Pacific Jazz Combos
Out to Lunch!
Pacific Jazz Collective
Joe Mazzaferro, director
Maiden Voyage Interplay
Sean Britt, director
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
Redcorda Me (1963)
Prince Albert (1955)
Fried Bananas (1969)
14, 2025, 7:30 PM
Kenny Dorham (1924-1972)
Dorham
Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)
Out to Lunch!
Kai Hatton, trumpet
Ethan Karatov, baritone saxophone
Bergen Finley, piano
Michael Andersen, bass
Wesley Shafer, drums
Joe Mazzaferro, director
Blue Bossa (1963)
Dorham
My Ideal (1930)
Take the “A” Train (1939)
Maiden Voyage
Ray Cruz, alto saxophone
Eric Luman, trumpet
Alex Maldonado, piano
Dylan Crawford, drums
Hunter Kruse, drums
Sean Britt, director
Leo Robin (1895–1984)
Newell Chase (1904–1955)
Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967)
Four on Six (1960)
My Ship (1941)
O Pato (1960)
Honeysuckle Rose (1928)
Interplay
Alejandro Villalobos, trumpet
Don Parker, guitar
Leo Milano, piano
Victor Camacho, bass
Pete Norman, drums
Sean Britt, director
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (1944)
Highschoolish (2010)
Pacific Jazz Collective
Miranda Duarte, voice
Alex Maldonado, trumpet
Bergen Finley, guitar
Kyle Saelee, bass
Victor Cyrus-Franklin, drums
Joe Mazzaferro, director
Wes Montgomery (1923–1968)
Kurt Weill (1900–1950)
Jayme Silva (unknown)
Neuza Teixeira (unknown)
Thomas “Fats” Waller (1904–1943)
Cole Porter (1891–1964)
Walter Smith III (b. 1980)
Joe Mazzaferro is the associate director of jazz studies and associate professor of practice in jazz at University of the Pacific. As a trumpeter, educator, and composer, Mazzaferro is active in the Northern California jazz scene and in demand as a guest artist and clinician across the United States. Mazzaferro’s debut release In Terms of . . . (2017)—which features saxophonist Jeff Clayton along with special guests, drummer Carl Allen and pianist Donald Brown—received high praise from critics and was described as “vintage hard bop with maturity” (George Harris, Jazz Weekly).
Mazzaferro has gained critical acclaim as a composer and arranger and has arranged works for pianist Edward Simon, drummer Carl Allen, trumpeter Terell Stafford, and vocalist Jazzmeia Horn. In 2019 he contributed arrangements to Smoke Session Record’s release Bird at 100, commemorating the centennial of Charlie Parker’s birth, which featured alto saxophonists Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson, and Gary Bartz. Mazzaferro’s July 2020 big-band release Talk About It! Live @ The CLARA features exclusively his arrangements and compositions. Mazzaferro is a graduate of University of the Pacific (BM, music education) and the University of Tennessee (MM, jazz and studio music).
Massachusetts native Sean Britt became the first guitarist for the Brubeck Institute Fellowship program at University of the Pacific in 2013. He was a member of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet (currently Pacific Jazz Ambassadors) which Downbeat Magazine named the best undergraduate jazz combo in their Student Awards Poll in 2016. Currently, he serves on Pacific’s jazz studies faculty.
While at Pacific, Britt performed with visiting artists including Christian McBride, Stefon Harris and Chris and Darius Brubeck among others. Britt transferred to The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City where he received his BFA in Jazz Studies. He went on to receive a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 2019.