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Jazz Mafia creator Adam Theis will bring new band Subharmonic to San Jose Jazz Festival

Adam Theis is the Jazz Mafia guy, always a little bit different. Watch him on YouTube wailing on his trombone — while wake surfing on Lake Sonoma. Or directing his band Supertaster, while backing Stevie Wonder in a packed San Francisco lounge. And then marshaling his troops onstage at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre: 55 rappers, singers and instrumentalists, performing one of his hip-hop symphonies...

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Renegade really likes sharing the stage

Call Adam Theis crazy. Tell him he’s a wild-eyed dreamer, a mad man heading for a Greek-scale financial meltdown. The trombonist has heard it all before, but as the composer and driving force behind the Jazz Mafia’s epic “Brass, Bows and Beats’’ Theis is laughing last...

READ MORE: http://archive.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/05/23/jazz_mafias_adam_theis_really_likes_sharing_the_stage/