Freddie Hubbard News

Some time back a student of music, Chris, wrote to me an email, asking a very interesting question: "Why is it that some jazz musicians preferred to adopt funk instead of jazz-rock when the transition took place." There were more sub-queries, but this itself is a calls for a thesis, just as he was writing one.

The Sierra College Music Department is proud to present Jazz Night on Saturday, May 11th, 2013 at 7:30pm in Dietrich Theatre on the Sierra College Rocklin Campus.

Raritan Valley Community College's Student Jazz Ensemble will perform in concert Thursday, May 2, at 8 p.m., in the Welpe Theatre at the College's Branchburg Campus.

Joe Chambers, born in Stoneacre Virginia in 1942, is a veteran drummer of some of the crucial Blue Note sessions of the '60s which defined a whole jazz era.

Friday: REO Speedwagon and Styx headline "The Midwest Rock and Roll Express," a retro-rock package with Ted Nugent opening.