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Jazz Notes

Opening acts and main-stage headliners THE SAN JOSE Jazz Festival takes over downtown San Jose Aug. 7­10. Most of the concerts are free. The schedule below covers the opening-day acts and the main-stage performers. For information, call 408/288-7557 or see the San Jose Jazz Society's Web site for complete list performers, times and stages. Thursday Chris Botti: 5pm in Plaza de Cesar Chavez Signal Fire: 7:30pm in the Pavilion Toledo: 8pm at Gordon Biersch Friday Norman Connors: 9 and 11pm at Club Ibex; $20; 408/971-4239 Bobby Matos' Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble: 5:30pm on the Main Stage in Plaza de Cesar Chavez Pele Juju: 7:30pm on the Main Stage Saturday On the Main Stage: Lifescan Diversity Choir: 11am B Sharp: noon Nueva Manteca: 2pm Charles Brown: 4pm Spyro Gyra: 6pm Sunday On the Main Stage: Common Unity, gospel: 11am Brad Mehldau Trio: noon Jimmy McGriff and Hank Crawford Quartet: 2pm Nestor Torres, jazz flutist: 4pm Dianne Reeves: 6pm. [ Metro | Metroactive Central | Archives ]