Bennett Friedman Quartet at Newman Auditorium at Santa Rosa Junior College

The Music Department of Santa Rosa Junior College presents a jazz concert by the Bennett Friedman Quartet on Friday, Nov. 4, at 8 PM in Newman Auditorium on the SRJC campus. Pianist Joe Gilman, bassist Jeff Denson, and drummer Hamir Atwal will be featured. Admission to the event is $10 general and $5 for students and seniors. There is a $4 fee for parking on campus. Proceeds from the concert benefit the SRJC Foundation Jazz Studies Fund.

The performance will feature works of Charles Mingus, Chick Corea, Toots Thielmans and others.

Featured on piano, Dr. Joe Gilman is a full-time professor of music at American River College in Sacramento, an adjunct professor of jazz studies at CSU Sacramento, and a longtime associate of the Brubeck Institute and the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Joe was the music director of Capital Jazz Project from 1997 to 2011. He has received bachelor's degrees in classical piano and jazz studies at Indiana University, a master's degree in jazz and the contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music, and a doctoral degree in education from the University of Sarasota....

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The Music Department of Santa Rosa Junior College presents a jazz concert by the Bennett Friedman Quartet on Friday, Nov. 4, at 8 PM in Newman Auditorium on the SRJC campus. Pianist Joe Gilman, bassist Jeff Denson, and drummer Hamir Atwal will be featured. Admission to the event is $10 general and $5 for students and seniors. There is a $4 fee for parking on campus. Proceeds from the concert benefit the SRJC Foundation Jazz Studies Fund.

The performance will feature works of Charles Mingus, Chick Corea, Toots Thielmans and others.

Featured on piano, Dr. Joe Gilman is a full-time professor of music at American River College in Sacramento, an adjunct professor of jazz studies at CSU Sacramento, and a longtime associate of the Brubeck Institute and the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Joe was the music director of Capital Jazz Project from 1997 to 2011. He has received bachelor's degrees in classical piano and jazz studies at Indiana University, a master's degree in jazz and the contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music, and a doctoral degree in education from the University of Sarasota.
Joe was primary pianist with jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson from September 2006 until Bobby’s death this year, and pianist with the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra since 2010. He has also performed professionally with Eddie Harris, Joe Locke, Chris Botti, Nicholas Payton, Charles McPherson, Wycliffe Gordon, David "Fathead" Newman, and Slide Hampton, and has recorded with Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Jeff Watts, and Tootie Heath.
Dr. Gilman has twice been an International Jazz Ambassador through the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and USIA, traveling to West Africa in 1999 and East and Southern Africa in 2000.

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