In retrospect, it’s surprising that it took 26 Super Bowls for people to realize the marketing potential a 12-minute show with an audience that is now estimated to be 100 million people — the single biggest audience for any musical performance on Earth. As the Stones, McCartney, Gaga and others have learned, it might be the best possible way to promote an upcoming tour. The turning point came on Jan. 31, 1993, with Super Bowl XXVII, when Michael Jackson stood silently at center-stage for what seemed like an eternity before launching into an almost definitely lip-synched medley of “Why You Wanna Trip on Me,” “Jam,” “Billie Jean,” “Black or White” and, with a choir of 3,500 L.A. school kids singing along to “Heal the World.” It was a long way from 1967, when the first Super Bowl, still inelegantly called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before a crowd of 61,946 — far less than the 75,144 capacity — with a top ticket price of $12. The halftime entertainment consisted of New Orleans horn player Al Hirt and the marching bands from University of Arizona and Grambling State University.
As he watched the morning parade pass, Jeff Ronner of Oakland said he tries to make it to the Stroll every year to wedding flats, ivory, rose, blush, champagne, gold, ballet flats, bridal shoes, lace flats, ballet slippers, flower girl, vintag support the “small town effort.”, “It’s a social and political tradition that’s still alive here and it’s always refreshing to see,” Ronner said, “People don’t talk to each other anymore, so it’s great to see this kind of community involvement.”, Albany resident Michael Sukhov took the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine and get to know neighbors he’d never met..
San Jose Jazz executive director Brendan Rawson says “it’s been a lot of fun” overseeing his second festival since officially taking SJJ’s top spot last year after his previous stint as director of cultural participation with 1stACT Silicon Valley. “We are coming up on our 25th year,” he said about Summer Fest, which until 2011 was billed as the San Jose Jazz Festival. “We wanted to take the opportunity to gauge how it works well and look for ways to improve. One of the first was to make it more of a walkable experience, because we present so much.”.
The women of Cuban jazz: Canadian soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett has spent the wedding flats, ivory, rose, blush, champagne, gold, ballet flats, bridal shoes, lace flats, ballet slippers, flower girl, vintag past two decades introducing brilliant young Cuban musicians to audiences outside their cloistered homeland, A few years back she realized a new generation of women players were coming into their own, which led to the creation of Maqueque, a high-octane ensemble that’s already served as a launching pad for vocalist Daymé Arocena, The sextet’s latest lineup, which makes its only California appearance July 23 at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, features drummer Yissy Garcia, pianist Dánae Olano, percussionist Magdelys Savigne, bassist Celia Jiménez, and violinist Elizabeth Rodriguez. Details: 7 p.m.; $24/$28; 510-644-2020, www.thefreight.org.— Andrew Gilbert, Correspondent..
Details: 8 p.m.; $39.50-$45; 800-745-3000, www.apeconcerts.com. 4 LIVERMORE-AMADOR SYMPHONY: Lara Webber, a conductor who has won kudos during stints with the Baltimore Symphony, Charleston (S.C.) Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Debut Orchestra, lives in Livermore these days, so it’s only natural that she guest-conduct the orchestra’s performance on May 12. On the program are Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, selections from Spanish composer’s Manuel de Falla’s “El Sombrero de Tres Picos” (“The Three-Cornered Hat”) and César Franck’s Symphony in D minor.
