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10th Annual Jazz Organ Fellowship With Matthew Whitaker Trio And Brian Charette at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest at Plaza De César Chávez
Courtesy of Massimo Chisessi | Posted on June 4, 2018
Where
Plaza De César Chávez
San Jose Jazz Summer Fest
170 S Market St
San Jose, CA
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When
Sat, August 11, 2018
7:30 pm
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Thanks to Hammond B-3 evangelist Pete Fallico’s world-renowned commitment to the instrument, organ concerts have been a San Jose Jazz staple. 2018 Summer Fest is no exception, with the 10th Annual Organ Fellowship featuring Matthew Whitaker and Brian Charette, a pair of contrasting yet brilliant players.
A heralded child prodigy, high school student Matthew Whitaker began teaching himself to play organ at age nine. At 13, he became the youngest artist to be endorsed by Hammond in the program’s 80+ year history. Whitaker currently studies classical piano and drums at the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School of the Lighthouse Guild in New York City, the only community music school for the blind and visually impaired in the US, and attends the Manhattan School of Music’s Precollege Jazz Program....