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Saturday Evening, August 14, 2010 - The THE MEL MARTIN BAND at The San Jose Fairmount 8:30-11:30PM
featuring Art Khu - piano, John Schifflet - bass and Akira Tana - drums - 170 South Market Street, San Jose, California 95113 TOLL FREE: 1(866) 540-4493, TEL (408) 998-1900

A very special anti-festival gig! If you're at the SJ Festival and get bored with the music or hyperventilate with the crowds, come on over to the Fairmount and hear some REAL Jazz. We'll be hittin' hard!

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Sunday Afternoon, August 22, 2010 - THE MEL MARTIN ALL-STAR BIG BAND featuring specialguest vocalist Jamie Davis @ The Douglas Beach House, El Granada, CA 4-8PM (650) 726-4143 $35-40 info@bachddsoc.org Directions Tickets

This gig will mark the return of my big band, many new charts and the attitude: when the going gets tough...the tough get bigger! Also, this is the first time the big band has appeared at the famed Bach venue which I have been playing at for nearly 40 years. I started when I was five. NOT TO BE MISSED!

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Wednesday Afternoon, September 15 -THE MEL MARTIN BAND@The Oakland City Center - 12th St. Oakland City Center Station is in the heart of Downtown Oakland, near historic Old Oakland and Oakland's Chinatown. Free Concert Directions featuring Brad Buethe - guitar, Robb Fisher - bass and Jeff Marrs - drums.

We'll be playing music from our recent CD "Where The Warm Winds Blow."

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Saturday Afternoon, September 18, 2010 - MEL MARTIN @ The Hot Springs Jazz Festival - Schedule

Special Guests include Scott Whitfield, Rufus Reida and Paul Shaw.

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Wednesday Afternoon, September 22, 2010 - Mel Martin Masterclass at The University of Missourri @ Kansas City Conservatory. 3:30-5PM Kansas City, MO 64110 • (816) 235-1000

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Tuesday Evening, October 5, 2010 - THE MEL MARTIN ALL-STAR BIG BAND @ YOSHI'S - Oakland - 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square, Oakland, CA 94607 Phone: 510.238.9200 8&10PM $14-20

Mel Martin's saxophone tips @ Rico Stage

George Cables' Benefit@Yoshi's 12/8/07 also here

Benny Carter Tribute @ Dizzy's 10/15/07

Dizzy's 8/ 06

Hotel Kitano, 7/07

BC,Tribute 8/07

Marin IJ Article, 7/07

Breaking News: Mel Martin named among top three flutists of 2007 in Arnaldo DeSouteiro's poll in Tribuna da imprensa along with Hubert Laws and Frank Wess. Also here

Review: Jazz.com, Audiophile Edition

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