The Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra Sunday at the Bach

Some of the finest Bay Area musicians and veterans of most famous big bands, such as Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Duke Ellington, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Cab Calloway, continue the big band tradition under the leadership of Mike Vax.

Director Mike Vax played lead and solo trumpet with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, the Clark Terry Big Bad Band, and the U.S. Navy Show Band.  He performed and/or recorded with such greats as Art Pepper, Al Grey, Freddy Hubbard, John Handy, Don Ellis, Don Jacoby, Louie Bellson, Joe Williams, the Four Freshmen, The Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras, and the Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans.

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
307 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
$30.  Tickets at the door. Reservations for members.
Doors Open at 3 PM, Music from 4:30 to 7:30 PM, with intermission.