About Mammoth JazzFest 2025
Our Mission
Event Director Duane Benjamin
Event Director Duane Benjamin
At Mammoth JAZZfest 2025, we strive to provide a unique and unforgettable experience for all attendees. Our mission is to bring together like-minded individuals to celebrate and enjoy the best of what our event has to offer. MUSIC and FUN!
Event Director Duane Benjamin
Event Director Duane Benjamin
Event Director Duane Benjamin
Mammoth JazzFest has been a staple event in the community for over a decade. Our event has grown year after year and we are proud to have become one of the biggest and most popular events in the region, all due to our Musical Director,
Duane Benjamin. He is an accomplished Musician, Orchestrator and Arranger. For over 30 years he has ma
Mammoth JazzFest has been a staple event in the community for over a decade. Our event has grown year after year and we are proud to have become one of the biggest and most popular events in the region, all due to our Musical Director,
Duane Benjamin. He is an accomplished Musician, Orchestrator and Arranger. For over 30 years he has made a successful living playing trombone, electric bass, and arranging “clean, easy to read charts” for industry legends and every musician alike.
His orchestrations were featured regularly on FOX Television’s American Idol and various musical theater plays in the LA area! He has also arranged and orchestrated for NBC’s The Singing Bee as well as The Voice. On BETS Gospel Celebration , he has orchestrated performances for artists like Keyshia Cole, Jill Scott, Maxwell, Alexander Hamilton, and legendary soul singer Al Green.
“Ben-jamin”, as he is affectionately known, picked up the trombone at the age of 8 and never put it down. He has performed and recorded with jazz greats like the Count Basie Orchestra, Stanley Clark, The Gerald Wilson Orchestra and The Clayton Hamilton Orchestra, not to mention contemporary legends like BTS, Justin Timberlake, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Earth Wind & Fire, Jamiroquai, Gladys Knight, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Four Tops, rock guitarist Steve Vai, Kirk Franklin and many more.
Mammoth JazzFest is grateful every day to have this caliber of Musician and Director, and our very good friend.
Our Team
Event Director Duane Benjamin
Our Team
Our team is made up of passionate and dedicated individuals who love music, it's you, our attendees!
Thank you all from the Mammoth JAZZfest 2025 team!
Event Schedule
Event Schedule
FRIDAY
Wine Walk & Live Jazz, all genres
4:30 – 9:45 Wine Walk or earlier when wine runs out.
Bar open
Food trucks and retail vendors
4:00 Event Plaza bar opens for wine walk glass sales.
Friday
4:30-5:15 Eddy Evans sets the mood with the saxophone in the bar area
5:15-6:00 Mammoth High School Jazz Band...DIRECTOR Michael Hammers
6:15-7:15 UCLA Gluck Global Jazz ALL-STARS
7:30-8:30 Salsa Bros. Featuring Sandy Stein, Salsa
8:45-9:45 Ed Wynne Funk Project, Funk Jazz
Saturday
Jazz Music, all genres
Bar open
Food trucks and retail vendors
4 PM-10 PM
4:30-5 PM Eddy Evans
5:15 UCLA Gluck Global Jazz ALL-STARS
6:30-7:15 UnOfficial Slam Band
8:30-9:45 NIGHT IN VEGAS starring Miss Mel Collins &
The D-Ben Jamming Band
Bar open
Food trucks and retail vendors
REMEMBER..... music is free, no ticket needed come and enjoy food,drinks,art, jewelry and many more fabulous vendors at the event.
Come out and support Jazz in Mammoth. Please visit our wine walk, Friday and support our bar so we may continue to bring you World Class Jazz and and give a yearly music scholarship to a graduating senior at Mammoth High.