Jazz scene heats up with awards and upcoming coffeehouse Jazz scene heats up with awards and upcoming coffeehouse CSUB's Jazz Coffeehouse begins the spring quarter with a performance by Cal Arts' trumpet phenomena Wadada Leo Smith, along with the CSUB musicians Kris Tiner, Jenny Maybee, Brian Palla and Kyle Burnham. CSUb jazz vocalists will also perform.
Tickets are available at the door.
On the CSUB music scene as well, three CSUB music students came back last weekend from UC Berkeley with awards from the annual Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival. Taking top honors in piano and piano composing is Jenny Maybee. Also winning as best composer in trumpeting is Tiner, who also picked up first place in trumpeting. James Dethlefson won as best bass player, and also was awarded a full scholarship to the Stanford Jazz Workshop this summer. Tiner and Maybee also did sets with their bands, playing mostly their compositions.