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Third Thursday: Jazz and Beyond

5 – 9 PM
Tickets are $5 after 5 PM (free to members)

San Jose Jazz and San Jose Museum of Art team up on a unique event featuring music and art—it’s the perfect kickoff on Winter Fest’s first night. Museum galleries will be open from 5–9 PM, with access to all current exhibitions including The Propeller Group and Crossroads: American Scene Prints from Thomas Hart Benton to Grant Wood, at a special entrance fee of $5.

At 6 PM, our programming in the Museum’s Wendell Center begins with an interview with celebrated jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut, who will be performing at Cafe Stritch later in the evening. We’ll fill the Museum with music by guitarist Mason Razavi at 6:30 PM, the SJZ High School All Stars U19s at 7 PM and Summer Fest 2017 Jazz Beyond hit Mino Yanci at 8 PM. You’ll even have the opportunity to try your hand at Sound Painting, using electro-conductive paints to create artworks you can actually “play.” Food and drink are available for purchase.


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PERSONNEL

Mason Razavi, guitar

SJZ High School All Stars U19s
James Anderson, drums
(Valley Christian High School)
Paul Heo, bass
(Leland High School)
Carlos Solorzano, guitar
(Willow Glen High School)
Shane Turner, piano
(Menlo-Atherton High School)
Tim Youngman, tenor sax
(Prospect High School)

Mino Yanci
Damani Rhodes, keys
Stixx, drums
Brandon Kendricks, guitar
Christian Moore, bass


Related Programming

The Propeller Group

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The Propeller Group anchors its ambitious projects in Vietnam’s history and its paradoxical present. Based in Vietnam and Los Angeles, the art collective extends its reach to address global phenomena, from street culture to international commerce to traditions shared across cultures. In multifaceted projects, The Propeller Group blurs the lines between modes of cultural production and embraces the formats of branding campaigns, television commercials, Hollywood movies, and music videos to explore the complex ideologies that drive global commerce, war, and cultural and historical memory. One highlight of the exhibition is The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music (2014), a visually lush film that follows funerary traditions of the Mekong Delta. It combines documentary footage, staged reenactments, and fantastical scenes to explore slippages between real and imagined rituals shared across cultures. The film is accompanied by sculptures inspired by traditional Vietnamese funerary objects: a carved jackfruit wood snake with gold fangs and an adorned water buffalo skull.