Join us for the opening night of JazzFest 2024 with an incredible evening led by Bill Cunliffe, Glenn Cashman, and Taryn Ré.
Eclectic, cutting-edge, and contemporary—The Muck’s Jazz Festival returns in Spring of 2024 with new energy.
Eva Scow is a mandolinist and violinist from California. Eva began studying music at a young age, starting on the piano and violin at age 4, and later adding the mandolin at age 8. She has recorded on numerous projects, ranging in styles from R&B, Country, Pop, and Jazz. .
Quarteto Nuevo’s distinctive instrumentation richly colors their music that infuses Western classical, Eastern European folk, Latin and jazz with an organic contemporary feel.
Mix swingin’ grooves, thrilling riffs, sweet and hot vocals, western sensibilities and tons of fun, and you have only begun to describe Cow Bop.
Los Angeles-based pianist and composer Paul Cornish strives to inspire freedom and collaboration in his music and community. Hailing from Houston where he was a student at the prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Cornish was one of seven jazz prodigies worldwide selected to be awarded a full fellowship to attend the esteemed Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz at UCLA.
Trumpeter Wayne Bergeron is a highly sought-after studio and concert musician with a wealth of recording credits to his name. Blessed with a preternaturally high range, clarion tone, and immense technical skill, Bergeron has dominated the commercial trumpet scene since the 1980s.
Bill Cunliffe leads an all star combo in a tribute to the legendary 15 time Grammy-winning Tony Bennett at our annual Jazz Festival Preview.
For more than three decades, conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straightahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources. Sanchez’s reimagining of the jazz canon, as well as his own spirited original compositions, affirms his place at the forefront of Latin Jazz’s trailblazers.
Over his 50-plus-year career, two-time Grammy winner Ernie Watts has recorded and/or toured with the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Elton John, Pat Metheny, and James Brown. A versatile player, Jazz has always been his focus. This performance will feature original pieces by Watts and and his band members along with Jazz classics.
Iconic bassist John B. Williams has performed and/or recorded with Horace Silver, Hugh Masekela, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Burrell, Jon Hendricks, Jimmy Smith, Sir Roland Hanna, Benny Carter, Louie Bellson, Freddie Hubbard, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, and many others. Williams was the house bassist for late night TV icons Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall and was a member of the Nancy Wilson Trio for 25 years.
New West Guitars have developed a reputation as one of the premier jazz guitar ensembles in the world. Featuring guitarists Perry Smith, John Storie, and Will Brahm, they perform exciting originals, jazz standards and popular covers. Their signature sound comes from an innovative style that highlights rhythm, beauty, and virtuosity through combining acoustic and electric guitars.
Roy McCurdy is a living legend, having worked with some of the greatest artists in jazz including Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Nancy Wilson, Art Farmer, and Benny Golson.
Eclectic, cutting-edge, and contemporary—The Muck’s Jazz Festival returns in Spring of 2023 with new energy.
Costa Rican jazz drummer Rodolfo Zuniga and featured vocalist Femi Knight are joined by the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Bill Cunliffe for an energetic program of contemporary, latin, and traditional jazz.
Once again our pep-rally/celebration/thank you to Jazz Fest season ticket holders is the best Valentine's week event in the County. Join us to hear Grammy-winning Jazz piano brilliance from Bill Cunliffe.
For Jazz Fest Season Ticket holders
Four-time Grammy Award Winner Oscar Hernández has long been considered one of the most gifted and prominent pianist/ arrangers on the contemporary Latin, Latin-jazz and salsa music scene.
Invite Only Event.
Performances by trio-KAIT with Kait Dunton. Featuring Jake Reed, Cooper Appelt, and Grammy-winning Jazz piano brilliance from Bill Cunliffe.
Blues and Boogie: A Tribute to Ray Charles, Gene Harris and Ella Fitzgerald
Grammy Award winning Saxophonist Ernie Watts and Imagination with Bill Cunliffe
Tonight Show Alum Tommy Peterson with Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Bill Cunliffe, cond.
GLENN CASHMAN found inspiration for a free-wheeling, compositional approach to saxophone and improvisation in the playing of Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane and his compositions reflect a rainbow of influences.
The buttery voice of Sherry Williams is an oasis in any madness our world offers. When you listen to her you realize immediately that she is a consummate artist - the real thing.
Laura "Lolly" Allen's music "...conjures the lanky, leisurely feel of Milt Jackson, her roomy rambles open up the spiritual spaciousness of Walt Dickerson, and her smooth flair for Latin rhythms recalls Cal Tjader."-- Fred Bouchard (writer for Downbeat Magazine and teacher at Berklee College of Music.)
Francisco Torres is a trombonist and the music director for Poncho Sanchez and has been directing the Latin Jazz ensemble at CSUF.
Initially formed as an homage to the 1959 Cannonball Adderley-John Coltrane landmark album,The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, our group continues to pay tribute to these jazz giants with arrangements and original compositions related to or inspired by Cannonball and/or Coltrane.
