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For Immediate Release
Local Jazz Trumpet Artist Pete Estabrook will be performing with his New Acoustic Jazz Quartet in Santa Rosa: Old Courthouse Square on November 3rd from 5:30-7:30 pm (free event-all ages welcome).
Pete's quartet plays straight-ahead, latin, and soul jazz associated with blue-note artists of the 1960's in the authentic style of the original recordings. This group performs the music of the blue-note masters from the past and present. The upcoming gig will feature tunes written by Wayne Shorter.
Pete Estabrook is a graduate of and scholarship recipient at both Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) and California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles, CA) where he received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Jazz Studies. While at Cal-Arts, he studied jazz trumpet with Yamaha Trumpet Artist and Clinician Bobby Shew (Formerly with Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Horace Silver, etc.). Pete's jazz trumpet solo transcriptions of Miles Davis were recently published with the Concord Music Group 2006 re-release of the classic 50's Prestige sessions. Under the direction of James Newton (Downbeat Poll Winner-Jazz Flute), Pete transcribed and arranged portions of Ellington's Queen's Suite which was performed in 1991 by the Danish National Radio Orchestra. As a post-graduate student, he was invited by Charlie Haden to appear as a featured soloist in L. A. performances of both his original Grammy Award winning suites: "Liberation Music Orchestra" and the "Ballad of the Fallen".
Further, Pete has performed with and accompanied a variety of world-class jazz artists including: Albert Heath, Charlie Haden, James Newton, Red Calendar, Carl Fontana, Pete Cristlieb, Bruce Foreman, Ernie Watts, Tom Scott, and Bobby Shew. In September of 2006, he performed in an SSU Faculty Concert (featuring the music of Wayne Shorter) with bay-area jazz artists Mel Graves, Babatunde Lea, John Simon, Charlie McCarthy, and Randy Vincent. As a featured soloist and lead player, Pete has also traveled with Carnival, Holland America, and Princess cruise lines.
Currently, Pete serves as the Studio Trumpet Instructor and Jazz Improvisation Instructor at Sonoma State University. He is also an Adjunct Jazz instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College where he has taught Big Band, Jazz Combos, Jazz/Pop Theory, Jazz Improvisation, and Jazz Appreciation.
Additionally, Pete has been the Racetrack Bugler on the Northern California Summer Fair circuit for the past 20 years. He performs the "First Call" (also known as the "Call to Post") prior to each race at the Sonoma County, Solano County, San Joaquin County, Alameda County, Humbolt County, and Sacramento State Fairs.
As an active professional musician for 26 years (playing his first professional gig at age 15), Pete represents the ideal of "local boy making good". Though born in Houston, Texas, he has lived in Santa Rosa for 36 years and has brought what he has learned in both Boston and Los Angeles to enrich Sonoma County's musical environment.
"One of the Bay
Area's Top Acts"-Sonoma County Fair Voice
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