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...f Cal State Northridge, Dr. [[David W. Tucker]], the first director of the UC Jazz Ensembles, offered to organize and present the festival under its new ...rformance venues included Zellerbach Auditorium and Pauley Ballroom on the UC Berkeley campus. Best Music Company of Oakland provided a scholarship awar

==Early Years at UC Berkeley and Yerkes== ...sons were preschoolers, during a summer at the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains in west Texas; during a community picnic he spent hours wading wi

...Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival]]. At least on one occasion he returned to UC Berkeley to solo with the [[University of California Jazz Ensembles]] under In July 2011, he played a tribute to [[Miles Davis]] at the [[Prague Castle]], hosted by the Czech President, [[Václav Klaus]