October 10, 2022, Santa Rosa - The Music Department of Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) will present a jazz concert by the Bennett Friedman Quartet on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 PM in Newman Auditorium on the Santa Rosa campus.  The concert will feature Guitarist Randy Vincent, bassist Peter Barshay, and drummer Kendrick Freeman.

General Admission to the event is $15, $10 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 Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and others.

Randy Vincent has been teaching jazz guitar at Sonoma State University since 1981.  He has performed with Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, and Dizzy Gillespie, and has authored six books on jazz guitar, published by Sher Music Co.

Peter Barshay has played bass with Milt Jackson, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, and many other jazz greats.  He produced Pit of Fashion, an album that showcases his compositions.

Kendrick Freeman has a background in both drum set and hand drums, having studied with American artists and musicians from Ghana, Congo, and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on the music of Haiti. He leads a jazz ensemble at Sonoma State University.

Saxophonist Bennett Friedman has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, the Monterey Bay Blues Festival, and the Russian River Jazz Festival.  He has been featured as a soloist with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole, and Marvin Gaye. Friedman has taught Jazz Studies at Santa Rosa Junior College since 1977.  He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant for jazz composition.

For further information, please call 527-4255 or email bfriedman@santarosa.edu.