San Jose Jazz High School All Stars with Lilan Kane at Hammer Theatre Center

Hammer Theatre Center rounds out July with San Jose Jazzs High School All Stars, giving Bay Area audiences a sneak peek at the next generation of jazz stars. A regional, audition-based, advanced music program, San Jose Jazzs High School All Stars is designed to help students achieve master of improvisation techniques while advancing their knowledge of music theory, arranging, composition, performance, and jazz history. The talented line-up of young musicians will be joined by special guest Lilan Kane, a soul and jazz vocalist based in Oakland, California. She has sold out notable Bay Area jazz venues, including Yoshis and the SFJAZZ Center, sung with the Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra, and opened for Hall & Oates, Lenny Williams, Fred Hughes, The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Sharon Jones, Trombone Shorty, and Morgan James.