By Steve Tyler

Marvin Stamm

Trumpeter Marvin Stamm and pianist Bill Mays will be the featured guest artists at this year’s 25th annual Herb Patnoe Memorial Jazz Festival 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Homestead High School Theater, 21370 Homestead Road in Cupertino.

Stamm and Mays will appear with the De Anza College Daddios Jazz Ensembles and the Homestead High School jazz band, directed by John Burn.

This year’s festival will feature high school jazz bands including those of Mountain View and Los Altos High Schools in afternoon performances and clinics with Stamm and Mays. Outstanding student soloists will be invited to perform onstage with Stamm, Mays and the Daddios during the evening concert.

Throughout his career, Stamm has been praised for both his art and craft of trumpet playing. Jazz critic Leonard Feather said, “Mr. Stamm is an accomplished performer whose technical skill is used as a means to stimulating original ends.”

Stamm performs both as a soloist and with symphonies. He also works in jazz education at universities and high schools as a performer, clinician and mentor, perpetuating jazz traditions.

Pianist, composer and arranger Mays, a Northern California native, was known as L.A.’s first-call pianist for singers such as Sarah Vaughan, Dionne Warwick, Anita O’Day, Al Jarreau and Frank Sinatra.

De Anza’s annual jazz festival is held in memory of Dr. Herb Patnoe, who established the Foothill-De Anza Community College District jazz program and the Daddios in the 1960s. The De Anza College Herb Patnoe Scholarship Fund and Homestead High School’s Music Boosters are co-sponsoring the concert.

Tickets are $18 in advance and $23 at the door. Advance tickets may be purchased by visiting

www.faculty.deanza.edu/tylersteve.

For further information, call (408) 864-8999, ext. 3450.

Steve Tyler is a jazz instructor at De Anza College. He directs the De Anza Daddios Evening Jazz Ensembles.