpet
Ethan Karatov, baritone saxophone
Leo Milano, piano
Dylan Crawford, bass
Pete Norman, drum set
Sean Britt, director
Sanctuary (2025)
Honeysuckle Rose (1929)
Letter To Hermione (1968)
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (1940)
Pacific Jazz Collective
Miranda Duarte, voice
Alex Maldonado, trumpet
Bergen Finley, guitar
Michael Andersen, bass
Victor Cyrus-Franklin, drums
Joe Mazzaferro, director
Roy Hargrove (1969–2018)
Jerry Brainin (1916–2000)
Bergen Finley (b. 2003)
Thomas “Fats” Waller (1904–1943)
David Bowie (1947–2016)
Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
Rodney Jones started playing the guitar at age six. In 1976, at the age of twenty, he began touring with Dizzy Gillespie. His first solo album, The Liberation of Contemporary Jazz Guitar, was released by Strata-East in 1977. In 1989, Jones joined the Maceo Parker Band for three years. In 2001, he was hired as a professor at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. In 2007, he joined the faculty of The Juilliard School as a professor of jazz guitar studies. Jones also served as the staff guitarist for the Rosie O’Donnell Show from 1996 to 2002 and the house guitarist for Showtime at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem for nine years. Jones has written commercials and has had more than 125 compositions recorded. Jones is the owner of New Tide Music, Inc., and has led jazz workshops and master classes worldwide.
Jones has toured internationally and performed and recorded with James Brown, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Elvin Jones, Kenny Burrell, Stan Getz, Christian McBride, Stevie Wonder, and others. Also, he served as musical director and producer for Lena Horne, Ernestine Anderson, Gloria Lynne, Ruth Brown, and more. Jones’s albums have been released by Timeless, MusicMasters, Minor Music, Blue Note, HighNote, Savant, 18th and Vine, and his own label.
His discography includes Articulation (1978), When You Feel the Love (1981), Friends (1981), My Funny Valentine (1983), The Unspoken Heart (1992), The “X” Field (1996), Right Now (1996), The Undiscovered Few (1999), Soul Manifesto (2001), Soul Manifesto Live! (2003), Dreams and Stories (2005), A Thousand Small Things (2009), The Journey of Soul (2013), The Resonance of Love (2012), and The Beloved (2017). His book Hip Guitar Lines: The Lines, Fingerings, and Ideas That Will Transform Your Playing was published in 2020.
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 (Bachelor of Music in music education) and the University of Tennessee (Master of Music in 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 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.
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