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Joe Mazzaferro

Trumpeter, Educator, Composer, and Arranger Joe Mazzaferro has been active in the Sacramento, Stockton, and Central Valley jazz scenes since 2002. His formal studies include a Bachelor's of Music in Music Education from the University of the Pacific and a Master’s of Music in Jazz and Studio Music from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the jazz program and arranged regularly for the UT Jazz Ensemble.

After holding numerous adjunct positions at various academic institutions, Joe became the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at California State University Stanislaus in 2012 where he teaches various jazz courses and directs the CSU Stanislaus Jazz Ensemble. In addition to his role as Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Joe also serves as the trumpet instructor at both CSU Stanislaus and San Joaquin-Delta College and regularly teaches at Cazadero Music Camp and the Brubeck Institutes Summer Jazz Colony, and is an active member of the California Alliance for Jazz. While at the University of Tennessee, Joe studied improvisation and composition with former Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers pianist Donald Brown, Mark Boling, and Vance Thompson. As an active freelance performer and collaborator, Joe has had the opportunity to ­­perform with many jazz greats, including Dave Brubeck, Christian McBride, Stefon Harris, Eddie Gomez, Donny McCaslin, Donald Brown, Wycliffe Gordon, Jeff Clayton, Ingrid Jensen, Lewis Nash, Montez Coleman, and Jim Snidero. In recent performance opportunities, Joe has had the privilege of performing the Miles Davis masterpiece Birth of the Cool with Gunther Schuller at the 2013 Brubeck Festival and was a part of the series “Remembering James Williams & Mulgrew Miller” with pianist Donald Brown’s Quartet at the 58th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Joe also performs regularly at Take 5 Jazz Club in Stockton and currently serves as the Musical Director and Co-Founder of the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra. Joe has gained critical acclaim as a composer and arranger. His works have been performed by many prominent jazz musicians which such as Ingrid Jensen, Claudia Villela, Dave Pietro, and Patrick Langham as well as the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra, University of Tennessee Jazz Ensemble, and the Tommy Igoe Big Band. Two of his latest compositions “Song For Fizz” and “Dark Heartbeat” will be featured on alto saxophonist Patrick Langham’s forthcoming album East to West due out in December 2014. In 2017, Joe released his debut album IN TERMS OF... on his own label Joe Mazz Music.

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Beth Duncan: I'm All Yours

Read "I'm All Yours" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


As fertile and durable as the Great American Songbook is, like fossil fuels it is not an infinite and forgiving loam. It is a splendid jumping-off point, both historically and contemporarily, for the swan dive into jazz. At least tangentially, it also serves as the creative spark, igniting new, more progressive composition. This is where Sacramento-based singer Beth Duncan and, by extension, composer & lyricist Martine Tabilio deftly enter the picture. Duncan's previous two recordings Orange Colored Sky ...

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Trumpeter Joe Mazzaferro Releases Debut CD "In Terms Of..." with Jeff Clayton, Donald Brown and Carl Allen

Trumpeter Joe Mazzaferro Releases Debut CD "In Terms Of..." with Jeff Clayton, Donald Brown and Carl Allen

Source: Craig Neely

On February, 9th 2018 Sacramento CA native, trumpeter, composer, educator and arranger Joe Mazzaferro released his debut CD In Terms Of... on his own Joe Mazz Music label with special guest Jeff Clayton and featuring Donald Brown and Carl Allen! Joe Mazzaferro was raised in a musical household. As Joe states “both of my parents were musicians and me and my 3 sisters all played. My father is a retired high school band director (who still teaches) as well as ...

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I'm All Yours

Saccat Records
2020

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In Terms Of...

Joe Mazz Music
2018

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