Dos Pueblos High School’s jazz competition adds a festival evening

Saxophonist and USC professor Bob Mintzer performs with Dos Pueblos High School's jazz band in Saturday's Jazz Festival. KENNETH SONG/NEWS-PRESS
Saxophonist and USC professor Bob Mintzer performs with Dos Pueblos High School’s jazz band in Saturday’s Jazz Festival.
KENNETH SONG/NEWS-PRESS

With an evening temperature warm enough to fool everybody into thinking it was summer, Dos Pueblos High’s evening of big bands, “Jazz in Paradise,” lived up to its name.

Although this annual competition of high school bands has been going on for 46 years, 2015 marked a first, with its full evening concert and with college division bands playing in a festival-style atmosphere.

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