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HEADLINERS: Cobb will perform
on campus with “Cobb’s Mob.”
Brown (right) will open the festival.
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On June 19, Tony and Grammy
award-winning R&B pioneer Ruth Brown will open the
annual Stanford Jazz Festival. Brown, who turned Atlantic
Records into “the house that Ruth built”
in the 1950s, is rocking (no chair in sight) at age
70, and festival organizers expect a performance worthy
of a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
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Stanford Jazz Workshop
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Before the spotlights fade on August 7, dozens of other
jazz legends—including drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist
Ray Drummond, sax man Dave Liebman and piano great Harold
Mabern—will present more than 50 concerts and
special events in a festival that is widely hailed as
one of the best on the West Coast. Cobb, who will perform
with “Cobb’s Mob,” is the last surviving
musician featured on Miles Davis’s “Kind
of Blue,” the bestselling jazz album of all time.
Jazz greats and up-and-comers also will teach more
than 700 students, from teens to octogenarians, at the
Stanford Jazz Workshop.
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