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IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-c0" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Davis High
School Music Department Presents<span></span></span></p>

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JAZZ INVITATIONAL<span></span></span></p>

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TRUMPETER TOM PERON<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-c0" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">THURSDAY,
APRIL 13 AT THE BRUNELLE THEATER, 7:30PM<span></span></span></p>

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DONATION AT THE DOOR: $5.00 STUDENT, $7.00 ADULT, $20.00 FAMILY<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-c0" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">The
award-winning DHS Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Thomas Slabaugh II,
will present a concert featuring music by Grammy award winner Maria Schneider,
Bill Holman, Benny Carter, Radiohead, and Lester Young. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">The ensemble will also showcase our
award-winning combos in performance on music by jazz icons Thelonious Monk,
Antônio Carlos Jobim, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strayhorn"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Billy Strayhorn</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,28,28)">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Duke Ellington</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,28,28)">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">Charlie Parker,
"Dizzy" Gillespie, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_Bonf%C3%A1"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Luiz Bonfá</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">, and <span style="color:black">Clifford Brown.<span></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">The concert will conclude with
guest artist Tom Peron featured on “Bye Bye Blackbird” (in the style made
famous by Miles Davis) and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,28,28)">“Perdido”, as made famous by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Duke Ellington</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,28,28)">’s band. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,28,28)">Teacher and performer Tom Peron has a very successful career,
performing with the great pianist Jessica Williams in the 1980’s before forming
another successful group with San Francisco drummer </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Bud Spangler. Since the early
1980’s, Tom Peron and his groups have performed for audiences at the Monterey
Jazz Festival, KRML's Jazz Store in Carmel, Yoshi's, Pearl's, Heart & Soul,
and the Museum of Modern Art, all in San Francisco. In addition to his busy
performance schedule, Tom Peron also teaches at Watermelon Music in Davis and
at the University of the Pacific.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Phil
Elwood, music critic for the<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black">San Francisco Examiner</span></em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, has written, "As for
trumpeter/composer Peron, one is encouraged to say, 'just listen,' and move on
- astonished at his playing, versatility, imagination and technical facility. Master
of his horn, with 'good ears,' as Lester Young would have said, Peron has
created his own style, his own sound, out of jazz roots. Very few trumpeters
out there are Peron's equal, let alone his better,"<span></span></span></p>

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