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Rancho Bernardo jazz concert series starts Oct. 14 at library

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The new season of Jazz Concerts at the Rancho Bernardo Library is kicking off on Wednesday with a show by Pete Deluke and the Mellotones.

This will be the third series of concerts, which are hosted by Donald Bunin, Rancho Bernardo Friends of the Library volunteer and a jazz musician himself.

All concerts are held from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the library’s second floor Community Room, 17110 Bernardo Center Drive.

The concerts are free and open to the public; children age 7 and up may attend with a parent or guardian. Free-will donations are accepted and are used to pay the performing musicians.

“The objective of the concerts is to bring top San Diego area jazz performers to the residents of the Rancho Bernardo-Poway area well as fans from elsewhere and to add as an additional form of musical entertainment to the ten classical concerts performed under the direction of Harvey Levine, Concerts and Finance Committee chairman,” said Bunin in a press release.

The first concert of the series will be Wednesday, Oct. 14 and will feature Pete Deluke and the Mellotones.

This nine-piece band has been performing in San Diego for 30 years, and is devoted to arrangements of Duke Ellington and Bill Strayhorn compositions.

On Dec. 2, the Rob Thorsen Quartet will perform arrangements of classic jazz and Latin, as well as original music. Thorsen is one of Southern California’s leading jazz bassists and is a band leader and sideman as well as a modern jazz composer.

The series will continue in 2016 with The Joshua White Trio, performing on Feb. 10. The group is led by Joshua White, a young modern jazz pianist who will be performing at the library following a European tour with a New York-based group.

Peter Sprague will return yet again for his third concert in the jazz series on March 9. Sprague will be joined by his “Pass the Drum” Brazilian Jazz Septet.

On April 11, John Hall and the Chicago Six will perform. This is a long standing San Diego sextet that plays exciting jazz from the swing era under the direction of Hall.

Finishing up the concert series will be the Bill Cabellero Quintet on May 9 performing Afro-Cuban Latin jazz.

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