...RAY Zepeda WITH JAMAEL DANA DEAN 

RAY Zepeda WITH JAMAEL DANA DEAN
Since beginning his professional career playing lead alto in various big bands at the age of 15, his musical palette has expanded to include everything from serious composition to Latin jazz to punk rock. This is his second appearance at the Bakersfield Jazz Festival, having last performed on the Main Stage in 2010 with David Baron Stevens.

Zepeda holds the Master of Music in Jazz Studies from USC [Saxophone studies with Bob Sheppard (Steely Dan, Chick Corea, Mike Stern)] and the Bachelor of Science from MIT where he studied Composition with Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Grant-winning composer, John Harbison.